Prime Time

Love, Health, Sex, Fitness, Friendship, Spirit - Making the Most of All of Your Life

By: Jane Fonda

Narrated by: Jane Fonda

In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, number one best-selling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A-to-Z.

Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others, Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the energetic, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living, Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, a life lived more profoundly in touch with ourselves, our bodies, minds, and spirits, and with our talents, friends, and communities. In her research, Fonda discovered two metaphors, the arch and the staircase, that became for her two visions of life. She shows how to see your life the staircase way, as one of continual ascent. She explains how she came to understand the earlier decades of her life by performing a life review, and she shows how you can do a life review too.

She reveals how her own life review enabled her to let go of old patterns, to see what means the most to her, and then to cultivate new goals and dreams, to make the most of the mature years. For there has been a longevity revolution, and the average human life expectancy has jumped by years. Fonda asks, what we are meant to do with this precious gift of time? And she writes about how we can navigate the fertile voids that life periodically presents to us. She makes suggestions about exercise (including three key movements for optimal health), diet (how to eat by color), meditation, and how learning new things and creating fresh pathways in your brain can add quality to your life. Fonda writes of positivity, and why many people are happier in the second half of their lives than they have ever been before.

In her number one New York Times best-selling memoir, My Life So Far, Jane Fonda focused on the first half of her extraordinary life - what she called Acts I and II - with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now we have a thoughtfully articulated memoir and guide for how to make all of your life, and especially Act III, Prime Time.

©2011 Jane Fonda (P)2011 Random House Audio

Great book!

Hands-down a fantastic book. Jane is eloquent, humble, educated & informed. I wish the audiobook had a PDF attachment of the exercises.

Inspiring, with good sciene and philosophies.

I found this book inspiring (I'm 53) and was fascinated with getting to know Jane Fonda. She is very open and personal, and it is especially imitate hearing her story from her own voice. She gives a lot of detailed science and has done her homework well. It is a good book for anyone at "crossroads" in life. I am looking the 3rd act right in the eye, and with retirement coming soon, I found a lot of motivation to jump into my new life in a meaningful way. She gave a spiritual perspective close to mine, and I was very surprised to hear it from her. I use to "jump with Jane" in the 80's, and now I am listening to her to learn life philosophies. Fascinating.

Superb Inspiration

I’ve been inspired by Jane Fonda for decades! This book provides an understanding about who she was and what she was involved in when I first heard of her in the 60’s. I’m grateful she candidly shares her life experiences, hardships, stories, insights and information.

A Lifetime of Wisdom Distilled

I was raised with prejudice against Ms. Fonda and that was to my loss. Thankfully a friend suggested "Grace & Frankie" it's obvious Ms. Fonda has lived fully.The truth she shares in this book would benefit everyone I know and particularly my own experience. Grateful for her work and wisdom. if I had a hard copy I would place it besides Dr. Northrup

Excellent information and advice for aging

Jane Fonda is easy to listen to as she reads this book. She's an intelligent and interesting woman who did lots of research and mixes that with relevant stories. I think this is a great book for any woman age 50 or over as a guide to how to get the most out of the third act of life.

Surprisingly insightful

I watched an interview with Jane Fonda recently and thought she has aged beautifully, is sensitive and articulate with the ability to laugh at herself. I’d like to age with such grace and since I am about to enter my “third act” as Jane Fonda calls 60+, I was open to the lessons Fonda had for me.

I have come away with mixed reviews. I did learn things, I was also bored by some of the more elementary sections of information.

What I liked and appreciated was being read aloud to by Jane Fonda. Her voice was faltering and slow but it felt personal and for the most part sincere. I learned about generativity which for me is a new concept. I want my “third act” to be based on this new concept. I learned about other books, doctors, and authors that Fonda quoted. I plan to look into reading these books, learning about the doctors. I enjoyed some of Fonda’s confessions, self disclosures, and anecdotes.

What I didn’t like was that the book read too much like a very basic “how to” book. The part about what to eat, the lists of foods or amounts of foods was not necessary. For some of us this is far too elementary.

I think Fonda is intelligent and witty. I think she is a great actor and did wonders for the fitness boom especially for women. I appreciate that she quoted lots of doctors. However I feel that some subjects should have been left for experts. These areas fell short of insights or credibility.

I was able to find wisdom. I really like the concept of a “third act”. This appealed to me and I found myself feeling more hopeful as I shortly enter my “third act”.

Jane's French Accent!

I dearly love Jane Fonda and this book had some very important life lessons but it's not as accessable as her autobiography, "My Life So Far". Her reading was a little stilted but I did appreciate it. it was all worth it in the last chapter when she did a wonderful French Accent during a wonderful story from Jean Houston about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Beautiful!!!!

Truth be told, I will buy the print version because there are lots of lists, details and appendices that need to be learned and managed but the book is probably a better read than listen. Not Jane's best performance but an important gift of life's lessons for all of us.

valuable information

very detailed and in depth research on every aspect imaginable for this Timeperiod of life

I will embrace the inevitable!

I'm 37 years old and am no longer declaring war on the fine lines and wrinkles appearing on my face.I view them now as evidence that I have lived.My goal for the end of Act Two is to have prominent crows feet...and a lesser prominent furrowed brow.This book has helped me embrace,rather than fear the inevitable.I have a lot of work to do,and a lot of changes to make,but all of this can be done.I'm looking forward to living fully through my second and third acts.Thank you Ms.Fonda.

Very Detailed & Informative

As I enter my 3rd phase, it gave me alot to think about. Things I hadn't considered and possible solutions to challenges I will likely face in my future. Great information on delicate matters that can be hard to ask or talk about.