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 […]
Starting Over at 35 in Costa Rica
Brett Schroeder’s story about giving up his life in the advertising business to live “minimally” in Costa Rica for the past 10 years is surprisingly tempting, even for me, and I’m a city kinda guy. To make a new life for himself, he had to improvise, which included starting a business and hustling for odd […]
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 […]
Expatriate Living: The Total Life Transplant
The ultimate voluntary destruction of my comfort zone would be for me to move permanently to another country. Not knowing the language or the local customs and not having any friends or family to rely on, I’d be a stranger in a strange land. Today I’m the same old me drifting around my neighborhood, knowing […]
How to Fail as an Entrepreneur
Just follow the advice offered by Leo Babauta in his recent post on zenhabits.net, “The Not Knowing Path of Being an Entrepreneur.” I’m a fan of Leo’s. I read zenhabits regularly, and I have bought his excellent book,The Power of Less, which I’ve read twice. For the most part, I find Leo’s Buddhist worldview […]
Midlife Gap Years: Vision Quests for Boomers
I found a series of three interesting articles by journalist and author David Ferrell, focusing on travel and its transformative effects. The first examines the concept of midlife gap years — “self-authorized career breaks [to] reap the restorative benefits of time off.” And not just time off loafing around the neighborhood, but extended personal sabbaticals in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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About The Author
I’m Rick Barlow, and I’ve created The Rest of Your Life because I am drawn to stories of personal change and reinvention. They fascinate me. So I’ve decided to make a place where I can collect, explore and share these stories, and provide information to people interested in creating change in their own lives.
