Game Plan: Winning Strategies for the Second Half of Your Life

by Bob Buford

Thousands of readers have found an exciting new vision for the second half of life in the bestselling book, Halftime . Bob Buford showed us that we aren't experiencing a midlife crisis that's winding us down to our retirement years, but a break in the game that can prepare us for the most exciting half of life. In Game Plan , Buford gives you a practical way to move from success to significance and create an individual strategy that can get you where you want to be five . . . ten . . . twenty . . . thirty . . . or more years from now. If you sense it's time for a positive change in your life, Game Plan gives you the tools to uncover your best self, aim for your highest dreams, and make your career and personal life more meaningful and fulfilling than ever.

Genres: Business, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Nonfiction

170 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1997

Reviews

[Jim King · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helps get started with 2nd half

[Jim Keesling]

How to and what to think about, agter Half Time

[Dr. David Steele · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good practical application.

[Parker Samelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meaningful exhortation for Christians to take practical steps to live a life for impact rather than meaningless trifles.

[Jay French · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buford provides some guidance on planning for what you should do with your life after a mid-life crisis. His focus is on successful business-people who, in rethinking their lives, want to consider becoming significant, generally in a spiritual way. He repeats this many times, trading a life of success for a life of significance. He aims this book at successful business-people generally in their mid forties. Even though I am more than a decade past this target, and even though I don't consider myself successful in business, I still found plenty to think about in this book. Having said that, it wasn't so different from other life planning books, especially those with a Christian bent.

I listened to this on audio. Interestingly, at one point the narrator relates that in the paper book at one point it includes a worksheet, or survey, and that it doesn't translate to audio very well. Instead, the narrator suggests contacting the original author of the survey, not the author of this book, and even spells out his email address. I appreciate the effort for the listeners. This seems like a key part of the book, so if you want the entire experience, you may want to avoid the audio version. At least this is a brief audiobook, so your investment isn't high, and the background and descriptions outside of the workbook activities are interesting, although if you want audio you might be satisfied with Buford's other book "Half Time", which covers the same territory without as much "how to".

[Corinne · Rating 4 out of 5]

more application on Halftime book, good! I was trying to decide if you could read Halftime or this and get the same feeling but after reading them both I'd still tell my friends to read both

[John Caves · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical follow up to Halftime. Good exercises to help you develop a plan.

[Nick Woodall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, but not as good as Half Time.

[Ken · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every 40 year old should read this.

[Dwight Walker]

How to handle a second career after 50 years old.