My Time: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

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Summary: Read This and It Will Push You To Think About Your Future
Review: I read an article about this book in The Washington Post right before Christmas. Intrigued, I asked for the book as a gift, which I promptly received. It's a quick, enjoyable read, that has a deep message--that we need to plan for our future years. That it's not the money issue so much in retirement as it is the issue of creating or re-creating our life to continue to be meaningful. For the first time in my almost 56 years, I have begun planning for the next 5-10 years of my life--and that's primarily because of reading this book. Like Bob Buford's book, Half Time, this book stresses how valuable life is beyond retirement, and that after all that striving to make a living, there is time left to really make a life. I guarantee this book will stay with you after you read it. Just reading the case studies alone prompted me to dream a little. Or maybe a lot.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: If you are looking for a "What Color Is Your Parachute" book for guidance on making the most of your life between 50 and 75, this is not it. It is a collection of impressions and interviews with successful cheerful retired professionals, rather than a hard look at our choices and how to make major decisions on jobs, families, finances, health, and spiritual well-being. Her subjects are uniformly propserous, well-educated, self-aware, and articulate. It reads like an expanded article from the Washington Post, and since the author is a Post writer there, no wonder. Lawyers and doctors are her featured subjects. Some of the books and studies she cites may be worth pursing, but it is hard to tell. This book fills its market niche, but a wider audience could use a more comprehensive and analytic guide to these potentially productive and enjoyable years, as another reviewer puts it. This it reads like Gail Sheehy for 2004.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: If you are looking for a "What Color Is Your Parachute" book for guidance on making the most of your life between 50 and 75, this is not it. It is a collection of impressions and interviews with successful cheerful retired professionals, rather than a hard look at our choices and how to make major decisions on jobs, families, finances, health, and spiritual well-being. Her subjects are uniformly propserous, well-educated, self-aware, and articulate. It reads like an expanded article from the Washington Post, and since the author is a Post writer there, no wonder. Lawyers and doctors are her featured subjects. Some of the books and studies she cites may be worth pursing, but it is hard to tell. This book fills its market niche, but a wider audience could use a more comprehensive and analytic guide to these potentially productive and enjoyable years, as another reviewer puts it. This it reads like Gail Sheehy for 2004.