Mid-Life Crisis (MLC) is very much like childbirth...whether it be for a man or a woman, it is the re-birthing of a person....it has it's stages of labor...and we transition from one stage to another.  Many women handle this birthing better than others...many choose to take medication or numb themselves to get through it, while others opt to have a C- section and remove themselves, so they can be »more»

A new study, recently published in the journal Neurology, sheds more light on the relationship between education and Alzheimer's disease. Started in the 1980s, the study tracked almost 500 people born from 1894 and 1908; eventually 117 of them developed Alzheimer's or another dementia. »more»

The National Law Journal recently wrote that people who want to make a second career as an attorney shouldn't expect to find work at big firms. »more»

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Master Mind groups are formal groups (I recommend no more than 4) that come together in person or by phone to support each other in whatever the individuals want help on. It harnesses the synergy of a team that you normally find in an organizational environment. »more»

You may have read my other posts and know I work with professional men in the middle of their lives who are dissatisfied with how it is going.

There is a restlessness and unease that many men struggle with that I call the Disquiet. »more»

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After many years of working around human development, I have watched people who go through significant growth experience stress in their families. Even when change is for the better, change is still change. »more»

Author Gretchen Rubin has a blog about Happiness and every Wednesday she posts a tip. Our tip today is to check out her blog, at least on Wednesdays. Her blog is a reflection of a book project she is doing which will be a memoir about the year she is spending test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study she can find, "whether from Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah". She'll gather these rules for living and report on what works and what doesn’t. »more»

While arguably a book written for parents deciding whether or not to homeschool their children, or perhaps educators looking for insight into how to improve educational methods, "The Call to Brilliance" is also a personal story and shows what just one person can accomplish when they follow their instincts even against such an ingrained institution as our educational system. »more»

Add the following to the ever growing reasons to engage in lifelong education: it postpones Alzheimer's disease. »more»

Want to live a long life? If you do, and of course you do, then stay in school. That's one possible takeaway from research being done by James Smith, a health economist at the RAND Corporation. »more»

Is the secret to happiness low expectations and a winning soccer team?

Last summer researchers at the UK's University of Leicester published a study which concluded that the good people of Denmark were the "happiest people on earth." »more»

A forty year study of nearly six thousand people makes it clear that midlife health is directly correlated to longevity and health in old age.

The good news: your health decades from now is very much under your control today. »more»

Gen Plus points us to a series of press releases concerning the intersection between lifelong learning and senior living environments. The concept is "university-branded 55+ active adult communities that are tightly integrated with their academic hosts." »more»

When Rodney Dangerfield went "Back to School" in the 1986 movie, the idea of a sixty-something person going back to college was the comic premise of the film. »more»