Me: Five Years from Now : The Life-Planning Book You Write Yourself

by Sheree Bykofsky, Richard Carlson

Bykofsky, Sheree, Carlson, Richard

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

Owner/Agent Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc.

Sheree Bykofsky is the author, co-author and editor of more than twenty books, including the best-selling The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published (Pearson), now in its fifth edition, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles (Pearson), The New York Public Library Desk Reference (Simon & Schuster), three editions of the regional bestseller The Best Places to Kiss in and Around New York City (Beginning, 3rd edition), The Big Book of Life’s Instructions, (Harper), Me: Five Years From Now (Warner, and then Hyperion), Sexy City Cocktails, (Adams), The Downtown Girl’s Guide to Wine: How to Buy, Serve and Sip with Style and Sophistication (Adams), Put Your House on a Diet (Rodale), Popping the Question: Real-Life Stories of Marriage Proposals From the Romantic to the Bizarre (Walker), The 52 Most Romantic Dates in and Around New York City (Adams), and Put Your House on a Diet (Rodale). Sheree has written articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including The Writer, which featured Sheree’s cover story “The Six Secrets of Getting Published.”

Sheree is also an avid poker player and author, with the late Lou Krieger, of Secrets the Pros Won’t Tell You About Winning Hold’Em Poker (Kensington), The Rules of Poker: The Ultimate Argument Settler (Kensington) and The Portable Poker Pro (Kensington). In December 2005 Sheree placed first out of 164 women who competed in the World Series of Poker Ladies’ Circuit Event at the Showboat in Atlantic City. And Sheree won a seat into the famous World Series of Poker two times.

Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. (Shereebee.com), AAR, represents hundreds of authors in all areas of adult non-fiction as well as adult and young adult literary and commercial fiction.

Reviews

[Tracie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book. Makes me stop and really consider who I want to be and what I want my life to be. It is not an easy book.

[Cheryl · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is good in the first couple of chapters. It repeats the same process for each category. Once you get the concept the rest of the book is some what of a waste.

[Courtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really old but it asks excellent questions. Pleasantly surprised! 5⭐️!

[°~Amy~° · Rating 2 out of 5]

First of all, I was disappointed to find out that this book was not written/designed by anyone with any type of medical psych background. The author is a literary agent that seems to write about whatever is selling at the moment (How to get published, best place to kiss in NY, guide to wine, how to declutter, etc.) I went through a couple of chapters and while I found the questions thought provoking, there is NO guidance at all as to how to get ahead when the barriers are all things that the individual answering the questions, or making the lists, have no control over whatsoever.

Second of all, the questions in each section were repetitious. The main set of questions for the chapter were nearly identical to the ones directed to the spouse relationship and the ones for a boyfriend/girlfriend/lover relationship AND to the ones for a friend AND to the ones for a person you HAVE to deal with. All of that could easily have been combined. It felt like the author was simply stretching the questions out to get to a certain page length.

Overall, writing your own life plan is a great idea, but hints on overcoming obstacles would be helpful too. If anything, when I was done answering the relationship and spouse questions and making the related lists I was convinced that I needed to get a divorce rather than bother to work on our issues. Gee, thanks for the help; our couples therapist will be thrilled, not.