This guidebook's purpose is to emphasize the dynamism inherent in a life path and to identify key qualities that sustain one along a life's journey, despite unanticipated intersections with people and events that affect life course changes. The stimulus for initiating the book project came upon the author unexpectedly. After earning a living for almost 50 years, he decided to embark on the life-changer known as "retirement." Surprisingly, something...