TESTIMONIALS
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TESTIMONIALS for the Great Second Life
Book
From James A. Cox, Small Press Bookwatch and The Midwest Book Review, in
February, 2004:
"How
to Plan a Great Second Life...is an innovative guidebook to planning
out and taking full advantage of all the years of one's life, including the
post-retirement and elder years. From the importance of keeping up physical and
mental health; to writing out ideas, listing goals and devising a system to
achieve them; and enhanced with some 200 activities and a variety of consumable
worksheets designed to put the readers in touch with their long-term needs and
desires, (the book) is confidently recommended for anyone who counts on making
the most of their years past the age of retirement."
Living Longer, Living Better
Reviewed on Amazon.com by Dan Poynter, author
of The Self-Publishing Manual (www.parapublishing.com)
from
Retiring only lets you stop what you are doing; retiring is being
unemployed. Turning 65 is not the goal; it is an opportunity to do what you
have always wanted to do. Reminding us that people are living far longer than
they used to, Burgett helps us plan for the future.
Utilizing lists, forms and worksheets, Burgett
helps us assess our assets and liabilities. He asks us to take stock of our
money, skills, things, health and friends. He shows us
how to design a future to fit our individualized situation. Then he describes
how to implement the plan. Now if he could just guarantee me another 30 years. . . :)
Gordon Burgett is the author of 18 books and more
than 1,600 magazine articles. Through his writing and speaking, he has spent
(the first half of) a lifetime helping others. As a publisher, author of 113
books (including revisions and foreign-language editions) and over 500 magazine
articles with some 40 years in the business, I find this guide to be just what
I need at this time in my life.
Full of
practical steps and suggestions...
Reviewed on Amazon.com by C.E.
Zoerner, Jr., Ph.D., author of Racing the Ice to Cape Horn, the incredible
account of Frank Guernsey's epic lone voyage aboard a 24-foot sailboat (Bristol
Fashion Publications, 1999) from
I first met Gordon Burgett when he was an administrator in the
He made his move. It was scary to
behold, but stimulating, too. Burgett's inspiration
later prompted me to start my own new career as a successful writer.
How to Create
Your Own Super Second Life is Gordon Burgett. Follow this manual—packed
with practical steps and suggestions—into the most satisfying time of your
life, the precious years after "retirement."
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Easy to use, thought-provoking, very
enjoyable
Reviewed on Amazon.com by Barb
Mintzer, internationally-recognized award winning
speaker on "Creating
Tomorrow's Opportunities Out of Today's Changes"
from
I saw myself in How to Create
Your Own Super Second Life so clearly. I am in the Second Tier: 55+, and I am
dealing with many of the issues (the book) discuss(es). I enjoyed the quotes scat-tered
throughout the book and (Burgett’s) irreverent sense
of humor in describing some of the facts and fiction
about aging.
I found the exercises very
useful. The super second life dream list was particularly poignant for me as I
realized how long I have let my dreams stay inside without being realized. I am
just now, at 57, starting to let go of the "shoulds"
and am looking at the "wants" that I have put on the shelf for
another time.
I also found the Money Worksheet
very helpful in focusing in on how much I have and what I need to retire. I
realized I had more than I thought, and that the things I would like to do in
re-tirement do not cost that much.
To sum it up, I found the book
thought-provoking, easy-to-read, and a very good primer in giving myself
permission to have a super second life, with the tools to make that happen. The
personal, conversational tone of the book made it very enjoyable to read.
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Article from the
The Road to Self-Discovery
Would you like to reinvent yourself but don't know where to begin?
Now, there's a workbook to help you
figure out what you really want in the rest of your life and how to make it
happen.
How to Create
Your Own Super Second Life: What Are You Going to Do With Your Extra 30 Years? is designed to give readers
tools to identify their dreams and figure out how to turn them into reality.
Author Gordon Burgett,
a
"Knowing that is itself
valuable, but I go a step further and say why not plan for those 30 years and
make them work?" says the 61-year-old author.
In Burgett's
perception, people at midlife now tend to latch onto one of three views of
where to go from here:
* No view at all; let fate be the guide.
* A quest to prolong youth, which could work for a while.
* A vision of self in the driver's seat on a road headed for adventure.
The author makes
a good case for the latter, then assists the reader in
assessing what he or she has today. The next step is deciding what to take on
the next journey and what to leave behind.
Answering this question is
designed to jump-start the planning process: “If you had all the money, time and energy you needed and were free from outside
constraints, what would you do in your extra 30 years?"
The book then walks readers
through such steps as compiling a dream list, putting dreams to a commitment test and sorting them by priority and time frame. Couples
are urged to figure out what dreams they do and don't have in common and how to
proceed from there. Twenty eight work sheets and forms provide a detailed
structure for the process. The last two steps are factoring in financial
resources and creating an action plan.
The book also lists 200
activities (they include classes, new careers, volunteer work and creative
pursuits) to consider when planning a second life.
''You're going to live the extra
years, anyway," Burgett says. "Why not fill
them with joy, fun and purpose?" Alas, he
maintains, it won't just happen on its own.
Kay Harvey, Staff Writer,
TESTIMONIALS for the Super Second Life
Speech
Dear Mr. Burgett:
This is a short note
to tell you how much we valued your presentation “Life After
Dentistry” at our recent annual meeting in
Stephen A. Ralls, DDS, EdD, MSD
Executive Director,
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Gordon:
I want to tell you
how very pleased we were with your presentation to our National Convention in
September. YOU WERE TERRIFIC!!! Just this week I have had the
opportunity--finally--to review the critique of
our convention. You would be pleased to learn that,
overall, we now believe that the idea of bringing in professional speakers for
specific workshop presentations was a superb idea. (You will recall that this
was a new approach for us as opposed to the general world-view programs we
usually do.) There is no question but that your presentation was one of the key
reasons why we believe workshops have a place in our future planning. Specific
comments pertaining to your session emphasized your "positive
approach" and a "vision for future."
On a personal basis,
I want to say that you were a most cooperative speaker to work with and
you delivered what you promised. I'm now a Gordon Burgett
booster. Thanks again--I know that you had to adapt your usual presentation for
our audience and we appreciate that. I look forward to our paths crossing in the
future.
Jim McDonnell,
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