Personal Safety Nets: Getting Ready for Life's Inevitable Changes and Challenges

by John W. Gibson

Book Overview

There are times in life when we all need support. When you create your own personal safety net you put together in a useful way all the plans, systems, resources and people who will help. Using real... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977922693
• ISBN13: 9780977922697
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Safety Nets Unlimited
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

helpful beyond just a personal saftey net

I found Personal Safety Nets very helpful when I need to move in a hurry. I built one quickly using the advice I found in the book. But then I realized that it was a great process for meeting any need that can best be managed by a group. I assembled a group to help in a school project, and then using the same methods, found people to maintain what we did on an ongoing basis. This book is a gem in how to manage groups, delegate responsibilities, and avoid group member burnout, for any kind of an organization, whether it is to help in a personal crisis or gather to protect or improve a community. I am so glad I read it, and highly recommend that anyone read it, if for no other reason than to learn it is okay to ask for help when you need it. That it is, in fact, a gift of service that you are offering to your friends and neighbors. Everyone benefits.

Personal Safety Nets; Getting Ready for Life's Inevitable Changes and Challenges

I found this book incredibly helpful when I needed it the most! Lots of suggestions on ways to weave a safety net, tools on how to ask for help and true life stories I found engaging and heartwarming. I sleep better at night, knowing I have my safety net in place.

You Don't Have to Fear the Future

Social safety nets obviously exist, such as Social Security and Medicare, but both these programs are under severe financial strain with an ever aging population. This book focuses on helping people make their own plans for the inevitable major transitions in their lives, so that they have a prearranged support team ready to go - and can work through the issues involved in getting and retaining that network of help. Be it a change in your health, your marriage, your lifestyle or a crisis for your family or friends, "Personal Safety Nets" gives you the luxury of learning from other people's experiences and provides both resources and inspiration to create a safety net tailored made for each individual.

A useful, no-nonsense tool

Whether it's anxiety and fear from cancer, dementia, a sudden disability, or preparing for the final goodbye, Personal Safety Nets offers practical, honest tools for both caregivers and care recipients. For example, there are scripting and sample letters for people who might prefer death to asking anyone for help, a self test to distinguish between grief and depression, and dozens of illustrative real-life scenarios (including successes and failures.) Personal Safety Nets doesn't promote yet another speakers-circuit concept nor any religious or political point of view, which I find refreshing. As a man who had a full-time, demanding job and suddenly became a single father with two young boys, I wish I'd had this book 25 years ago! I am buying an extra copy to give or loan to a friend or loved-one when it's needed, and I'm keeping the original on my "keepers" bookshelf.