Key pointsTalk to your friends, family, or a therapist. Get involved in activities that you enjoy and that connect you with others. Learn as much as you can about aging and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Make a plan for your future, including your finances, health care, and housing. When you think […]
Key pointsThere are challenges and benefits to becoming an empty nester. Social isolation is a real risk for empty nesters. Empty nests require parents to forge a new relationship to themselves as well as to their children. The parenting journey is an incredible, transformative experience marked by milestones and memories. As children mature and venture […]
Key pointsBetter to give than to receive—it’s actually true Giving leads to legacy. Giving can change the world. The impact of giving is greater than receiving. Would you give away your most precious possession? Something that held tremendous meaning and personal value to you? Giving things away can be a meaningful and fulfilling experience, especially […]
When you introduce yourself, how do you identify yourself beyond your name? Likely, you identify yourself with your job title: teacher, lawyer, professor, doctor, police officer, entrepreneur, banker…. You get the gist. Our job title is our go-to for letting people know who we are, and it is common for us to internalize our identity […]
Key pointsThink in terms of more than one mentor. Set specific goals with your mentor(s). Be proactive. Mentorship is a lifelong pursuit. We never stop needing a mentor, even when we become mentors. Mentors offer guidance, support, transfer of expertise, and act as models for mentees. But what is expected of a mentee, especially mentees […]
Key pointsNot all the benefits of mentoring accrue to the mentees. Mentors benefit in multiple ways from mentoring. Among the benefits of mentoring: seeing one’s knowledge deployed in creative new ways. Mentors find personal renewal in mentoring. Question: What do a teacher, editor, real estate agent, project manager, professor, transformational thought leader, and psychoanalyst have […]
Key pointsNot all the benefits of mentoring accrue to the mentees. Mentors benefit in multiple ways from mentoring. Among the benefits of mentoring: seeing one’s knowledge deployed in creative new ways. Mentors find personal renewal in mentoring. Question: What do a teacher, editor, real estate agent, project manager, professor, transformational thought leader, and psychoanalyst have […]
Key pointsA legacy tree is like a family tree, but it displays the impact we make. A legacy tree is a form of immortaltiy. We spend a lot of time at work. A legacy tree makes visible the effect of our work. More than 15 million individuals trace their family’s roots using Ancestry.com, the world’s […]
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Michael Friedman and I just recorded a livestream that brings aging out of the abstract and into real life. Michael is in his 80s; I’m in my 50s. Between us, we bring more than 75 […]
Key pointsLook to your left, look to your right. Your next mentor might be next to you! Lateral mentoring comes naturally to us and arises organically. You are probably engaged in lateral mentoring and don’t even know it! When you think of mentoring, what do you envision? Most people think of mentoring as a hierarchical […]
