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5 Retirees Find Purpose in Their Second Act Careers

By Kerry Hannon — 2020

AARP recently spent time with five retirees to learn how their post-retirement work is bringing meaning to their lives and making a difference in the world, even as the coronavirus pandemic rages. Here are their stories.

Read on www.aarp.org

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With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life

A New Purpose, written by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., and Daniel J. Kadlec, redefines the American view of success, employment, retirement, and living a significant life.

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Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl’s riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his insightful exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of the worst adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946.

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When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough: The Search for a Life that Matters

With the same compassion and wisdom that powered his phenomenal bestseller When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner addresses a need that is universal and timeless—the wish for a meaningful life.

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Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal―Recovering from PTSD and Moral Injury through Meditation

Winner of a 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war—the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs.

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The Atheist’s Way: Living Well Without Gods

In The Atheist’s Way, Eric Maisel teaches you how to make rich personal meaning despite the absence of beneficent gods and the indifference of the universe to human concerns. Exploding the myth that there is any meaning to find or to seek, Dr.

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Life Purpose Boot Camp: The 8-Week Breakthrough Plan for Creating a Meaningful Life

As life gets busier and more complicated we crave something larger and more meaningful than just ticking another item off our to-do list. In the past, we’ve looked to religion or outside guidance for that sense of purpose, but today fewer people are fulfilled by traditional approaches to meaning.

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Everybody Dies, But Not Everybody Lives

The one thing you should know before you die.

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Sir Ken Robinson: Finding Your Element

In Finding Your Element, author and educator, Sir Ken Robinson, offers viewers a guide to finding and being in their element. He provides basic principles and tools to help guide them to do the work they enjoy with a sense of contentment and purpose.

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A New Purpose: Redefining Money, Family, Work, Retirement, and Success

Happiness in life is about more than what’s in your bank account or stock portfolio. Success is more than achieving power and respect. Each one of us has a responsibility for changing the world in a positive, significant, and enduring way—and the challenge is less daunting than you might think.

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Simon Sinek: How to Make Your Life a Success | Inc.

In this revealing interview, Simon Sinek chronicles the journey of finding his own “why,” how he came up with his ideas, and how he eventually became one of the country’s most recognized thought leaders.

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