I’ve been thinking a lot about the Pilgrims lately, and not because as I write this it’s a few days after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving represents abundance, yet my thoughts concerning these first New England immigrants have been more about scarcity and how they dealt with it. Coming to the New World was always a risky venture [...]
It’s pretty clear to most baby boomers that they will be creating, either by choice or circumstances, a very different kind of retirement from their parents, for whom it simply meant, stop working. Retirement was first quantified in 1935, when the Social Security Administration gave it the number, 65. At the time, the average lifespan [...]
Some of you may remember Jack LaLanne, whose exercise show on daytime TV was helping people stay fit long before anyone had ever heard of Richard Simmons. (he’s still at it, at the age of 90). For many years, he has been in the habit of celebrating his birthday by doing some amazing physical feat, [...]
Almost everyone knows about a book that has become a classic in the field of career-related literature: What Color is your Parachute? by Richard Bolles. Far fewer people are aware of another of his books, The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them. The message of Parachute was timely, but in [...]
When I was considering whether to pursue a Master’s in Counseling, I went to talk to a highly respected career professional about it. When I lamented that it would take me until I was 45 to complete the program, he said to me, ”You need to think in terms of a 200-year plan.“ At the [...]
