Repacking Your Bags
Author: Richard J. Lieder, David A. Shapiro
Publisher: Berret-Koehler Publishers
Date Published: 2nd Rev ed. June 15, 2002
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This is a step-by-step manual designed to help you set down the burdens you are carrying, examine them to see if they are really making you happy, and discover new ways to lighten your load. Do you ever find yourself making these kinds of statements? “I’ve got to get my life under control.” “I don’t know who I want to be for the rest of my life.” “I’m not fully living my life.” Repacking Your Bags uses the metaphor of baggage to help remind you that life is a journey, and that your experience along the way is intimately bound up in the baggage–emotional, intellectual, and physical–that you are carrying. What we carry around defines so many aspects of our life. Learning to release what no longer serves us and developing a balance of the demands of work and love can lead us to a life made up of our own vision of success and a true path to happiness.