It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age
Author: Barbara Sher
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ISBN: 0440507189
Publisher: Dell (13 April, 1999)
Sales Rank: 9,014
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
I wish I would have had this book at 40.
I wish I would have had this book at 40, I knew the second half of my life could be very good, but I was going about trying to find it in the wrong way. Looking for that last romantic love, worrying every time I looked in the mirror and saw my mother, the creeping pounds, starting a search for that fulfilling career and the loneliness of being a single woman - again. This book has helped me to sit and review how I was looking in the wrong directions to achieve the happiness I want for the rest of my life. I have read many of Barbara Sher's books and I think this is the best one that she has written. It's insightful, honest and makes you search yourself to understand why we think and act the way we do. Quite honestly, it has changed my life and I can't wait to get started.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This book changed my life!
I've been through therapy and read a number of self-help books, and felt I had a pretty good handle on my life . . . except for some nagging career dreams that were going nowhere fast. This book helped me to see things from an entirely new perspective, gave me a new concept of "time", helped me recall my abandoned dreams, and ways to achieve them. It also helped me to identify the 8-year "midlife crisis" that I didn't know I'd been in, and just being able to understand that opened new horizons for me mentally and emotionally. While the age most often addressed in the book is 40, I found it absolutely applied to me at 49. This book has given me new motivation, energy and positive attitude to the second half of my life. I recommend it for anyone from 35 to 90!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Quite seriously, the polar opposite of inspirational
The only thing that I felt like "starting" after reading "It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now" was a suicide note. Being of sound mind and body I decided to kick this one to the curb.Barbara Sher's alleged guide to the second half of life was truly the most depressing inspirational book that I have ever read. Hoping to find practical tips on how to set about jump-starting my career and pursuing a life-long dream, I found this book (particularly the first half) to be some twisted perspective on evolutionary theory. Sher's major premise seems to be that we are freed up in the second half of our lives to pursue the things we really love because we are no longer viable as attractive, sexually desirable human beings. Once we accept that prounouncement and stop trying to compete with 20-somethings, we can move on to create a fabulous life for our homely, undesirable selves. She goes so far as to criticize those who dye their hair or try to stay physically fit by going to the gym.
I would agree that our culture more than any other in the world is obsessed with youth and that aging gracefully by focusing on expanding one's mind and heart is most definately a worthwhile goal. However, there are far better, more positive ways to communicate that idea. Sher's book reads like very sour grapes from someone who didn't get asked to the prom and who is actually still angry about it.
As a 42-year-old woman who still turns heads and loves her 37 year old fiance both romantically and spiritually. I think one's time and money are much better spent elsewhere. I highly recommend (a solid five stars) Martha Beck's "Finding Your Own North Star Claiming the Life You Were Meant To Live".
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