WORKSHIFTER - Dispatches from the New Executive Frontier

So many of you come to us and to our blog because you are thinking about making a major change in your life and you are looking for some support.  Well to that end, I would like to recommend a great book that I just completed called Changing Lanes by Jane Jelenko and Susan Marshall.  It really is, as they say, a road map to midlife renewal.  Baby Boomers will love it because it creatively uses lots of songs that we all remember from the 70's...it will bring back lots of great memories.  But the book chronicles a number of people who made significant changes in their life and you can really experience some of it through them.  It gives you a lot to think about when it comes to your own journey.  Let me share some of the beginning of the book to tempt you.

"What do we want to be when we grow up?  As young children, the answer comes easily; a fireman, a policeman, a veterinarian or an accountant.....as teenagers, the questions seems ridiculous and irrelevant....most of us resolve the dilemma by graduating and taking a job that seems to be the best opportunity at the time.  We enjoy the challenges and through hard work and focus, we get promoted and grow.  Then, through what is best described as a series of accidents, we get offered opportunities within our companies or outside that seem challenging and we take them.  At some point, we expect to retire and hope the question never has to be asked again."

Boy....doesn't that resonate with most of you?  But most of us don't want traditional retirement.  Instead, we want to reinvent ourselves in some way.  If that sounds like you, and you want to experience the changes that some really terrific and interesting people made, I hope you will read this book.  I know you'll enjoy it as much as I did.  You can read more about Changing Lanes through their website at http://www.aguidetochanginglanes.com/. To purchase the book, you may go through your favorite dealer or the publisher at http://www.radompress.com.