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of your years matters more than the
number of them. Feeling alive is even
more important than longevity. The
ideal is to have long life and for those
years to be rich and full.
Eric
Thurman
When you drive down a street and
notice a house with a lovely manicured
lawn and gorgeous flower gardens,
you can be sure that the beauty didn’t
come about by accident. It took
deliberate attention and effort on
someone’s part to plan and nurture
the landscaping. An unattended lawn
almost never turns out well. Can you
see how this is also true of your life?
Your life will blossom, but only if you
cultivate it.
Excerpted from Thrive in Retirement: Simple Secrets
for Being Happy for the Rest of Your Life. Copyright
© 2019 by Eric Thurman. To be published by
WaterBrook, an imprint of Penguin Random House
LLC, on February 26 2019.
Eric Thurman has a history of
blazing trails. He was one of the
early leaders of the microfinance
movement,
heading
anti-
poverty programs in 30 less
developed nations. Now, driven
by personal passion to find both
meaning and enjoyment during
his later life, he is creating a new
path for people who also want
to thrive during the last third of
their life. His new book is Thrive
in Retirement: Simple Secrets for
Being Happy for the Rest of Your
Life (WaterBrook, Feb. 26, 2019).
Thurman and his wife, Diane,
reside in Illinois.
Eric Thurman
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