Second Wind for the Second Half: Twenty Ideas to Help You Reinvent Yourself for the Rest of the Journey

by Patrick Morley

Book Overview

Raising issues common to many during the middle years, this book offers practical ideas to make peace with the changes that occur, and shows readers how to pass through to a deeper significance and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310221323
• ISBN13: 9780310221326
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Refreshingly applicable

Mr. Morley has captured the most significant areas of a man's journey into the maturing years of one's life. I used this book in a men's study group (we're all over 50), and there wasn't a single chapter that was irrelevant. The book was an encouraging, uplifting, entertaining and marvelous milestone that promotes reflection, thanksgiving, and hope for any man entering life's later chapters...

From the back cover of the book:

twenty ideas to help you reinvent yourself for the rest of the journey... The first part of your life was like a river running swiftly within its banks. You were working hard to make your mark. You were intense. Focused. But then the river broadened into a lake. Now you find it hard to focus. Often instead of feeling drive and purpose you feel distracted -- even insignificant. Patrick Morley shows how this season of perplexity can become a man's golden opportunity to "reinvent" himself for life's second half. If this sounds like you, or someone you know and love, this book is exactly what you're looking for. Morely gives biblical insight, lived out in the crucible of his own life experience. This book will help you redefine your vision, your goals, and the heart that drives them....

Authentic Time in Your Life

This book suggests a more open approach to life's work decisions after one has put in the "many" years on the job and is restless as to whether there is a better type of work for him/her. While bringing God into the decision, Patrick Morley suggests that this is a time for honest and open review of your passions and desires, in order to gather energy and family support for making choices about what is really important; i.e. discovering your authentic desires and plan for happiness. I would suggest reading this book along with the " The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler Many of us get on a path in our first twenty years that, while leading to some happiness and wealth, may not be consistent with the true you; at least as you and your family have developed over the years. The author provides many exercises or focus questions, that will help you see a clearer view of the path that may be yours to chose as you approach the second half of your life. As a result, this book stimulates contemplation and review of the activites that generate happiness for you and your family.

Very Good Guide

Take your time with this one. Pat really makes you think and work out just exactly where you are, where you need to be, and gives some excellent ideas of how to get there. At 48, I needed this guidebook. I took several weeks to read and absorb the truths - some not so easy - and some very reassuring.If you're 'midlife' and wondering "What next?." read this book. It would also be a good book for a small men's group to study for several weeks. Pat includes focus questions and challenges you after each chapter.I highly reccommend this book and believe that you will be very pleased and quite possibly changed after reading.