New Directions in the Second Half of Life

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive...it isn't."

Retirement, as a lifestyle, is a dead vestige of the Industrial Age. In today's Information Society, "re-fire-ment" is fast replacing retirement as the truly compelling Second Half of Life goal.

This 30-minute documentary highlights six "second half" lives. The common thread is having goals–often radically different goals, paths, and lifestyles from the first half of life.

Meet the founder of a mid-sized law firm who short-circuited his practice to become an internationally-lauded glass artist. Or a woman who left a 20-year teaching career to follow her heart and become an ordained minister.

Learn form an 90-year old Pacific Northwest tennis champion, who picked up a tennis racket for the first time at age 40. His focus these days? A #1 ranking for the US in the 85+ age group.

Divorced at 50, another teacher took up competitive race walking and won races, then basketry and became a regional authority on native arts, and started trekking the mountain ranges across the globe after never having left the US during her first half of life.

Explore how the winning-est coach in state history chose the unconventional path... to not retire, but to continue his passion of working with kids. And learn how a successful law partner left her practice to lead a foundation that provides free grief counseling to children.

You've learned what society wants of you. Now it's time to learn what you want... from life.