Is This All There Is?

Is This All There Is?

The Question That Signals It’s Time for a Career Change You’ve built a good life. A solid career. A respected title. A track record of success. Maybe you’ve even checked most of the boxes: education, family, the house, the portfolio. And yet…There’s that quiet,...
Lost In A Dark Wood

Lost In A Dark Wood

I was lost. Hopelessly lost. “In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood with no clear way out.” So begins Dante’s Divine Comedy. That was me. It wasn’t comedy. I was bored; restless, unhappy. Yearning for something more, different,...
Never Retire

Never Retire

What if you never retire? I was listening to a group of people talk about retirement the other day. They were dreaming about the day they’d be done with work. And then wondering what they’d do to stay engaged. How they’d avoid boredom. What might give them purpose. I...
Before The Clay Hardens

Before The Clay Hardens

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time.  Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. —...
When The Music Stopped

When The Music Stopped

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I...