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"What if your entire life up until now has simply been R & D-Research and Development-for the BIGGER game you have yet to play? What if nothing in your past was wasted and your entire life has been timed and organized for exactly this moment? What if the only start that matters is the one you're making right now? Approaching middle age and mired in a half-million-dollar custody suit, Darrell Gurney sat in his chair late one evening watching his eight-year-old son sleeping and wondered if he had epically failed at living. Career chaos, divorce, and a desperate fight to stay in his boy's life-what did he have to show for his first forty years? His answer, inspired by his real story, you now hold in your hands. It can help you find your answers too. . Winner of the esteemed Nautilus Award for Aging Consciously, Darrell Gurney's The Back Forty-an intimate memoir of self-discovery while also a practical guide for midlife revolution-reveals 7 Embraces that will alter every aspect of your life experience and guide you in crafting a bold, fully-expressed future. You are never who you ""are."" You are never who you've ""been."" You are who you're becoming. In this book, you'll unearth: How to transform significant, victim-laced experiences from the past and present to create a free-flying future How to take inventory of current-day gifts and values to awaken to the individual you've become and are still becoming How to flip the concept of midlife crisis into opportunity and initiation into a second half of your greatest Self-expression How to adopt an easy and playful practice of purpose while dropping any heavy and pressured pursuit of it How to engage in ego-freeing and availability-enhancing practices to collaborate with a Universal energy at your service and by your side Considering the enormous costs, struggle and heartache often associated with big midlife changes - whether it be a half-million-dollar custody suit, an expensive divorce, the lost time from an unwanted career change or business failure, or the health challenges brought about by extreme stress - your investment in The Back Forty perspective of your next half/best half of life ahead could be the best investment made in a very long time. Get The Back Forty and start cultivating your radical, best-half-of-life future today!"

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"""The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half outlines the basic tenets of an approach to life that maintains that midlife is a time to revise perspectives to reach for new opportunities for growth and fulfillment. It's a welcome antidote to the notion that midlife begins the slow slide into inability and retirement from life, providing readers with an inspirational survey of these opportunities and how they may be realized. Consider it a perfectly timed tool for reevaluation."" -Midwest Book Review ""In The Back Forty, Darrell Gurney has laid down an effective and inspiring roadmap for getting deep and insightful with oneself at the midpoint-or any point-of life. Disassembling, recontextualizing and causing one's purposeful life going forward, guided by these seven Embraces, ensures anyone a future of possibilities that weren't going to 'happen anyway.' This is indeed radical thinking."" -Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50's only two-time winner of #1 Leadership Thinker in the World, the World's #1 Executive Coach and Top Ten Business Thinker ""Yes, your first half of life was simply research and development. This outlines what to do with the second half. Inspiring wisdom for any age, don't enter or leave midlife without The Back Forty."" -Chip Conley, New York Times best-selling author of Wisdom @ Work and founder of Modern Elder Academy ""The Back Forty is a testament to the unstoppable spirit in each of us. Darrell Gurney intimately shares his own midlife quest for purpose, stepping beyond fear and doubt to pave the way for himself and each of us to have our second half of life be the best half. This is required reading if you want the next phase of your life to be the best part ever."" -Cynthia Kersey, best-selling author of Unstoppable and founder of The Unstoppable Foundation ""Through his spiritual daring, Gurney sheds light upon the vital subject of discovering one's inner wholeness at any age and stage on life's journey. He moves his readers into a revolution in consciousness: loving ourselves for who we are, for the innate capacities of the heart and soul."" -Michael Bernard Beckwith, best-selling author of Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation and founder/spiritual director of The Agape International Spiritual Center ""The Back Forty is an honest, authentic take on how the most challenging moments lead to powerful truths. It provides an opportunity to examine the past like a scientist and experiment with creating mindsets which will set you up for a joyful present and enriching future. As Darrell points out: 'The only start that matters is the one you make now.' So true."" -Barbara Waxman, MS, MPA, PCC, coach, gerontologist, speaker, author of Middlescence Manifesto: Igniting the Passion of Midlife ""The Back Forty is a profound and engaging inquiry into what it takes to expand when society is betting you'll contract. For anyone seeking to clear their path of self-imposed obstacles, habits, behaviors and attitudes so they can build a rich and fulfilling second half of life, The Back Forty serves as a bible of empowerment."" -Sally Helgesen, author of How Women Rise, The Web of Inclusion, and The Female Advantage"

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"Darrell is a Life Changer, Executive Coach, Licensed Spiritual Counselor, Consultant, and Career Advisor who has been supporting people in all walks of life for over 30 years. Those he supports play bigger, perform at peak levels, create thriving lives and businesses, and make empowered career and life transitions. Founder of TheBackForty.com and CareerGuy.com, he's written several books and edited professional journals on the topics of finding one's passion, midlife pursuit of purpose, effective relationship building and career transition. His work has been endorsed by best-selling authors and inspiring luminaries such as Marshall Goldsmith, Chip Conley, Harvey Mackay, Keith Ferrazzi, Dr. Ivan Misner, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Cynthia Kersey, to name a few.Darrell's most recent work, The Back Forty: 7 Critical Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half, is an inspirational guide and companion for designing a fulfilling second half of life under the premise that the first half of life was simply R & D, research and development, for who we came to be and what we came to do. Our bigger game is always ahead, no matter what our age or what we've been through. As Frank Sinatra sang, ""the best is yet to come and, babe, won't it be fine!"""

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