Smorgasbord Book Reviews – #Life #Death – Making Your Mark – Leaving a Legacy – And then… A Grand Exit That’ll Have Their Tongues Waggin’ by Peter Davidson

Delighted to welcome a new author to the bookshelf Peter Davidson with his books and today I am featuring his most recent that is enjoying great reviews. Making Your Mark | Leaving a Legacy | And then… A Grand Exit That’ll Have Their Tongues Waggin’

About the book

If you want your life to amount to more than just anonymously passing through this world unnoticed, this book is for you. It describes how you can make your mark on your family, friends, and society and how you can create a legacy that will benefit future generations.

When the time comes for you to leave this world, you can go out with class, style, and pizzazz, just like you lived your life, There are many options, possibilities, and decisions involved in planning a final farewell as we will see as we watch the Grand Exit of Timothy A.B. Smythe. Timothy’s Grand Exit will have people’s tongues waggin’ for a long time and it can serve as an inspiration for your final farewell, when the time comes.

Much of the information in the book is presented in true stories, scenarios, and examples that are upbeat, often humorous, and fun to read.

My review for the book August 27th 2022

An interesting and entertaining exploration of our expiry date which is inevitable but not necessarily predictable. Whether you have forewarning of the event, or it comes out of the blue, Peter Davidson proposes some pre-event planning to make sure your name not only lives on in the hearts and minds of friends and loved ones, but they get a kick out of the proceedings.

In the first part of this manual on Making Your Mark, the author has clearly given great thought to the inventive ways we can make sure we are remembered.  This might range from having cards delivered for years to come on meaningful dates to creating a scholarship awarding a few hundred dollars to a deserving student in your name. Perhaps a golf tournament with a quirky price or even writing a book. Certainly being on a social media platform offers infinite possibilities as unless someone makes the effort, your account will live on forever.

There are some suggestions that illustrate that there is more than a little prankster at play here especially in the weeks following your demise, with enigmatic messages alluding to some buried treasure ‘somewhere’ in the garden, or possibly in the safe which is protected with a code that relies on an intimate knowledge of the author’s life.

Peter Davidson has more than enough suggestions, strategies and ingenious ploys to make sure they will never forget your name.

The second part of the book is a blow by blow account of how Tim transforms his prognosis into an opportunity to ensure both his legacy and his name will be cause for celebration. Whilst much loved by family and friends and sorely missed, after the spectacular wake, funeral and after party the tears were not just for sorrow but from laughter.

What a way to go. I have bookmarked some pages and whilst hopefully some time before I need to implement some of the suggestions, there is no time like the present for making a name for yourself.

A thoughtful and entertaining read that comes highly recommended.

Read the reviews and buy the book: Amazon US – Amazon UK – More reviews: Goodreads

Also by Peter Davidson

Read the reviews and buy the books: Amazon US – And: Amazon UK – Follow Peter: Goodreads –  LinkedIn: Peter Davidson – Twitter: @PeterDa91822406 – Email contact; peterdavidson129@gmail.com

About Peter Davidson

Peter Davidson is the author or co-author of thirty books published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Perigee/Putnam Publishers, Haworth Press, Sweet Memories Publishing, and Northwestern Publishing. His works include fiction, nonfiction, college textbooks, and children’s picture books.

For more than two decades, Davidson was one of America’s most active writer’s seminar presenters, having presented 637 one-day seminars in a 15-state area from Minnesosta to Tennessee and Colorado to Illinois. Davidson’s hobby is writing songs and one of his songs was used in a television series in The Netherlands.

Davidson has owned several small businesses, including a professional recording studio, has been a real estate salesman, and has taught business courses in a community college. Davidson trained more than 700 real estate agents, something for which he will undoubtedly have to answer for on Judgement Day.

Whatever else Davidson has been involved in throughout his life, he kept on writing.

 

Thank you for dropping in today and I hope you will be leaving with some books… thanks Sally.