Seven Ways to Lighten Your Life Before You Kick the Bucket

A bucket list is a list of things to do before you die. This book is a guide to ways to live before you die. Whether you have a bucket list or not, the stories and insights in this book offer you seven clear ways to lighten—and enlighten—your life before you kick the bucket. George Simons and Walt Hopkins (international consultants in their mid-seventies) have learned a lot about living well while getting older—and they generously and intimately share those learnings with men and women concerned about aging. If you are getting older—or if you know someone who is—this is a provocative, funny, and insightful guide to living a lively and meaningful life as the years go by.

In more than 30 countries for more than 40 years, Walt Hopkins has been leading courses on influencing skills and life-designing skills for all sorts of organizations—including the UN’s World Food Programme, the European Space Agency, social agencies, government, schools, and multinational corporations like Apple, the BBC, Chevron, Digital, Disney, GKN, Heidelberg, OMV, Procter & Gamble, Shell, Statoil, and Unilever. Walt’s courses are practical, helpful, stimulating, and fun. So are his books. George Simons is an independent writer, poet, consultant and trainer who facilitates, a worldwide virtual consulting network specializing in intercultural communication, negotiation and global team management. Creator of the award-winning diversophyR games for developing diversity and intercultural competence, he is engaged in gender issues for men. He is an author of eight instruments in the Cultural DetectiveR series. He frequently lectures at universities and management schools and serves as a keynote speaker at intercultural conferences. He serves as treasurer on the Board of Directors of SIETAR France.