Why this is in my collection
From the publisher:
Praise for Portfolio Life Dave Corbett's book turns two simple ideas into a program for life-enrichment, that you can create a life expressly for yourself and that the so-called retirement years are the best time to do it. Drawing on a lifetime of work with people who were rethinking what they wanted and their direction, he shows how to do both those things. Be warned: If you read the book, you're going to be changed. But I think you'll like how you turn out. --Bill Bridges, author, Transitions and Job Shift Dave's book reveals a powerful and profound formula for crafting a genuinely rich life
Highlights
- Life after 50 as a designed portfolio, not a wind-down — Corbett replaces the retirement cliff with a deliberate allocation across working, learning, giving back, and leisure; treating a life phase as something you architect rather than something that happens to you is life-design's version of model-first.
- You can create a life expressly for yourself — the book's radical-sounding premise is simply agency applied at the whole-life level: define the intended shape first, then arrange the pieces to fit it, instead of letting the old job's shape persist by default.
- Identity must be decoupled from the job title — the hardest transition work is separating who you are from what your business card said; for any independent professional, positioning by thesis and body of work rather than by role is exactly this decoupling made professional.
- The portfolio is rebalanced, not set once — allocations across the life-domains shift as circumstances and energy change, on purpose and periodically; a review cadence for a life, structurally the same loop that keeps any long-lived system honest.
- Transitions deserve a structured process — Corbett's program walks through assessment, exploration, and redesign as explicit stages rather than hoping clarity arrives; treating a career transition as a project, with decision records instead of drift.
- Purpose is an input to the design, not a byproduct of busyness — the "passion" thread argues meaning gets designed in via what you choose to include; intentions over goals, chosen before the calendar fills itself.
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