The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life

by Ken Dychtwald, Daniel J. Kadlec

Do you want to stop worrying about money and start having more fun? Do you wish you had more time to spend with family and friends? Do you want to live the life you always envisioned? Then it's time for your Power Years. The Power Years is your step-by-step guide to repowerment and personal reinvention after forty. In this unique guidebook, world-renowned psychologist and leading authority on aging Ken Dychtwald and award-winning journalist Daniel J. Kadlec combine their decades of cutting-edge research and reporting to reveal how you can make the Power Years the best years of your life—by far. As we baby boomers move into the next stage of life, we now have the opportunity to experience a mold-shattering period of reinvention and personal growth, career liberation, nourishing relationships, and financial freedom. The Power Years helps us envision and embrace this new chapter of life as we develop a carefully thought-out plan for personal fulfillment. Sharing the inspiring stories of fascinating people as well as plenty of prescriptive advice, the authors reveal how you can:

Genres: Self Help

272 pages, Hardcover

First published September 6, 2005

Reviews

[J · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book has not held up well to the rigors of time. As a millenial reading it, I was hoping for some insight into my parents' generation, but I didn't really find much more than a bunch of self-aggrandizing claptrap and massively outdated information. At the time of my reading The Power Years, the material is 15 years out of date. The authors tend to drone on and on about experiences that require a certain amount of funds to be able to do and even when they do start to get into discussing finances, it's not overly useful for the current marketplace.
Sure, there may be something for someone of a certain age to gain from the book, but I wouldn't recommend it. This book is a good example of why self-help books just don't last in the market for long.

[TL · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic helpful information. Now if I could just retire!

[Therese Gilardi · Rating 3 out of 5]

read this for something i'm working on ... clear writing style, but no new info that would help me get a unique handle on baby boomers.