The average life expectancy in the United States today is nearly eighty-three years. If you're considering retirement or have recently retired, you have so much life still to live. You can choose to spend it sitting at home in your armchair, remote in hand, wondering why the golden years aren't so golden after all. Or you can embrace who you are and create a vibrant and rewarding lifestyle.
Odyssey: An Epic Journey is an eight-step program ready to lead you toward improving your quality of life-if you're ready and willing. Regardless of your economic, social, marital, or health status, this process can help you because it's about you.
Without judgment or presupposition, it guides you through a soul-searching exercise that examines who you are today-your living circumstances, health condition, priorities, values, and goals. You will do a SWIFT (strengths, weaknesses, influences, fears, and threats) assessment to reveal your self-image and the greatest influencers in your life. And finally, after this deconstruction, it will be time to reconstruct your life, with focus and determination.
It's time to embrace who you are and view life as a gift-a gift to appreciate and nurture each and every day.
About the Author: Bernard J. Connolly Jr. is sixty-six years old and retired from a career in law and the mortgage industry. After completing a twelve-step program and seeing the results in his own life, he understood how effective step programs are in positively influencing those who are willing to complete the work. He is a divorced father of four with three grandchildren. Connolly holds a bachelor's degree in history from College of the Holy Cross and a juris doctor degree from Drake University Law School.
James A. Baker is sixty-eight years old and retired from careers in the newspaper industry and the insurance and health care field. Baker is passionate about and heavily involved in improving the lives of the senior population. He earned his bachelor's degree in communications from the University of San Francisco.
Both Connolly and Baker currently live in Des Moines, Iowa.
