Starting or Reinventing a Business after 50
March 30, 2012
On Monday, I talked more about the rising rate of entrepreneurs among people over 50. Odds are, you are one of the many 45- to 70-year-olds who are thinking about starting a business, or perhaps you are already running your own company. Even those already in business frequently reassess how their business is doing, and [...] Read more...
Ageless
March 19, 2012
We’re all aware that each generation tends to live longer than the ones before, and we might have noticed also that each generation looks and acts younger at a particular age than previous generations at that same age. Yet our mindset about what it means to be 30, 40, 50, 60, and beyond tends to [...] Read more...
Rescuing Gaia
March 16, 2012
For years, at World Future Society meetings and elsewhere, NASA scientists and other climate experts have been urging professional futurists to heed the call to action: Our climate is changing at an unnatural, accelerated pace that if unchecked will have disastrous consequences. They woke us up to how bad things already were and how bad [...] Read more...
Communities of the Future
March 13, 2012
In Will Doig’s article “How to Solve the Boomer Retirement Crisis,” he defines this “crisis” as an unprecedented number of retirees moving away from cities, making “caring for aging boomers vastly more complicated.” The rest of the article then focuses on how cities can be made more attractive to retirees. I agree with many of [...] Read more...
The Future Is in Her Hands
March 9, 2012
On Monday, I talked about two physics concepts that apply to our lives, our work, and our world: resonance and dissipative structures. Resonance teaches us that with the right timing, those of us of like mind, on the same wavelength, will have a magnified effect on the world when we come together—a much greater effect [...] Read more...
You Don’t Need Psychic Powers
February 24, 2012
In Monday’s blog post, I talked about why it’s a mistake to wait for the economy to recover before we transform our lives, work, and world. The future belongs to those who are starting those transformations now, who are shaping the world and creating their own place in it. If you can’t afford to make [...] Read more...
Managing Big Shifts
January 27, 2012
Time has come today. Young hearts can go their way. Can’t put it off another day. I don’t care what others say. They say we don’t listen anyway. Time has come today. Hey. Time. Now the time has come. Time. There are things to realize. Time. Time has come today. Time. Time has come today. [...] Read more...
Being, Knowing, Doing
January 16, 2012
We all know that to accomplish anything, at some point, we have to act. In fact, in western culture, this is so internalized, that people often spend their days racing from one thing to another, always doing, doing, doing. As we age, many of us feel even more pressure to beat the clock. In fact, [...] Read more...
Presence and Invisibility
January 13, 2012
The phenomenon of growing increasingly invisible as we age, and using that invisibility to empower us and others to be change agents, is related deeply with the visionary attribute I discussed in November—presence. (See “Unwrapping Your Presence” and “Stop, Look, and Listen”). The invisible power to fly under the radar and quietly lead change, which [...] Read more...
The Invisible Woman
January 11, 2012
Women tend to have the blessing and the curse of being invisible, especially as we approach 50 and beyond. The negative side of being invisible is clear to most of us. The world no longer seems to notice or care about us or what we have to say—if they ever did in the first place. [...] Read more...
