5: Where Will You Be Five Years from Today? [Hardcover]

Dan Zadra (Author), Kristel Wills (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2009

The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life---or just another five years. Let this extraordinary book be your guide and inspiration. Whether you are just graduating from college, newly married, considering a new career, setting goals for retirement, or just looking to inspire a special friend, employee or family member, here's the most inspiring and compelling gift you can find.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"'5' is a great book! It incorporates quotes and questions to spark your imagination as to what you would like to accomplish over the next five years...to live your life on purpose." --Rachael Ray, host of Lifetime's Rachael Ray show

We are pleased to announce that "5" has won the gold medal for top honors in the Personal Growth/Motivation category of the Living Now Book Awards. --Independent Publisher

We sent the "5" book out to our top 500 clients. Our clients love life, work, travel, adventure, challenges, accomplishment...many asked where they could get copies for their clients. --Mark Murphy, President/CEO, Performance Media Group

The "5" book...helped me realize that in 5 years you can do a lot, a little or nothing. It got me off the treadmill of 10 hour work days and back on the road to adventure and purpose. --Laura Boro, CEO/Creative Director, Wild Things

I was moved to get 72 copies for our classrooms. So many students just live in the "now," but "5" helps inspire them for the future, to set goals and to think about what's really important in their lives. --Erin Clarke, teacher

From the Author

This remarkable gift book was first introduced at Starbucks stores during the Holiday season and it sold out nationwide in a matter of days---and for good reason. "5" is not a work book, it's a play book. It's not a "here's how" book, it's a "why not?" book. You are the hero of this story. The thoughts in these pages will inspire you to look out at the next five years and be daring, bold and true to yourself. No matter what stage you are in life, this book helps you answer the questions, "What do I really want to do? What do I really want to be? What do I really want to have? Where do I really want to do?"

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: Compendium, Inc. (January 5, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932319441
• ISBN-13: 978-1932319446
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Happiness
  • #77 in Books > Self-Help > Motivational

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A provocative and visually stimluating planning tool, February 2, 2009

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Jim Smith "The Executive Happiness Coach" (Cleveland, Ohio, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 5: Where Will You Be Five Years from Today? (Hardcover)

Each year I share with my clients and friends a book that I believe will provoke their thinking in some way.

Shortly after Thanksgiving last year I found myself in a Starbucks Café with a steaming Americano on my table and seated next to a display of dark chocolate and merchandise. I had a 30-minute wait till my appointment arrived, so I began to page through the book titled, "5." It's a tool for planning your life five years out, filled with thought-provoking activities. Yet even when I ignored the exercises, I decided, it's a good, fun read!

I found the layout stimulating, the questions quite provocative, and the value high. So high, in fact, that I talked a Starbucks manager into ordering me a full case of these (50) for exclusive distribution to my client base.

They loved the book! I received dozens of notes from clients who dug into the exercises and were having a wonderful time discovering their future. A few confessed they had no energy to plan the future, but when they started reading the book they felt so inspired by the layout and the powerful questions that they found themselves engaged despite them selves.

I also had a lot of requests re: Where can I get a copy? Until very recently (end of month Jan 09) the book was not available except thru Starbucks, and they were sold out. I'm thrilled it's now available thru AZN.

My wife and I used two copies of this book to do our annual Planning Retreat, where we set aside an entire day to review the past year and then look ahead to the next. This book, 5, challenged us to look even further ahead.

It's not a breakthrough book, and it's filled with a lot of quotes and readings that self-improvement junkies will have already seen before. But the presentation is so much fun; and the arrangement of activities keeps one moving thru the planning/vision process.

Bottom line, it's a pretty joyful planning tool. I highly recommend this for those who get stuck in planning their life, and especially those who appreciate visual presentation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 is a "TEN"!, June 15, 2011

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Sarah D - See all my reviews

This review is from: 5: Where Will You Be Five Years from Today? (Hardcover)

What a great book! I love the fact that it is "user friendly" and an easy read. The content of the book is excellent and it really got me thinking about what I want to focus on and how much can be accomplished over the next five years.

It's amazing to think that Julia Child went from cooking school to an Emmy winning TV chef in only four years. And that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went from a 500 square foot apartment at age 30 to a net worth of $10 billion in just five years. It made me realize just how much can be accomplished in such a short span of time!

One of the things that I found particularly helpful was breaking out the various areas of my life into discrete categories, what he calls the "Wheel of Life" (e.g., family, career, health, travel relationships, etc.). Thinking about what I want to accomplish in each of these areas helped me formalize some thoughts that had just been floating around in my head.

Another part of the book that I found inspiring was the section titled, "Do It Now!" It really pushed me to start finding the time to really go after the things I want to do, but have procrastinated about. In the same way, the thought that you should not "go" through life, but instead "grow" through life was perfect, as it inspired me to try new things like reading the classics and breaking some bad habits that have bothered me for years.

If you want to really make the next five years of your life something you can enjoy and be proud of, do yourself a favor and read "Five". For those of you who like setting goals but don't always know how to go about achieving them, I recommend reading "Goal! Your 30 Day game Plan for Business & Career Success" Goal!: Your 30-Day Game Plan for Business and Career Success, since it helps you create a specific plan to achieve important goals.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, July 16, 2009

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alicedonut (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 5: Where Will You Be Five Years from Today? (Hardcover)

This is a great book! I have bought it for myself, my husband and brother. It is full of great examples and inspiration for setting goals and living your life with purpose.