A Library Special edition of  written by Gordon Burgett, nationally acclaimed speaker and advocate for future planning. Shows how one uses a straightforward five-point process to plan a fun, purposeful, exciting, and joyous "extra 30 years," the length of time longevity has increased in the past century. (This book differs from the 2005 LARGE PRINT version only that the text is regular size and the book is 6" x 9". Neither has fill-in charts, rather the reader is sent to a website where charts can easily be downloaded for in-house use.) This book helps the reader take a look at where he or she is today (assets, money, and health) and how to create a Dream List from them to achieve the things still left undone, or still unimagined! Lots of fun examples and references, plus easy-to-complete downloads, that add delight to the process itself! Book Description What are you going to do with your extra 30 years? It's true, just for being alive right now you get an extraordinary gift--30 extra years! (Our kin died at 48 in 1900 but today we live to 78, with many more reaching 100.) During that time we can reinvent ourselves and create a full "second life," injecting fun, purpose, and meaning into those bonus years. Gordon Burgett to the rescue! That's what this book helps us do: lay out a plan to create a new life, doing what we want when we want! That bonanza of extra years can be a very long, sad bane if we don't plan ahead! Most Americans have a vague sense that they should set aside some surplus cash now so they will be more comfortable later. And they know that puffing three packs a day or years of rampant inactivity rewarded with half gallons of Rocky Road before bed hint of a lesser bonanza. But forgotten entirely is any positive, creative life plan that allows them to define their own second life dreams, then determine how and when they will make those dreams come true. In 224 fun-packed pages (here in library special format but also available in LARGE PRINT paperback and digital), the author helps the reader create his or her own future life map. Burgett's straightforward guide for singles or couples helps them (1) review where they are now: skills, money, and health; (2) create a "Dream List," (3) prioritize and time-peg those dreams, (4) put them into doable action steps, (5) factor in the resources they have to fund them, and (6) put their resulting Action Plan into motion! The book is primarily designed to be used by those in the 40-60 age bracket, but is also an excellent life planning guide for either anybody younger saving for their future or for seniors of any age. Its 17 forms, charts, and worksheets (here downloadable from the Internet) make the planning easy and fun. And its website backup keeps the guide current and the information growing forever. At 67 and with 30 books and 1,700+ articles in print, is the author ready for the rocking chair? "Heavens no!" Burgett retorts. "I'm just getting my second wind..." During his first wind, Gordon was an university dean, taught widely, directed a CARE program in Colombia and Ecuador, played minor league baseball, led a gold hunt on the Paushi-Yaco (Upper Amazon) River, miraculously sank three holes in one, and spoke 100+ times annually for 20+ years. "We're going to get old anyway," Burgett says, "so why not take control? The real issue is proaction or reaction. An exciting, productive, sharing second life doesn't just happen on its own. We must take the reins!"

How to Plan a Great Second Life: Why Not Fully Live Every Day of Your Extra 30 Years?

Business & Money

Gordon Burgett

Personal Finance

Communication Unlimited

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Your Living Family Tree creates a genealogical flip-flop, turning the usual family tree upside down, making it explode upward with 21st-century interactivity and fresh growth rather than digging downward for ever more questionable roots.  Here, Gordon Burgett describes a vital new living family tree that brings every family member, living or yet to be born, into a stirring, magnificent adventure of creating a unifying family website tree onto which each member shares his or her personal history and experiences. Starting with a founding director and beginning just a generation or two back, the website would electronically draw every member together by print, photo, sound, video, and much more, making every member's shared information, musing, memory, and hope instantly available at any time and from any place.  As important, here is a living family tree that will continue to grow and expand for a year, a decade, or 100 decades. The stored collection could last forever and the old-fashioned family tree would be a welcome extension appended as foundational information providing much-wanted starter roots!  In Your Living Family Tree, Burgett explains the revolutionary new concept in the opening chapters: The Idea, The Parts, The Ways, The Director, and The Future. Then he describes 17 possible sections of the tree in an immediately usable format. Those sections might include a Personal Information Repository; Family Directory; Family Registry; Tip of the Hat Acclamations; In Memoriam An-nouncements; an Annual Family Summary; Family Treasures in Print; Family Treasure Box; Family Flashes; the Ancestral Family Tree; Journals, Diaries, and Memoirs; Unforgettable Recollections; Scrapbooks; DNA and Health Concerns, and a list of Other Attachments.  Why confine our genealogical curiosity to the past when we can create the future s past in digital permanence today, tomorrow, and for as long as our families share and grow? See the do-it-yourself process explained step by step in Your Living Family Tree.  This is the Table of Contents of Your Living Family Tree:  Introduction Dedication and Acknowledgements  Section 1 / The Idea A Great New Idea, a Vision, and the Benefits  Section 2 / The Parts The Parts of Your Living Family Tree The nuclear website Friendly software How might your living family tree appear? Do you have a say in how the website looks?  Section 3 / The Ways The Ways Your Family Information is Shared Words Photos Sounds Video Artefacts  Section 4 / The Director Your Living Family Tree Director Finding that heroic first seed planter Equipment needed A Family Tree Board? Family reunions Getting the whole family involved Focussing on the oldest and the youngest first Money and bill paying What do you do right now?  Section 5 / The Future Your Living Family Tree and the Future If somebody doesn t plant this tree now? Keeping it going far into the future... And if it disappears for a while? Your living family tree for 200, 500, or 1000+ years  Appendix Personal Information Repository Sample Personal Information Birth Sheet Sample Personal Information Age 15 Sheet Family Directory Sample Family Directory Key Date List Sample Key Date List Family Registry: Birth, Baptism, Marriage, and Death Sample Birth Registry Tip of the Hat Acclamations Sample Tip of the Hat  In Memoriam Announcements Sample In Memoriam  Annual Family Summary Sample Annual Family Summary Family Treasures in Print Family Treasure Box Family Flashes Ancestral Family Tree Journals, Diaries, and Memoirs Unforgettable Recollections Scrapbooks DNA and Health Concerns Other Attachments Index

Your Living Family Tree: Keeping your family together forever through print, photos, sound, and video

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