Revised and updated: The classic guide to "unpacking" your physical, emotional, and intellectual baggage and "repacking" for the journey ahead. Richard Leider and David Shapiro define the good life as “living in the place you belong, with the people you love, doing the right work, on purpose.” But with longer lifespans, technological advancements, and economic shifts, the particulars of this definition are bound to change over time—which mean most of us will need to periodically reimagine our lives.
In this wise and practical guide, Leider and Shapiro help you weigh all that you're carrying, leverage what helps you live well, and let go of those burdens that merely weigh you down. This third edition has been revised with new stories and practices to help you repack your four critical “bags” (place, relationship, work, and purpose); identify your gifts, passions, and values; and plan your journey, no matter where you are in life.
The first and second editions of Repacking Your Bags helped people develop their own unique vision of the good life and take practical steps at home and at work to make sense of their lives and live in an authentically meaningful way. Written as a travel guide it helped people to put together a "trip checklist" that provided the elements of the good life: work, love, place, and purpose.
But Leider and Shapiro came to realize that repacking is not something we do once or twice in reaction to a sense of disillusionment or frustration in our lives. Developing one's own vision of the good life is a matter of constant and evolving choice, as the inevitable shifts and surprises life has to offer continually unfold before us. With each step along the way, it remains necessary to re-examine what has brought us here, to continue asking ourselves if the choices that have sustained us so far are continuing to do so - or if they're just weighing us down.
This edition has been thoroughly revised to make it applicable for readers today. The changes include:
- Refocused message on the new life and work realities and the survival skills required to succeed
- More practices and experiences for "lightening your load."
- Fresh new stories of "people just like me", the reader.
- A new "Repacking Journal"
- Addition of Leider's immensely popular Calling Cards exercise for discovering your gifts, passions and values, with access to a Calling Cards online profile
Now Available
The Repacking Journal App (available on the Apple App Store and iTunes for the iPad (optimized for larger tablet screen size) and on the iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices, and on Google Play for the Android smartphones) is a helpful and fun way to keep track of where you are on your life journey. It includes a 30-question Good Life Inventory with auto scoring and interpretation, covering themes such as work, people, place, and purpose. The app also includes thoughtful questions to help repack, a life travel check-list, and repacking resources. All answers are saved in the app and can be updated as often as you wish. The Repacking Journal App is a perfect way to keep on the Good Life track and to practice repacking your bags and on a regular basis.
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