Photo by Medium Rare on Unsplash Makeagingwork.com is going to take the summer off! After publishing 289 weekly posts and missing less than a half-dozen weeks across nearly six years of posting, I’m taking a break. Frankly, my brain has too many tabs open at the moment and I’m afraid of “mailing it in” to maintain the consistency.… Continue reading I’m Taking a Sabbatical!
Author: Gary
How Prepared Are You For The Emerging Healthcare Crisis?
I guess by now, many of you know that I spend a considerable chunk of my time waltzing on the periphery of healthcare as a career coach, resume writer and LinkedIn strategist for healthcare C-suite and physician executives. I’m fortunate to engage some amazing people – smart, committed, high-integrity, and dedicated to trying to make… Continue reading How Prepared Are You For The Emerging Healthcare Crisis?
Where Do You Go With Your Wisdom? Don’t Waste It On An 88-year Old Retirement Model.
Image by Georgi Dyulgerov from Pixabay Shouldn’t we, as “modern elders” be marrying our wisdom to others, somehow, someway? We’ve piled up 30, 40, 50 years of it. Where does it make sense to hoard it, warehouse it, let it go stale? OK, so you don’t feel like you are wise. Wrong, dear friend! You have your own… Continue reading Where Do You Go With Your Wisdom? Don’t Waste It On An 88-year Old Retirement Model.
What Happens When Our Doctors Don’t Like Or Trust Our Healthcare System? Positive Change May Be Coming!
I’m going to step aside and let someone else take center on my little stage this week. An article appeared in my daily Medium.com feed this week on a topic I’ve riffed on repeatedly across the near six-year life of this blog: Our hosed-up medical system. Published in the Nuance publication and written by veteran… Continue reading What Happens When Our Doctors Don’t Like Or Trust Our Healthcare System? Positive Change May Be Coming!
How does one work 40 hours a week, have time to cook healthy meals, sleep 8 hours a night, and go to the gym?
Photo by Julien L on Unsplash I suspect most of the advice you will get on this will say better “time management.” At the risk of sounding insulting, let me remind you that we can’t “manage time.” Time is fixed, immutable and unchanging. It manages itself and we can’t change what exists for us to function within. You can’t change that… Continue reading How does one work 40 hours a week, have time to cook healthy meals, sleep 8 hours a night, and go to the gym?
Is Getting Old As Bad As Most People Think When They Are Young? I’m Not a Good One To Ask.
Photo by tabitha turner on Unsplash Would you agree that there is a prevailing attitude today that getting old really sucks? Especially amongst those who are a considerable distant from that inevitability. I found myself time traveling back to my youth and comparing my attitude to that of the youth of today. Attitudes in the 40s and 50s… Continue reading Is Getting Old As Bad As Most People Think When They Are Young? I’m Not a Good One To Ask.
Three Words That Can Change Life At Any Age: Choice, Creativity, Courage
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Raise your hand if you have found life to flow smoothly, without unexpected twists or turns. Crickets! Anyone here been sailing along, everything under control – good work, good health, enough money, things good at home, lots of friends – and then suddenly something knocks you off that plateau. If that hasn’t… Continue reading Three Words That Can Change Life At Any Age: Choice, Creativity, Courage
The Truth About Diets – They Are As Sensible As Lottery Tickets!
Raise your hand if you know someone who has gone on a diet at some point in their life (Yes, you can include yourself – I won’t tell anybody). Hmmm! Most everybody. Thanks for participating. Now, leave your hand up if that/those individual(s) stayed with it and adopted a change in their way of life.… Continue reading The Truth About Diets – They Are As Sensible As Lottery Tickets!
Can We “Unteach” Traditional Retirement? Maybe We Should.
Image by CoxinhaFotos from Pixabay Quiz for you: Name two major industries that are ripe for disruption but remain rigidly unassailable. If you guessed education and healthcare, you are spot on. Both are yellow brick roads to rising costs and decreased value. Both are heavyweight political playgrounds where the needle just doesn’t get moved. In his book “The… Continue reading Can We “Unteach” Traditional Retirement? Maybe We Should.
We Stopped Listening to the Ancient Greeks. It’s Costing Us.
I’m still working at 81. I blew right past that obligatory “65” retirement stop sign. I don’t remember seeing it. Some say I’m nuts, not realizing that’s the best compliment you can pay an oddball like me. I still get asked why I haven’t retired by those in my age cohort. There is a steady… Continue reading We Stopped Listening to the Ancient Greeks. It’s Costing Us.