One of my favorite authors, Richard Leider, is coming out with a new book, Something to Live For:  Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life, and I wanted to give everyone a heads up.  As a coach, I've been influenced a lot by Richard's thinking on purposeful living, and his books are featured prominently in the "recommended reading" section of my blog, Project Creative Vision. Needless to say, I'm eagerly anticipating the new book as well.

At a recent conference call about the book launch, Richard talked about how this book is taking his ideas about life purpose to a whole new, more spiritual level.  »more»

Yesterday I had a long conversation with an individual conducting research on the job prospects for "mature" workers, which is code for people over 50. We covered a lot of territory and I thought that a few of the key points were worthy of a post on LifeTwo. »more»

If you are asked to picture an entrepreneur, a tech-savvy male in his late twenties might be the image that comes to mind. While there is no shortage of high-tech start-ups by young male engineers, this is hardly the only type of entrepreneur. In fact, according to a story in the BBC, an increasing number of over-50s are starting their own businesses and many of these are women. »more»

The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that 43% of the U.S. labor force will become eligible to retire between 2004 and 2012. This means two primary things for middle aged workers. »more»

The Los Angeles Times writes about baby boomers using the increased equity in their homes to finance a reinvention of their lives. Notwithstanding recent housing woes, most boomers who have lived in their homes for more than a few years have a great deal of equity and are capable of using some of that to pay for a new start somewhere else. »more»

"...for the past 75 years federal policy has been designed around easing folks who are past 50 out of the workforce rather than enticing them to stay in it."

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What would you do if you suddenly became a multimillionaire? Sleep in every day? Golf? Say goodbye to the work life forever? Or would you go back to work?

The LA Times looked at a variety of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who had become millionaires and found the surprising answer that many of them in fact did go back to work. Take the example of Mark Pincus who sold his company for $38 million in 1996. For a year he lived a life with almost no responsibilities but eventually tired of the lifestyle, saying: »more»

“But I don’t know what I want to do?” This frustrated exclamation wasn’t coming from a twenty-something. This was my 52 year old coaching client. He had a 26 year career under his belt and wanted a change. He knew he wanted to take the early-out retirement being offered and start a new life. But doing what? »more»

Your career choice impacts your quality of life, standard of living, personal identity, and much more. By the time you hit middle age, career changes are far from easy, but many people feel a mismatch with the career that they had selected earlier in life and want to at least explore the possibility of pursuing a new career. Are you one of these people? »more»

Do not confuse hard work with workaholism.

People who work hard know the boundaries between their work lives and their personal lives, workaholics do not. Hard workers can function normally when not at work; workaholics cannot. Hard work is healthy, workaholism is not. »more»