BooksLearningPeopleApril 19, 20255And Now For Something Different: How to Grow Old Well!

Those of you who’ve been with me for awhile are prob­a­bly aware of my books, and may have even read or lis­tened to some of them. Writ­ing books is a joy for me, and I’m always hope­ful that what I offer will be help­ful to peo­ple.  If you’re not famil­iar with my pre­vi­ous books, you can  check them out here or here. Until now, I’ve focused on lead­er­ship, learn­ing, and change.

Well, I’ve Done It Again!

My sixth book is com­ing out in June, but for this one I’ve turned my atten­tion in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion.  As you may know, I’m always try­ing a to crack a code when I write a book, and with this book the code I’m try­ing to crack is how to grow old well.  It’s called The New Old: Craft­ing your Best Lat­er Life, and rather than offer­ing spe­cif­ic rec­om­men­da­tions about what to eat, where to live, how to exer­cise — I offer 3 key prin­ci­ples for decid­ing who you most want to be as an old­er per­son and cre­at­ing the ‘third act’ of life that you most want:

• Be the Boss of Your Life: Cre­ate a com­pelling vision for your future and then take the steps and build the sup­port sys­tem to help you achieve it.
• Mas­ter Your Mind­set: Trans­form how you talk to your­self about aging, and build ski­ils of mind­ful­ness and grat­i­tude that research shows can dra­mat­i­cal­ly improve both qual­i­ty and length of life.
• Get Good at Change: Learn to thrive in the uncer­tain parts of life’s tran­si­tions with grace, with­out resent­ment, and con­tin­u­ing to explore new possibilities.

Audiobook in the Can

Over the past two days I record­ed The New Old audio­book in a stu­dio in Brook­lyn (that’s me get­ting ready to record in the pho­to above). The won­der­ful stu­dio own­er, Stephen, gave me the best pos­si­ble com­pli­ment at the end of the ses­sion. He said, “I def­i­nite­ly need to get a copy of this book for my par­ents!”  That made me so hap­py; I hope this book can be help­ful to any­one who wants to fig­ure out how to grow old well.

Stay Tuned

I’ll be blog­ging a lot about the book and what’s hap­pen­ing with it over the next cou­ple of months.  Please don’t hes­i­tate to weigh in, ask ques­tions, tell me what you’d like to know about it — or start any con­ver­sa­tion you’d like about how to have a pur­pose­ful and fas­ci­nat­ing lat­er life.