Need help with life’s decisions, large and small?
If so, let Dr. Will Kuchta help you think through many of life’s dilemmas, and provide analytical thinking to help you examine life’s situations in a way that adds to your decision making capability. His life experience and education affords unique perspective, and he offers ways of looking at issues and problems that will expand your thinking.
Will Kuchta has lived a full life starting adulthood in a factory job, then the Army, including a tour in Vietnam, then to college for what became a lifelong educational process including a doctorate, a 30 year career as a corporate executive, then college professor, along the way enjoying a 50+ year marriage including two sons and five grandchildren, numerous fun cars, and currently a 13 handicap golf game while also dealing with cancer.
Advice from the Empty Nest is meant to do just what it says, provide advice. The perspective is that of an older person, admittedly traditional in nature, speaking to people in their 30s who are about to embark on marriage, or partnership, possibly having children and raising them. While traditional in setting, the advice can serve well anyone who is coupling and moving forward in a familial environment. The advice is not given in a parental fashion, as that might be perceived as officious, but more avuncular in nature.
“Among the topics covered, are:
Memorize Things and Remember Names: Sounds simple but it’s more difficult and more helpful than you think. Get into the habit. This chapter explains why and how to get better at this key personal skill, where and when it applies, and how you will benefit from getting better at it.
How to Pick a Home, a Community, a Neighborhood: Where we live shapes our lives, but do we put enough thought into that selection? Do we know the right questions to ask, the right factors to consider? How do you gather honest, accurate information, not just opinions? The author provides ideas about what to consider, where and how to get the best information, and where to go for help.
Your Personal Board of Directors: Most successful organizations have advisory boards filled with smart people dedicated to the success of that organization. Do you have something similar? Most people don’t. The author suggests ways to build a true Personal Board of Directors, beyond your group of friends. This board should be diverse in background and thought. Build the right board and your life will be significantly better.
Talk with Your Children: Sounds obvious, and simple, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. The author provides thoughts on how to go about creating a process for building and maintaining a long term process for having a comfortable, substantial, rewarding, and continuing communication with your children. Start early, do often are important pieces of this plan but there is more.
Faith, Family, Optimism, Service: Do you have a guiding credo for your life? The author suggests that you should, and provides an example that can greatly improve your life.
