The Well-Being Bucket List: 29 Mindful Choices for Older Adults

by William Keiper, Steve Chandler

With The Well-Being Bucket List, you don't have to travel, spend money, or risk your safety. This bucket-list is one of mindful choices for improved well-being, encompassing body, mind, and spirit. Each is available to everyone and is immediately accessible. If you embrace even ONE of these choices, your life can be better and happier. Once made, these choices are of the enduring kind— ones that can change your life forever .

Each of the choices is explored through a conversation between good friends and veteran authors Steve Chandler and Will Keiper. Each chapter concludes with a suggestion that could help you thrive as an older adult (or just someone wanting to build a better life). Here is one example. In Conversation Three, Steve and Will discuss some of the central myths of aging and how to reframe them. They also explore optimism and "learned helplessness," and offer their insights into choosing ownership or victimhood as your go-to starting position. The conversation concludes with this suggestion for a Mindful "I choose optimism and ownership as my pragmatic, enabling, and repeatable system of thought for living into my future." The book includes 29 of these kinds of explorations and Mindful Choices.

If you are curious about continuing to make mindful choices for your best well-being, or are feeling alone or left behind—you are invited, encouraged, and challenged to consider this thoughtfully compiled "bucket list." The To-Do's on this list are free (and freeing), and travel is completely optional. They are for anyone transiting the bucket list years—the last third or quarter of life—though they are open and applicable to people of all ages seeking a higher level of mindfulness and well-being.

As we get older, it can get easier to shrink our world. This book is the antidote, giving us permission to pay less attention to numerical age and focus more on living in a life-affirming way. After reading this book, you will come away with what you need to successfully pursue a higher state of well-being, no matter what age you seem to be. The authors successfully prove that rather than a time of decline, decay, and a move to the sidelines—our senior years are a prime opportunity to make new choices for creating the optimal "you" of your entire lifetime.

. . ."'We're all going to die and if we're lucky, get old first,' is not a common starting point for a self-help book, but in the hands of Steve Chandler and Will Keiper, it leads to a whole new way of thinking about bucket lists and a whole heck of a lot of new and exciting possibilities for the rest of what's left of our lives." #michaelneill Author of The Inside-Out The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

"It is rare to read something that, in plain language, blends a no-holds-barred look at the real challenges of living in the world today, with the pragmatic and Spiritual opportunities available to salve them. This is a must-read book for anyone seeking greater well-being in their life—all of us." ~ Dr. Ron Hulnick, President, University of Santa Monica - Pioneer and worldwide leade

278 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2021

About the author

William Keiper is an award-winning author of creative nonfiction. He is committed to helping individuals and businesses do things differently as the result of seeing things differently.

He is the author of Untethered Aging, Cyber Crisis – It’s Personal Now; Life Expectancy – It’s Never Too Late to Change Your Game; and The Power of Urgency. He has also published a series of short political essays, Amazon for President; Apple for President and Walmart for President.

His writing and books have received numerous literary awards, including Best Current Events Book 2017 (Cyber Crisis) by the National Indie Excellence Awards committee:

WINNER - NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS - Best Current Events Book 2017 (Cyber Crisis)
WINNER - WORLD BOOK AWARDS - Best Self-Help Book & Best Business Motivational Book 2012 (Life Expectancy)
WINNER - THE USA BEST BOOK AWARDS - Best New Non-Fiction Book 2012 (Life Expectancy)
WINNER - NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS - Best Personal Growth Book 2014 (Life Expectancy)
WINNER - NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL - Best eBook (all categories, fiction and non-fiction) 2012 (Life Expectancy)
WINNER - WORLD BOOK AWARDS - Best Current Events Book & Best Political/Social Book 2012 (Apple for President)
WINNER - PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL - Best eBook (all categories, fiction and non-fiction) 2012 (Life Expectancy)
WINNER - BOOK OF THE YEAR [MIND] - LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS 2012 (Apple for President)
SILVER WINNER - NONFICTION BOOK AWARDS 2017 (Cyber Crisis)
FINALIST - NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS - Best Social Media Book 2017 (Cyber Crisis)
FINALIST - NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS - Best Non-Fiction e-Book 2017 (Cyber Crisis)
FINALIST - FOREWORD INDIES BOOK AWARDS - Best Self-Help Book 2017 (Cyber Crisis)
FINALIST - NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS - Best Motivational Book (The Power of Urgency) & Best Book on Aging 2014 (Life Expectancy)
FINALIST - NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS - Best Current Events/Social Change Book 2012 (Apple for President)
FINALIST - THE USA BEST BOOK AWARDS - Best New Non-Fiction eBook (Life Expectancy) & Best Current Events Book 2012 (Apple for President)
FINALIST - THE USA BEST BOOKS AWARDS - Best Business Motivational Book (The Power of Urgency) & Best Current Events Book (Walmart for President) & Best Aging/50+ Book 2013 (Life Expectancy)