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“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
― Richard Leider

“Reflect: A call to pause before you start the journey and then at various steps along the way, understanding that change and choice occur from the inside out. Connect: A step where you request feedback and counsel from trusted friends and guides, recognizing that isolation is fatal—no one should make this journey alone. Explore: A beginning of the journey of discovery, a step of testing different possibilities, both inside and out, in the knowledge that curiosity and courage are essential to finding the way forward. Choose: A narrowing of options in which you focus on your priorities and do both a deeper dive and a reality check, exploring a smaller number of choices to see which fit your emerging sense of what’s right for you. Repack: A step of deciding what’s essential for the road ahead—what to let go of and what to keep, how to lighten your load, both tangible and intangible, for the new way that is opening up. Act: A first step toward making the possibilities real in the recognition that taking action doesn’t drain energy, it releases energy through the optimism that comes with choice, curiosity, and courage.”
― Richard J. Leider, Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.”
― Richard Leider

“reimagining your life is going to be messy.”
― Richard J. Leider, Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

“A life purpose is what I’m meant to do and be while I’m here on the earth.”
― Richard J. Leider, The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better

“People with a sense of purpose have learned to let life question them and have moved the focus of their attention and concern away from themselves to others. Purpose, then, is not a job or a role or a goal. It is the belief that our lives, our part in the whole of things, truly matters. Having a profound sense of who we are, where we came from, and where we’re going, we choose to believe that mattering matters. It is thus a mindset—a choice. It is first and foremost the choice to choose ”life” despite the circumstances we find ourselves in. It is the choice to bring who we are—our gifts and energies—to whatever we are doing. Purpose is a cradle-to-grave, 24/7, moment-to-moment choice in our daily lives.”
― Richard J. Leider, The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better

“pushed by pain or pulled by possibility.”
― Richard J. Leider, Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

“While the roles we play in life—parent, child, friend, author, coach, teacher, you name it—are important, they are not our life’s purpose. Purpose is not a role or a goal; it is an aim and a mindset. To awaken, to grow, to continually give, and to make a difference to others—that’s why we are here. It’s who we bring to what we do.”
― Richard J. Leider, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging

“Identity is at the heart of repacking.”
― Richard J. Leider, Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

“I’m not fearful about aging,” admits Richard, “I’m fearful about suffering. I’m also fearful about something happening to my wife, Sally, or to my children, Andrew and Greta, or to their families, or to my close friends. There’s also now the fear about whether I’ll be ready to end it peacefully when the end comes. I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to deal with my final days consciously; the prospect of failing to do that, however, is frightening.”
― Richard J. Leider, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging

“Repacking is all about the why; it’s”
― Richard J. Leider, Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

“So don’t confuse repacking with merely simplifying.”
― Richard J. Leider, Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

“about the magic longevity pill of purpose? To age well also requires that we exercise our sense of purpose. And that”
― Richard J. Leider, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging

“Purpose is the quality we chose to shape our lives around.”
― Richard J. Leider

“Reflection opens up hope.”
― Richard J. Leider, Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities