Please forgive me for taking a shortcut this week. We have spent an exhausting week moving to another home and I haven’t had the energy or bandwidth to push any creative content buttons. I’m reposting an article I submitted a few weeks ago to a question on Quora.com that has been garnering some… Continue reading Do you really care if you live to old age or not?
Category: Career
You Are “Rare and Valuable” – Don’t Waste It By Retiring!
I’ve been pigging out recently on young, contrarian author and Georgetown University computer science professor, Cal Newport, rereading two of his books and watching lots of his many YouTube podcast interviews. The podcasts provide a welcome and productive relief of the boredom of my daily visits to the treadmill and upright bike. I guess you… Continue reading You Are “Rare and Valuable” – Don’t Waste It By Retiring!
Is There a “Capstone Career” in Your Future?
My “9-to-5” these days is writing resumes, developing LinkedIn profiles and networking strategies, and providing career transition assistance for mid-to-late career professionals, mostly in the healthcare space. I’m fortunate to be able to connect with some very committed and talented folks on a pretty deep level as I help them with these components of their… Continue reading Is There a “Capstone Career” in Your Future?
A New Model for Aging: Subtract 20 Years From Your Chronological Age.
I pulled another book at random off my “A” shelf this week as I wait for Amazon to deliver my latest new book purchase. It turns out the book’s kind of an oldie, published in 1999. As I began my reread, I quickly realized why it was on the “A” shelf even with that publication… Continue reading A New Model for Aging: Subtract 20 Years From Your Chronological Age.
Escaping Your Cultural Captors – Your Portal May Be Pooping On Your Potential!
Have you ever thought of yourself as being in a “cultural fishbowl?” News alert! You’re in one! If you’re 16, you are in a cultural fishbowl with the world watching to see how well you manage your rebelliousness and bone-headedness. If you are 60, your cultural fishbowl is being watched by a crowd with a… Continue reading Escaping Your Cultural Captors – Your Portal May Be Pooping On Your Potential!
Five Critical Steps to Thriving Within Your Longevity Bonus
You’ve heard it a thousand times. We’re living longer. Yay! We extended our average lifespan more in 110 years than we did in the previous 100,000 years. That’s quite a hockey-stick performance. Makes you wonder why we waited so long. What was so magic about the 20th century? I guess you could say that a… Continue reading Five Critical Steps to Thriving Within Your Longevity Bonus
You’re Over 50 and On The Back-Nine. How Are You Going to Play It?
For the last few summers, I’ve been playing golf in a senior men’s league at a local muni. It’s a mid-week event, so this group is mostly retirees mixed with a few business owners who can step away from their businesses for a day. This is truly a geriatric bunch – the average age is… Continue reading You’re Over 50 and On The Back-Nine. How Are You Going to Play It?
Work Yourself to Death? Not a Bad Idea!
I happened across an old article recently about “the oldest working CEO in the United States.” It was about Jack A. Weill, founder and CEO of Rockmount Ranchwear, a Denver-based manufacturer of western wear. Jack died in 2008 at 109. He was working as the CEO of Rockmount at 106, showing up daily for four… Continue reading Work Yourself to Death? Not a Bad Idea!
“R” Words Are Important – Here’s Five That We Need For Our “Second-half”
In June 2018, I posted a blog that became one of my more popular posts. It’s entitled “Your Second Half Should Be Filled With These Four-letter Words” – click on it and become enlightened (How’s that for a dose of arrogance?) It even became one of the more popular blogs on Next Avenue for several weeks.… Continue reading “R” Words Are Important – Here’s Five That We Need For Our “Second-half”
Post COVID, Can We “Be Better Than Before?” Yes! Here’s How.
Last week was an interesting and somewhat grueling week for me, attending back-to-back, multi-day virtual conferences for two separate organizations I’m affiliated with. These were high-level conferences that one would normally fly to and pay dearly for hotel, meals, et. al. Both were amazingly effective – the technology, with a few minor hiccups, worked amazingly… Continue reading Post COVID, Can We “Be Better Than Before?” Yes! Here’s How.