How to Live After 50

49, 50, 51... How to live the second half of your life with grace as you pass through the years when your days are fewer than the days you've lived.

Nowadays, so many people are energetic even at 50, and so many say that real life starts at 60, 70, and so on, that it feels like there is still much life left even at 50. But that's not true at all. Even if they live to the average lifespan, they have only 30 years left. Anyone who has lived to 50 knows how quickly that passes.

This book is the story of how the author, who realized this obvious truth at the age of 49, started to live the second half of his life pondering and acting on the question, "What can I do to stop living the way I've been living and begin planning and living the way I want to live?" In this book, the author tells, sometimes gently, sometimes fiercely, what he's learned from creating, reading, and studying more than 300 kinds of books in his 20 years as a publishing planner and editor, the struggles and practices he's incorporated into his life while going through life's upheavals around the age of 50, and his resolutions to live this complex lives.

This book teaches you how to make the most of your second half of life. First and foremost, you need to train yourself to be a person who is not swayed by emotions but controls emotions. Suppose you are swayed back and forth by various emotions from the environment and people around you. In that case, you will not be able to take control of your life. Therefore, dealing with emotions is dealing with you, dealing with your life. And conversely, dealing with how to live is also dealing with emotions.

The book offers four resolutions to becoming a person who controls emotions and lives one's own life. These are: don't get upset, don't get heartbroken, don't get anxious, and redesign the view of life that will establish the center of life. By practicing these resolutions and making them habits, you can live the second half of your life in control. This book will get you started on that path.

• Prologue: When the days left are fewer than the days lived
• Chapter 1: "If you lose to emotions, you lose to life" - Don't get angry
• Chapter 2: "Lost, you will earn, and empty, you will fill" - Don't be heartbroken
• Chapter 3: "Life goes on no matter what happens" - Don't be nervous
• Chapter 4: "Thinking of the yellow-bellied goose bug at the end of the universe" - Building the center of life
• Epilogue: "To live is to take good care of your body" - 4 tips to feel better right now

Born in 1973.
Co-president of UKNOWBOOKS, a total publishing house.
Representative of METASEQUO, a global e-publisher.
Publishing planner, editor, book designer.
Walk lover.
Writer.