What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
We must never mistake a good career for good work.
David Whyte
If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.
To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.
William James
You have to follow your heart in order to live your best life. In essence, the biggest risk a person can take is not to live from the heart.
Robert Holden
For the first time in human experience, we have a chance to shape our work to suit the way we want to live instead of always living to fit in with our work... We would be mad to miss the chance.
Charles Handy
This is your voyage and your call. So get out your navigational charts and equipment - it's time to change course.
William Sadler
Resources
A few of my personal favourites on the subject of transition, fulfillment and navigating a new direction.
authentic success
Robert Holden, Ph.D.
Porfolio Life - The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion
David Corbett with Richard Higgins
Mastery - The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
George Leonard
Transitions - Making Sense of Life's Changes
William Bridges
Crossing the Unknown Sea - Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
David Whyte
encore - finding work that matters in the second half of life
Marc Freedman
Changing Course - Navigating Life After 50
William A. Sadler, Ph.D. and James H. Krefft, Ph.D.
Excuses Begone! - How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Prime Time - How Baby Bookers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
Marc Freedman
Don't Retire, REWIRE! - 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work
Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners
A Long Bright Future
Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D.
The Road Less Traveled & Beyond - Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety
M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer