The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

Great book perfect words to.hear at this time in my life. Very helpful advice, just what I needed to focus on!

I have read a number of books on what to do once retired [as I am myself]. Maat Kellys book about looking at this part of your life as your 4th quarter is likely the most thought provoking. As it ties this part of the journey of life into a partnership with God. It is useful in determining your true calling for this part of your life. The thought-provoking questions that are part of each chapter are helping me to focus on the challenges of this part of my life. I have extracted the more than 150 questions into a separate document to work on a few at a time. I cannot wait to reread to book a chapter at a time and answer the questions as relates to me. A great book to read if you are unsure of what to do now that you are retired.

I really enjoyed this book. I am 77 and felt that some points made in this book went right to my soul. I didn't use the workbook part, but I might later. The priorities I found interesting and useful. Easy to read at night when you don't need heavy stuff, but solid enough to read it again the next day. Recommended.

For everyone over 50 who is at a crossroad ! For anyone who needs a good foundation . Easy to read

The intent of this book is deeply practical. In brief, a call to “take stock”. It is written for individuals traveling north (61-80 and beyond). What the authors call “the fourth quarter”. This book is a call to face the reality that life is short. A call for great inner honesty. A call to name and to act on your “short list” priorities. A call to come to terms with finitude, death, faith. Really, all the big questions in a lived life. The authors invite us to be “pilgrims, not tourists”, and go deep and figure out what gives coherence to a well lived life. I applaud the two authors intentions here. I applaud their deep beliefs. Their Faith shapes and informs their thinking, their “5 keys” philosophy and approach. The authors are smart and accomplished and they write from the heart. Not arcane or academic. In fact, the common thread in this book is acting each day with faith and intentionality. To be explicit, this is not really a book. More a resource for journaling. A handbook as such for taking stock. As a book per se, it is weak. Thus, my average rating (3). The authors go wide but not deep. In that respect, this book is underwritten. In particular, the tasks of mapping your life story (chapters 14-16) are thin. That terrain and also how to work through regrets is vastly more complicated and more difficult to do than their book suggests. Those tasks require more in depth discussion. Maybe a separate book. Require more guiding ideas to help the reader make sense of their experience and both see what was not visible before and do the needed reparative work. You can’t change the past but the past can be redeemed through faith and inner discipline and moments of grace present in a life. My sense, overall, is the 40 short chapters in this book speak to large and important questions. Many readers will find these short chapters helpful. My sense is our answers to the reflective questions in this book and our acting with greater intentionality is what counts, not the depth and robustness of the book. Well worth working through the “taking stock” questions in this book.

I am a 75 year old woman and this book brought EVERYTHING together for me!!!!!!! Thank You, JESUS, for speaking to me through this author.

What an amazing writer, who gives you a fresh perspective looking back and looking ahead to make the most of your life!

More religious than I like, but workbook is helpful.

Me gusta mucho que puedas leer un capítulo por día y se me hizo muy corto e interesante el temaAdemás útil y significativo

I just love this book ! Such good solid practical advice faith based .So good for my soul