Being a Proactive Grandfather
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There are a lot of us guys between 55 75 wondering what to do next. Still, plenty of energy and more capacity than ever before at the peak of our powers. So what? Keep working until we die. Extend the routine retire, find a house on a golf course pullback, Dry up travel, leave everyone and everything behind, start a new career. Start over and take risk. What if we want a little of all these, but we want something mawr. For most of us, there is another option for our effort and energy, our focus and force hidden in plain sight, right under our noses, grandkids, little extensions of ourselves, legacies growing up in a world that is harder and more complex than ours. Waas or our kids Waas, they need us and we need them. There could be symbiosis. We know there is delight there and opportunity, but we don't know how or when, or even what. We're not confident as grandfathers, and our role is not clear. That's the reason for this book. You may have noticed that the first big word in this book's title is being that is because this is less a book about doing that about becoming being an exceptional grandfather is not about changing your grandkids. It is about changing yourself. It is about being the kind of grandfather your grandkids need. The second big word in the title is grand. What is the grand main in grandfather? Well, technically, from the etymology dictionary, grand means one generation removed in ascent. I didn't love that definition, so I looked up grand in the regular dictionary and found something much better, magnificent or splendid. And the second definition wasn't bad, either. Noble or revered. It is well to remember, of course, that your grandkids are not my grandkids. My family situation is not your family situation, your financial and personal circumstances or not. My circumstances. My life is not your life, and yours is not mine. Each of us is unique, so it is not likely or prudent that you will copy or replicate my suggestions or try to clone what I am trying to become as a grandfather. That's not the point. The point, and the goal is that we all think about this stage of life, that we share ideas and perspectives, and that each of us comes up with our personal and unique strategy for being grand fathers. Once again, keep in mind that this is not a book about grandkids or what you want to make of them or turn them into It is a book about grandfathering about what you want to be about, the kind of granddad you want to become. Since you don't have to be a disciplinarian or a friend monitor or a taxi driver or an agenda maker and scheduler or an allowance giver or a feeder and a clothier like you were a za dad, you can now choose other roles to play as a granddad. Fund rolls, joyous rolls difference making roles, roles that could help your grandkids make good decisions, find their gifts, fulfill their potential and transform their confidence and identity. There are 10 things I want to do for my grandchildren. 10. Gifts. I want to give them 10 blessings that I am perfectly positioned and uniquely qualified to deliver 10 things I want to be for them. 10 rolls I want to play in their lives. 10 things I believe I can become for them if I work hard enough at each of them. And those 10 things are the 10 chapters of this book