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Thoughts on the art of living
Recently, I’ve started to wonder how my experience of life would change if I embraced aging as an invitation to radical openness. I’m not talking about simply becoming more open-minded, curious, and vulnerable, though I am fully committed to those practices. When I say radical, I mean it. I’m compelled by the idea of a ...
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MEA alum Marcie Merriman and family friend Zak Dychtwald recently created this “First Global Generation” report, published by Ernst & Young and, wow, is it full of insights. There are
August 5, 2025
Of course, they’re referring to my Stage-3 prostate cancer. As many of you know since I wrote about it quite a bit in this daily blog, during a short period
August 4, 2025
This week’s MIDLIFE CHRYSALIS episode features a soulful conversation with writer and global nomad Pico Iyer, whose reflections on stillness, solitude, and the inner journey have inspired readers for decades.
August 1, 2025
It took me three weeks to write this post. The first 20 days were spent ruminating. This morning, I knocked out the post. Writing it wasn’t hard. Beginning it was.
August 1, 2025
I used to think joy was something I would build—architected, scaled, delivered. For decades I worked at the intersection of innovation and communication, building companies and communities, crafting messages meant
August 1, 2025
In midlife, as the noise of external validation fades, intuition grows louder. We begin to know things without evidence. We dream things before they happen. We feel truths that others
July 30, 2025
Why do so many people have an immediate, intuitive grasp of this highly abstract concept called “subjective age?” As Jennifer Senior in a recent Atlantic article suggests, “Most of us
July 29, 2025
One of my recent blog posts about the soul went crazy viral which meant I had a lot of deep, soulful people reaching out to me including Geoffrey Fenton who
July 28, 2025
While headlines swirl with AI breakthroughs and economic disruption, a deeper shift is unfolding, one that touches not just how we work, but how we relate, lead, and make meaning.
July 27, 2025
As he was finishing the manuscript for Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl gave a series of lectures in Vienna in which he said, “It is not we who are
July 26, 2025
With just two axes and a Sharpie, I can transform anything—from my weekend plans to my spiritual angst—into a clean visual that makes me feel like I understand the universe
July 25, 2025
For years, I’ve quoted J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye: “Happiness is a solid. Joy is a liquid.” I love that it distills the difference between these two
July 24, 2025
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