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Maybe You’re Not Being Heard
Frustration clouds my focus when a presenter fails to use a microphone. I’ve experienced total hearing loss in one ear since age 28 and I can’t tell you how often I’ve been required to “fill in the blanks” when I couldn’t hear all the words. Unfortunately, speaking louder does not provide the clarity.
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Go for Mediocrity!
Yes, rather than wait until the perfect timing; the ideal setting; the precise motivation; just go for average. Be persistent in your commitment to your goal. That’s the ticket! Get started, even if it means going for, heavens forbid mediocrity.
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At Any Age, You Are Far More Capable—Prove It!
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I remember being 17 and thinking that turning 30 would be the pinnacle of one’s life. Moreover, I thought that beyond age 30 it was all downhill, not even worthy of contemplating.
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Finding Your Identity in the 3rd/3rd (and why it matters!)
Here is a stark reality of the 3rd/3rd of life: for most of us, it requires a search for our new identity. Except this time, we don’t have an entire lifetime ahead to try things on and try them out.
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Adjustment Time
Why is it that the people who truly dislike animals seem to attract them and then commence to have a horrible time attempting to be rid of them throughout the visitation? As an animal lover and owner, often thoughts would center on not being friends with anyone who did not love animals.
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Lessons from Planning for Retirement
Get your Ph. D. in retirement and semi-retirement, one of the things aging people do. Learn what you want and like, factor in the responsibilities and duties that still are there, often-big ones. Make it happen and let it happen too.
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Believing is Seeing: 3 Later Life Myths It’s Useful to Jettison
As an executive coach, I work with career professionals of all ages. But I also offer a coaching program to help people 60-years-old and over intentionally create the life of their dreams for this life stage. With virtually everyone in the program I encounter three myths.
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