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The Art of Growing Old: Aging with Grace
by Marie De Hennezel (Author)
Translated by Sue Dyson

Booktalk: In this timely and essential book, de Hennezel offers a fresh perspective on the art of growing old. She confronts head-on the inevitable grief we sustain at the loss of our youth and explains how refusing to age and move forward in life is actually what makes us become old. Combining personal anecdotes with psychological theory, philosophy, and eye-opening scientific research from around the world, she shows why we should look forward to embracing everything aging has to offer in terms of human and spiritual enrichment. The Art of Growing Old is a thought-provoking, brave, and uplifting meditation on the later years as they should be lived.

Snippet: Can we learn at sixty, seventy, or eighty to liberate our buried creativity if we have not done so earlier in life? Yes! It is never to late to meet ourselves, and to liberate the feelings or emotions we have been holding prisoner. It is never to late to develop our creativity, rediscover our childhood souls, and trust our intuition.

18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
by Peter Bregman (Author)

Booktalk: If you only buy ONE time management book this year, make it this one! After you read it and find YOUR 5 areas of focus, you will get so much done! You don’t have to do everything. This book will help you decide what you really need to do, and help you do it (by taking just 18 minutes a day to stop and look at what matters most to you, so can focus on what really matters.) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Snippet: We start everyday knowing that we’re not going to get it all done. And we look back on the years and wonder were the time went and why we haven’t accomplished what we had hoped.

Time is the only element in the world that is irretrievable when it’s lost. Lose a friend and you can patch up a relationship. Lose a job and you can find another. But lose time and it’s gone forever.