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Review: Trade Up: How to Move from Just Making Money to Making a Difference by Dean Niewolny

Review: Trade Up: How to Move from Just Making Money to Making a Difference Dean Niewolny Baker Books 2017 Who is Dean Niewolny and what is Halftime Institute?   Without spoiling the book for you, Niewolny is the guy that discovered there is more to life than money and did something about it.   Halftime Institute is an organization that helped him do that.   And now he heads it up.   So, he’s not talking theory in this book.   He lived it.    Like most projects a good plan helps achieve a good outcome.   Trade Up describes that plan along with some advice related to some of the challenges a person can encounter shifting from just making money to making a difference.   It’s about discovery, strengths, and passions, gifting, and the journey itself.   It is not just sell all your possessions and go live among the downtrodden of some remote place you didn’t know existed.   That could be the outcome, but for most it is more like tweaking and adjusting.   And that doesn’t