Halftime
by Bob Buford
(Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance)

"Listening to the Gentle Whisper (pp. 25,26)

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a a gentle whisper.
1 Kings 19:11b-12

I have not always paid attention to my life. To be honest, I only began paying close attention when I reached my early forties and found myself in a success panic. I was the president and CEO of a tremendously successful cable television company. I was fully engaged in a good and growing marriage. We had a son who was --- there's no more appropriate way to say it --- a prize.

And, of course, there was something gnawing at me. How was it that I could be so successful, so fortunate, and yet so frustratingly unfulfilled.

I knew perfectly well what I believed about business strategies and practices, family relationships, and the importance of friends. But I had not decided how I was going to reconcile all of these competing interests.

And, as for the most important issue of all, my life of faith, I knew what I believed, but I didn't really know what I planned to do about what I believed.

It was then that I started to wrestle with what I wanted out of the second half of my life.

Sample of Table of Contents

Part 1
The First Half
Listening to the Gentle Whisper
Success Panic
Locating the Mainspring

Part 2
Halftime
Taking Stock
What Do You Believe?
Finding Your One Thing
Staying in the Game, but Adjusting the Plan
Leaping into the Abyss

Part 3
The Second Half
Life Mission
Regaining Control
Healthy Individualism
Lifelong Learning
Playing for All You're Worth