Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance [Hardcover]

Bob, and Drucker, Peter F (Foreword by) Buford (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company; Illustrated. edition (1995)
• ASIN: B001U0S6TG
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,483,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Challenge to Think About Where You're Going, June 24, 2004

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Michael Taylor "Michael Taylor" (Indian Trail NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Halftime: Changing your game plan from Success to Significance (Hardcover)

While not the final authority, Buford has written a good book encouraging the reader to approach the second half of life as a quest for significance instead of success.

Among the points covered in the book include:

1. Do not allow the second half of life to be characterized by boredom, decline, and decreasing effectiveness for God's kingdom.
2. A challenge to think about what you believe and to find the one most important thing in your life and build on that.
3. How to continue to learn in the second half of life.
4. The more you submit to Christ, the freer you become.
5. Practical ways on how to regain more control over your life.
6. Questions to ask and answer as you "go in to the locker" and prepare for the second half of your life.
7. Find something that fits within the following 2 questions: What have you achieved? What do you care deeply about?

Read and be encouraged to believe that the second half of your life need not be a time of waste or past memories!

While I enjoyed the book, I believe his other book "Gameplan" is better in that it describes more practical ways how to have a productive second half.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cure for the career blahs, January 11, 2000

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worship.com "worshipcom" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance (Paperback)

Most career-oriented individuals reach a plateau in life where they realize there's more to life and happiness than making money and climbing the corporate ladder. They begin to wonder what life would be like if they had a career that permitted them to do what they love to do, rather than what they are good at doing. This book is for anyone who wants to get off of the treadmill but isn't sure how.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For those seriously evaluating the 2nd half of their lives!, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance (Paperback)

I found this book to be en excellent starting point for anyone (more specifically men, written by a man) who is interested in seriously thinking through a life plan of what you are going to do with the rest of your life. Those who find themselves asking the question "do I want to do what I'm doing for the next 10-20 years" will be intetested in what the author has to say.

Even if you have not asked that question yet this book will provide insight into where you are probably headed...

Best considered by those who are determined to be honest with themselves reguardless of the cost and are willing to do something to change their current situation.