A Guide for Aging Heroes: 30 Days to Owning the Second Half of Life by Randolph Harrison, M.Ed., co-created with Erica Schwarting, is a self-improvement manual for people over the age of 40. The guide aims to break the stereotypes of aging and advises patience and boldness in reaching your goals. The author encourages readers to involve their loved ones in the journey because they can help you through the process. He also gives the characteristics of an aging hero and explains the mental, spiritual, and physical transformation exercises a person needs to undergo to become one. When applied correctly, you will find that the strategies provided will break down the barriers created by past childhood and relationship trauma. Discover the benefits of living a joyful life, investing in experiences, and becoming an aging hero.

Well-researched and scientifically tested, A Guide for Aging Heroes is what you need right now to brighten your life. Randolph Harrison, M.Ed., uses life experiences including depression, bullying, family, and love to explain his theories. His honesty helps the reader to relate to him. I appreciated that he worked on this project with his wife, Erica Schwarting, because she gives a different perspective to the book. We have different lives and traumas, but one thing is for sure, we all want to be happy. This guide is aimed at people over the age of 40, but I think it can still apply to readers below this age. It is never too earlier to make a positive change in your life. Apart from the enlightening quotes, the book also contains diagrams and provides practical steps, which makes it easy to understand and execute. Begin your journey to a happier and more fulfilled life by reading this book today.

A Guide for Aging Heroes: 30 Days to Owning the Second Half of Life is by husband-and-wife team Randolph C. Harrison and Erica Schwarting, who define themselves as being “on the back end of middle age.” Viewing themselves as aging heroes, Harrison and Schwarting wish to encourage others heading on in years to become just as enthusiastic about life as they are, creating “emotional prosperity” for themselves by embarking on a meaningful journey of becoming emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and physical heroes. By viewing life as “a terrific, life-affirming adventure,” they wish us to lose any negativities regarding our aging existence and to become renewed and affirmed within ourselves. In short, they challenge us to live more and more authentically, day by day.

I love the practical and extremely positive approach of Randolph C. Harrison’s and Erica Schwarting’s A Guide for Aging Heroes, which is full of pointers as to how we can improve our lifestyle and behavior to maximize the potential that each day offers us. Harrison’s recovery from a diagnosis of COPD required his adopting various helpful strategies, which he shares with us in an overwhelmingly supportive and motivational way. In showing us how “generativity is the hallmark of success in mid-life,” he encourages us to be empathetic and kind to one another. The quotations of other positive and proactive people included throughout the text reinforce the approach taken by Harrison and Schwarting, so that, in grasping the significance of this work, we are led almost inevitably to realize that this is the approach that we should adopt to access a fulfilling and satisfying future. A well-written and inspiring text, filled with mature insights garnered from a lifetime of experience, A Guide for Aging Heroes is well worth consideration by anyone heading into the second half of their lives.