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Launch Your Encore: Finding Adventure and Purpose Later in Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

In 2011, the first of the 76 million baby boomers--nearly a quarter of the US population--began turning 65. Every day for the next fifteen years, over ten thousand of them will celebrate that birthday. And for the first time in history, this generation will enjoy many years post-career pursing meaning and purpose outside of traditional retirement. What will they do with that time? One thing is...

I drilled a bit deeper, asking her the key to her happiness in her sunset years. “I make sure I have a lot of friends a lot younger than me, like you, Hans,” she said. “Secondly, I make myself get up, dressed, and out the door as much as possible, with a social life.” Jeanelle told me she has a lady who shows up every morning at 8:15 to help her get dressed, and it takes an hour. “Many people when they get older just quit trying. They stay inside and wither and die,” she said. So her two keys to