Quotes from Bob P. Buford

My passion is to multiply all that God has given me and, in the process, give it back. And I would like to incite you to do the same. I do not want you to be the seed that fell along the path or was scattered in rocky places or was choked by weeds.

If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?

I consider studying the Bible to be a valid form of lifelong learning. If "garbage in, garbage out" is true, then the reverse must be true also.

Peter Drucker advised people who were looking for their life's task: What are my values, my aspirations, my directions, and what do I have to do, to learn, to change, in order to make myself capable of living up to my demands on myself and my expectations of life?

I was given far more opportunity for growth, personal development, and financial rewards than most Americans.

A distinctive of my second half is that I set aside time for introspection almost every weekend. My few hours of uninterrupted reading and thinking are the wellspring from which I draw living water to nurture the activities of the rest of my week.

If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.

As long as we breathe, it is never too late in life to discover a better way. The existential writer Albert Camus discovered this truth: "In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." We

Regardless of where you are, I invite you, in the following pages, to discredit the view that the second half of your life will never measure up to the first. Instead of giving up and settling for life on its own terms, you are ready for new horizons, new challenges. You are ready to move from success to significance

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself, but when he plays the role destiny has for him. Vaclav Havel

And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 1 Kings 19:11 – 12

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

How was it that I could be so successful, so fortunate, and yet so frustratingly unfulfilled?

Halftime is the perfect opportunity to shift from trying to understand God to learning to know him. It is the time to humbly accept the fact that you may never fully understand him, but that you need to accept, by faith, that you are known and loved by him.

I began asking myself questions like these: Am I listening for the still, small voice? Is my work still the center of my life and identity? Do I have an eternal perspective as a prism through which I view my life? What is my truest purpose? My life work? My destiny? What does it really mean to "have it all"?

God has a wonderful plan for the second half of your life: to allow you to serve him by doing what you like to do and what you are good at.

Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

The second half of the baseball diamond is about good works. It is not at all separate from the first half, which is about belief, but grows out of that belief and gives it integrity.

It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.

how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance! Stephen R. Covey, Covey Leadership Center

The second half is riskier because it has to do with living beyond the immediate. It is about releasing the seed of creativity and energy that has been implanted within us, watering and cultivating it so that we may be abundantly fruitful. It involves investing our gifts in service to others — and receiving the personal joy that comes as a result of that spending. This is the kind of risk for which entrepreneurs earn excellent returns much of the time.

This book will show you how to make the rest of your life the best of your life. I want every man in my congregation to read this inspiring story! Rick Warren, pastor, Saddleback Community Church

Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager