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Bob Buford is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Buford Television, Inc., and founder of Leadership Network, the support ministry for today's most successful pastors and church leaders. Besides Halftime, which has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, and toon meer New Man magazine, Buford is also the author of Game Plan. He lives in Dallas, Texas. toon minder

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Buford, Robert P.
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Buford, Bob
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It's never too late (or too early) to begin finishing well!

In wanting to encourage you to finish well, author Bob Buford has gone to lunch with "some of the smartest people on the planet" and invited you to join them. People such as Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, Dr. Kenneth Cooper, George Gallup, Howard Hendricks, Roger Staubach and Bill Pollard detail how they've gone beyond success to significance in their 40s and beyond, and by their words, you can learn how you too can accomplish work that has eternal purpose and meaning until the day you die.

SOME OF THEIR PEARLS OF WISDOME INCLUDE:

"If people see their best years behind them, they're probably not going to finish very well, because you can't finish well when you're going backwards."

"We can retire from our jobs but we can never retire from our calling."

"We live pale and empty lives here on earth because we're ignorant about what lies ahead, and we need to see that the dimensions of life are so much greater than what we can see, hear, and touch today."

"We are made to work; and to maintain meaning in our lives, we need to be engaged in work that has meaning and purpose."

"People who achieve have a habit of achievement that begs for sustaining."

"As long as you're able to do something meaningful, why would you want to go into some kind of holding pattern?"

Buford doesn't just ask these "second season trailblazers" what finishing well looks like. He lays out practical strategies and offers additional valuable perspective that can ready you for a rich future, whether you're 20 or 80. It's never too late (or too early) to start living a meaningful life!
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OCMCCP | Jan 10, 2018 |
I have a confession to make. I'm forty. I aged out in June and I am forced to face the fact that I'm statistically closer to the grave than the cradle. In many ways I don't feel forty yet. I feel like I'm still becoming who I was meant to be. I don't feel like I'm established. There is so much I had hoped to accomplish at this point, there is security which has eluded me, such as a fulfilling job and life success.

4434Authors Peter Greer and Greg Lafferty both have successful ministry careers. Greer is the president and CEO of Hope International, a global micro-finance organization. Lafferty is the senior pastor of Willowdale Chapel in Jennersville, Pennsylvania. Greer watched Lafferty navigate his forties and decided to learn from him about how he could avoid a midlife crisis and be propelled towards meaningful mission (17). 40/40 Vision: Clarifying Your Mission in Midlife is Greer and Lafferty's call for us to reevaluate our lives and press into the things which matter.

Lafferty and Greer share vulnerability about their experience of aging. They also engage a third dialogue partner: Qoheleth. The author of Ecclesiastes provides insights on refocusing our life midstream. Greer and Lafferty (and Qoheleth) address midlife (ch. 1), the meaninglessness of life (ch. 2), disappointment with our life not going how we had planned (ch.3), the lose of 'thrill'(ch. 4), facing mortality (ch. 5), growing in generosity (ch. 6), breaking the addiction to go-go-go (ch. 7), aging well (ch. 8), deepening our relationships in midlife (ch. 9), relinquishing control (ch. 10), finding meaning outside of 'a job' (ch. 11), and living a life with lasting purpose (ch. 12).

In their introduction, Greer and Lafferty write, " Our hope is that this is not just another self-help book loosely based on Christian principles or a list of ways to ease the symptoms of midlife. Rather, we want to address the underlying questions of midlife through the timeless wisdom fo Ecclesiastes. Although many issues in their forties, others face them in their thirties or fifities" (17-18). Sharing vulnerably from their life experience, they delve into each theme, highlighting the wisdom and insights of Ecclesiaties and exploring what it means to live life on mission in life's latter half.

This book speaks meaningfully to me in a way I wish it did not. I would rather be young, invincible, and immortal. But the experience of forty means I have to face up to life and press forward knowing that reckoning and resurrection await those who fear God and keep his commandments (183-184). Greer and Lafferty's conversational tone draws you and causes you to reflect on what life could be like moving forward.

I recommend this book for those near forty, those who are forty or fortyish, and those who saw forty a long time ago and still pretend they are forty. Greer and Lafferty show how Ecclesiastes speaks to midlife. I give this four stars.

Note: I received this book from IVP in exchange for my honest review.
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Jamichuk | May 22, 2017 |
Well, as I said earlier, I picked this book up b/c it was sitting in front of me one day at church. I was hesitant about it, afraid it was going to be one of those self-help, motivational rah-rah type of books. I think to some extent I was right, it was. I was drawn by the premise: that one's second half of life is better than the first and that this is b/c of of a shift in focus from success to significance. So while you're young, working hard, trying to build a career, you are stressed out, running around like a crazy chicken, not contemplating the passage of time and what your purpose is/ Once you hit your forties, you begin to shift and may begin a new focus in life- a mission, a ministry of some sort. I like Buford's ideas about this, however his examples of how people he knew made this shift successfully were a bit one-sided. Though Buford insists you do not have to be wealthy to make this shift, to quit your job and then focus on your true passion and start up a whole new bag of tricks, he inevitably draws up examples from his affluent friends: CEOs of banks, Vice Presidents or Presidents of huge corporations, and other millionaire types... Sure, if I had a pot full of gold I could have the leisure of investing in a dream. But most regular joes don't have multi-million dollar assets they can sell off to support their second half ventures. The regular joes have bills to pay, debts and loans to pay back, and many live paycheck to paycheck. Buford makes mention of these situations, but it's only lip service. He himself was a cable exec and entrepreneur. He has no idea what it's like to be on the poor end of things... So while he and his cronies can quit their first half jobs and start up new ventures and live out their significance in joy, peace and luxury, the rest of us are still trying to pay off mortgages or paying ever increasing rent and a myriad of other bills. We simply don't have the luxury to put into practice his lofty ideals. That being said, I do appreciate the premise; do something of significance in your later years. You're never too old to be significant.









I saw this today, sitting on a table at church. And we have a copy of the book at home. So b/c it was there, I started to read the preface and foreward. I really shouldn't be starting to read yet another book (!) as I've got three others going already. but this caught my eye. I hope it isn't going to be motivational speaker-type of hoopla w/christian-ese.
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homeschoolmimzi | 3 andere besprekingen | Nov 28, 2016 |
Rated: C-
Bob Buford might be a saint -- certainly his actions prove his heart is in the right place. However, I came away with the sense that the book should have been entitled: Me & Peter.
 
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