Repacking Your Bags

Lighten Your Load for the Good Life, Third Edition, Updated and Expanded

By: David A. Shapiro, Richard J. Leider

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

The first and second editions of Repacking Your Bags helped people develop their own unique visions of the good life and take practical steps at home and at work to make sense of their lives and live in an authentically meaningful way. Written as a travel guide it helped people to put together a "trip checklist" that provided the elements of the good life: work, love, place, and purpose.

But Leider and Shapiro came to realize that repacking is not something we do once or twice in reaction to a sense of disillusionment or frustration in our lives. Developing one’s own vision of the good life is a matter of constant and evolving choice, as the inevitable shifts and surprises life has to offer continually unfold before us. With each step along the way, it remains necessary to reexamine what has brought us here, to continue asking ourselves if the choices that have sustained us so far are continuing to do so - or if they’re just weighing us down.

This edition has been thoroughly revised to make it applicable for listeners today. The changes include:

• Refocused message on the new life and work realities and the survival skills required to succeed
• More practices and experiences for "lightening your load"
• Fresh new stories of "people just like me", the listener
• A new "Repacking Journal"
• Addition of Leider’s immensely popular Calling Cards exercise for discovering your gifts, passions and values, with access to a Calling Cards online profile

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2012 Richard J. Leider & David A. Shapiro (P)2012 Gildan Media LLC

Critic reviews

"Full of the right questions rather than the wrong answers, Repacking Your Bags will help you figure out where you want to go in your life and what you really need for the journey." (Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline)

"Leider and Shapiro help us to see how many extra burdens we’ve been carrying around and how to lighten our load." (Gloria Steinem)

Interesting content, but broken structure

As with the original book, the content and discussion from the authors seemed interesting, as they moved through topics relevant to life, work, and relationships. However, the audiobook version chapters are broken - there are pieces of Chapter 6 and other sections appearing in later chapters, and several chapters have duplications which make it really frustrating to figure out if the content is really the authors trying to repeat information to reinforce a particular point, or just a bug.

Good but skipping around

Kept skipiping around???
I somehow kept hearing same parts of the story over and over. I couldn't quite understand why. Like it was jumping around and repeating chapters. Otherwise a great book

Horrible Editing - Kept Repeating Sections

I have listened to > 100 audiobooks and never had this problem. The audiobook was horribly edited. I lost at least 110 minutes of my life re-listening to large swaths of text. At first I thought it was the player, but after bookmarking these repeats of text, I could see, clearly it was not the player. The most obvious example came near the end, when the entire Epilog repeated itself. The Out of Africa story was read three times at different points in the book. It repeats the, "I'm bored," line so many times, I could actually relate. Whoever produced this audiobook, owe the authors an explanation. The content was interesting enough.