Triumph Over the Obstacles
in Midlife and Beyond

The latest meme to hit social media is Quiet Quitting. It’s as if this has suddenly appeared as a result of the COVID crisis, but it’s been around for a long time. In my opinion, it’s a result of poor leadership, lack of purpose, and lack of human connection and...

The problem with imagination is that we don’t know how to use it. We stand on the precipice between imagining the best of what could be or the worst of what is. Too often we imagine the worst of what is and bring that into our lives and the lives of others. The Law of...

Sometimes I feel like a trapeze artist who has the potential to do beautiful, athletic somersaults in the air but can’t let go of the trapeze. My partner is waiting for me, calling me, but I just keep swinging back and forth, going nowhere. A common theme in all...

My host offered to give me a ride back to the hotel after our dinner party. “Would you like to go in the Maserati or the Tesla?” (Yes, It was a very nice dinner party.) I said, “Let’s go in the Tesla. I’ve heard they’re really fast.” When we got in the car, she said...

It was an unusual dinner party. The guests were from different generations. We gathered around a table in the garden of the host’s beautiful Los Angeles home and talked about the future. There was no jockeying for position or dominance at the table. No debates. Nobody...

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s easy to view our life on a spectrum of age, but maybe a better way would be...

"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death" - Auntie Mame My mother was unhappy in the later years of her life. She would always talk longingly about things she wanted to do, but she never did them. I don’t think she was a lot different from other...

Quit looking for a job, and start looking for a problem to solve. The job market isn’t about you, it’s about them. It’s not about helping you get a job because you need one, it’s about helping someone solve a problem. That might be a little harsh for some people, but...

Reality is what’s going on before it enters our operating system. What do I mean by “our operating system?” When a computer is assembled, it’s just hardware before the operating system is installed. At the moment of birth, we’re just hardware, with a very limited...