…pitching until his last Major League game just two weeks before his 59th birthday. Turning 59 myself (next week) and marveling at all the young talent in the World Series,

October 26, 2019

We learn in our teens. We earn in our twenties. We yearn in our thirties. We burn in our forties. We discern in our fifties. And, we adjourn in our

October 25, 2019

But, now that we were open, we were also empty. I had just “fired” our biggest client, aka, Vinny the pimp, along with his girls. What the hell was I

October 24, 2019

October 23, 2019

…if that’s true, my dad was barely ¾ of the way through his adult life (if you start counting at age 18, which is when real choice opens up in

October 22, 2019

In order to proudly embrace the word “elder,” it’s time we make a distinction between “elderly” and “elder.” Elderly is the last 5-10 years of our lives, when we may

October 21, 2019

Sure, we have all kinds of online resources from MOOC’s to MBA-lite’s, but the tyranny of the three-stage life – Learn-Earn-Burn (aka Retire) – is embedded in many Boomers’ and

October 20, 2019

…Joie de Vivre was in the “identity refreshment” business and Airbnb, where I repeated it years later, was in the “belong anywhere” business. This entirely changed the way both companies

October 19, 2019

Quite frankly, retire is a word that should be retired from the Modern Elder lexicon, and instead, I offer this two-word replacement: Reach Higher. This should be the new mantra

October 18, 2019

But, more than that, his three sentences on emotional modulation, spoken after the book came out, represent the wisest summary of maturity I’ve ever heard. I quote: “Between stimulus and

October 17, 2019

And in the process, we don’t give ourselves to anyone, including ourselves. To become a mentor who will make a difference in the lives of others, we must commit to

October 16, 2019

Before you start looking around for a partner to compliment your magic, what if you alone could embody two contrasting qualities with the perfect dose of each? What if you

October 15, 2019