"10,000 Days: A Call to Arms for the Baby Boom Generation" is a new book, designed to light a fire underneath the Baby Boom generation.
It calls on the nation's largest generation to return to its activist roots of the 1960s and set this country on a better course. It encourages Baby Boomers to use the experience and wisdom they've garnered over the past 50 years to fix the multitude of problems facing our society.
Baby Boomers still have 30 productive years ahead of them. That's 10,000 days to mentor, volunteer and contribute.
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INTRODUCTION
Do you feel what I feel?
Is there something eating away at you? Something gnawing at your consciousness? A restlessness trickling through your soul as you venture through the middle ages?
I think I’ve figured out what it is.
Remember when we were young? The Baby Boomers were going to change the world. Make it a better place. Remember?
It didn’t quite turn out that way, did it? Somewhere along the path of life, we became sidetracked. We got jobs. We had families. We assumed mortgages.
That was all fine. But it wasn’t what we envisioned.
That’s what’s bothering us as we chug into our fifth, sixth and seventh decades.
We didn’t create a greater society for the generations behind us. Disappointing, isn’t it?
Now, what do we do? Throw up our hands? Slink into retirement? Shrink into oblivion?
Not hardly.
Baby Boomers, we need to reawaken. Find the spirit that evoked thought and action 40 years ago. Rekindle the internal flame that is still burning like a tiny pilot light in many of us.
This phase of our lives is not our swan song. It is our call to arms.
There are 78 million of us Baby Boomers. The largest generation in United States history. A generation with an activist past that now has a half-century of knowledge and experience under their belts. A generation that now has a little more free time to go along with its accumulated wisdom and perspective.
It’s time we grow up and step up. Take charge of our society. Be the force we said we were going to be four decades ago.
Our golden years can be our best years.
We can steer our nation on a better course. By being activists, mentors and family leaders.
We still have 30 productive years ahead of us. That’s 10,000 days. Plenty of time.
Our final chapter hasn’t been written, my fellow Boomers. What will our legacy be?
What we did when we were young...or what we did when we were old. 