Whistle While You Work

preface

Repacking Our Bags

Six years ago, we embarked on a life-changing adventure. Having completed Repacking Your Bags, our first book together, we found ourselves faced with the opportunity to put into practice the ideas and suggestions we had written about. Our message in Repacking was that each of us needs to develop his or her own vision of the “good life”—which we defined as “living in the place you belong, with people you love, doing the right work, on purpose”—and having done so, must then “repack our bags” so the only burdens we carry are those that really assist us in getting where we want to be.

Walking this walk for us meant examining ...