I’m Taking a Sabbatical!

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]