What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up?: Starting the Next Chapter of Your Life

by Dorothy Cantor, Andrea Thompson

Overview

Renowned psychologist Dorothy Cantor thoughtfully shows how to create an exciting future in this road map for anyone in middle or retirement age.

Later life can be richly fulfilling, intensely satisfying and even marked by a newfound attitude toward life. Cantor's work proves that there is more to life after work than material security. She knows what it takes for us to keep growing and presents a dynamic plan for exploring our past and present in order to discover how best to design the years ahead. Cantor supplies practical tools for taking an inventory of our major decisions, role models, wishes, disappointments, and talents. Next she shows how to pull all of the information together and make a plan for the next chunk of life - the time when we can enjoy the greatest freedom, when all the choices are up to us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316127981
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	01/03/2002
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	XI
1.	The Capacity to Grow, the Need to Choose: An Introduction	3
2.	Retirement Dreams, Job Realities	20
	What I Will be Doing When I Am No Longer Spending Most of My Time At the Work I Am Doing Now
	My Job Realities--Fifteen Good Things (Besides Money) I Get from My Job
3.	Well-Being and the American Adult: What Is It? Who Has It?	47
	The Good Life, Well Lived
	Six Dimensions of Adult Well-Being
	On the Job, After the Job: Well-Being or Burnout
	Purposeful Activity, Serious Leisure, and the Power of Flow
	Finding the Fit: Four Stories
4.	From "I'm Going to be an Astronaut" to "I've Got to Pick A Major": Preparing for the "Real World"	69
	What I First Longed to Be When I Grew Up
	My Obsessions and Reigning Passions
	Lessons on the Home Front
	My Heroes, My Favorite or Most Unforgettable People
	College Days: The Pluses and the Minuses
5.	From Getting a Job to Having Arrived: The World of Work	106
	My First Job--What and Why
	My Career-Building Years: Steps, Turning Points, and Transitions
	What I Loved, What I Hated; What I Was Good At, What I Was Not Good At
6.	Reflecting: The View from the Great Plateau	141
	The Balancing Act: My Work, My Family, and the Rest
	My Success Equation
7.	What I Want to do When I Grow Up: A Plan for the Rest of the Story	159
	What I Want, What I Need: The Ten Motivators
	How I'll Get There, What Might Stop Me: The Ten Activators
	My Retirement Dreams, Revisited
8.	Getting Started, Again	213
	Honeymooning
	Testing New Waters
	The Small Voice of "I Really Should ..."
	The Resistance Factor
	The Second Wind
	Goal Setting and the Good-Enough Factor
	A Touch of Inspiration
	Afterword	241
	Notes	247
	Index	251

What People are Saying About This

Bill Bradley

Dr. Cantor's calm and concrete suggestions ease the apprehension of change and help us be open to wonderful new experiences. In effect, she dares us to dream and to live our dreams.
— (Bill Bradley, former U.S. senator)

Norine G. Johnson

A remarkable, on-the-mark book for anyone twenty-five to eighty-five who is planning a job change or contemplating retirement.
—(Norine G. Johnson, Ph.D., president, American Psychological Association)

Rosalynn Carter

Dorothy Cantor shows you the way to take stock of your life and map out plans for a future that will be meaningful and deeply satisfying.
— (Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady and author of Helping Yourself Help Others and Helping Someone with Mental Illness)