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My recent post, Why Retirement Confuses Knowledge Workers, generated a lot of emails and texts to me, almost all of them giving me a high-five. One person said, “To me and my friends, you might as well replace the word retirement with irrelevance. No one would ask a friend, ‘When are you thinking of irrelevance?’” ...
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We don’t need to live longer. We need to live deeper.And that doesn’t require a plane ticket or a new guru. It starts with this moment. This breath. This brave
April 18, 2025
As we write about in our Anatomy of a Transition free ebook, most personal or professional transitions can be mapped out into three stages: the ending, the messy middle, and
April 17, 2025
Rather than feeling befuddled or stuck, maybe it’s time to relish and release. Both of these words come from the “relaxare” French and Latin root. Relish is about loosening into
April 16, 2025
And, yet, our modern tendency is NOT to simplify, but to complicate. When we’re younger, we might have thought that a simple life is a boring life. But, by the
April 15, 2025
Thanks to MEA alum Anne Auburn shared this wise 22-minute video about the whispering soul. This Buddhist insight about how life can be lived after 60. It’s quite beautiful and
April 14, 2025
18th Century Philosopher Edmond Burke noted that “The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.” Curiosity is an intrinsic aspect of human development, observable from
April 13, 2025
I admire Jerry’s courage in publishing this Call to Action and look forward to co-leading a workshop with him in Santa Fe May 5-10, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of
April 12, 2025
“I belong here’ means that I belong here on this planet, where I have seldom felt safe or normal. It means that I belong here in this body, which I
April 11, 2025
We live in a time and society in which we warehouse wisdom in nursing homes and retirement communities. We’ve lost any sense of community ritual to help share the wisdom.
April 10, 2025
Boomers flow like ink on a page,Loops and swirls, wisdom with age.Letters dance, a personal touch,A signature that still means much.Millennials tap, fast and bright,Glowing screens, pixels in flight.A cursor
April 9, 2025
Let me summarize both, but first let’s clarify terms: Gen Xers were born between 1964 and 1980. In a grossly generalized way, they are seen as a self-sufficient, rebellious generation
April 8, 2025
As I moved into my 20s and 30s, I worked out regularly (I came out as a gay man at 22 so this was par for the course as the
April 7, 2025
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