How Might You Celebrate Your Next Birthday Differently?

I love this recent Huffington Post article about Megan Vered who wrote to a wide circle of friends that she’d

Chip Conley

April 25, 2025

How Might You Celebrate Your Next Birthday Differently?

Two Conservatives Offer Some New York Times Wisdom

But, I found Ross Douthat’s column from this past weekend, An Age of Extinction is Coming, and David Brooks’ What’s

Chip Conley

April 24, 2025

Two Conservatives Offer Some New York Times Wisdom

Why You Flourish in Your 50s

There’s social science evidence showing that younger people consistently and markedly overestimate how satisfied they will be in five years,

Chip Conley

April 23, 2025

Why You Flourish in Your 50s

How Are You Training to Become a Modern Elder?

Steven replied, “If we’re lucky, we’ll all get older, but only a few of us will become a true elder.”

Chip Conley

April 22, 2025

How Are You Training to Become a Modern Elder?

A Window into Your Wisdom

The eyes may be the window to one’s soul, but the gut is the window to one’s wisdom. The gut is

Chip Conley

April 21, 2025

A Window into Your Wisdom

Are You Having a Near-Life Experience?

I see them everywhere: people standing in elevators, at bus stops, in line at grocery stores—their eyes fixated on their

Karen Salmansohn

April 20, 2025

Are You Having a Near-Life Experience?

What Does It Mean to Truly Listen? It Means Listening With Our Eyes.

There’s an old story of a child who comes home and says, “mom, mom mom…” (for those of us with

Daniel Gropper

April 19, 2025

What Does It Mean to Truly Listen? It Means Listening With Our Eyes.

Before Death, Depth

We don’t need to live longer. We need to live deeper.And that doesn’t require a plane ticket or a new

Chip Conley

April 18, 2025

Before Death, Depth

3 Questions to Ask at Each of the 3 Stages of Transition

As we write about in our Anatomy of a Transition free ebook, most personal or professional transitions can be mapped

Chip Conley

April 17, 2025

3 Questions to Ask at Each of the 3 Stages of Transition

Relish and Release

Rather than feeling befuddled or stuck, maybe it’s time to relish and release. Both of these words come from the

Chip Conley

April 16, 2025

Relish and Release

“I Want to Complicate My Life”

And, yet, our modern tendency is NOT to simplify, but to complicate. When we’re younger, we might have thought that

Chip Conley

April 15, 2025

“I Want to Complicate My Life”

When Your Body Slows Down, Your Soul Finally Speaks

Thanks to MEA alum Anne Auburn shared this wise 22-minute video about the whispering soul. This Buddhist insight about how

Chip Conley

April 14, 2025

When Your Body Slows Down, Your Soul Finally Speaks