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Imagine You Renewed

If you woke up today bored and restless before you even managed to pull yourself out of bed, you might need a shot of reinvention. Lucky you. Jane Pauley has a jolt for your imagination. In Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life, Ms. Pauley has combined a self-effacing personal memoir (her second) […]

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Midlife Makeover: The Writer Is In

Pat Stirnkorb was a salesperson, but she knew in her heart she was a writer. Writing made her happy. Once she felt free to embrace that reality, it became her destiny. “This is what I love. This is my gift. I love every moment of being on the keyboard and in front of my monitor.” Her […]

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Boomers Relaunch into Retirement

I enjoyed this piece by Rodney Brooks in USA Today exploring a number of Baby Boomer reinventions. He looks at people who decide to write and publish books, people who turn their talents to helping others (Benefactors), and people who start their own businesses (CEOwners). Although writing a book is no easier than it ever was, getting […]

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To Reinvent Yourself, Defeat Your Lizard Brain and Ship!

If you’re wondering why you’ve spent the last several months or years or maybe your entire adult life up to now thinking about things you’d like to do or be or know, but not acting on those desires, Seth Godin can enlighten you. It’s your “Lizard Brain” – that deeply ingrained subliminal aversion to any […]

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Baby Boomers Ready to Change the World…Again

Marc Freedman of Encore.org is leading a kind of “do-gooder revolution,” aimed at convincing Baby Boomers to atone in advance for their predicted future drain on society’s resources. In his book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, Marc envisions a 21st Century wave of social transformation as Baby Boomers shift their focus from self to society. Challenging […]

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Ramblers: Living to Travel

When I was 17, I read Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road.” Travel was never the same for me again. Up to that point, trips were all about the destination. The journey itself was something to be endured, hours of boredom and distraction over pre-interstate two-lane highways or steel rails. Even the destinations were limited to […]

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Retirement Reimagined

For most of my life I thought of retirement as something people did when they were too worn out to do anything else. Retirement meant having nothing important to do and nobody important interested in what you did. It was the end of things. You retired when you could finally afford to leave work that […]

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Lane Changers: Upgrading Life

Lane Changers are people who change careers to pursue their joy or follow their purpose. I’m not talking here about just changing jobs, making some minor alteration within an established career. I’m talking about major change, reinventing yourself, like the guy who sold his business and went back to school at age 65 to become […]

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CEOwners: “It’s good to be da king.”

“It’s good to be da king.” (Mel Brooks, The History of the World, Part I) How would your life be different if you woke up every day as the Chief Executive Officer and owner of your own company? What would it be like to be the boss, making the decisions and creating your own business […]

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