Everyone wants long term success. But it is elusive for most. Long term success is dependent on knowing where you are now and where you are headed. Then closing the gap. Frequently. Continuously. Whether it’s your business, your career or your life at home., it’s easy to get off track, lose touch or get buried […]
Your Visionary is Hungry: When was the last time you fed her?
I’ve talked before about presence, what it is and why it’s important to develop, (see “Unwrapping Your Presence”). The first steps in developing this presence are asking the right questions, then opening yourself up to listening to the answers from the visionary voice inside you. These answers (or more and better questions) might come from within, […]
Is Retirement Always a Good Thing?
For many people, retirement is something to strive towards. Having the freedom to do what you’d like without reporting to a boss half your age or working a 9 to 5. While this all sounds great, is retirement really all it’s cracked up to be? We expect retirement to bring various freedoms, like the financial […]
VIA Talk: Getting Paid What You Are Worth
Get ready for a cognitive jolt to your assumptions, opening the way to envisioning new alternative futures in the Aging Space for your organization, your community and for yourself as a more confident and highly valued CSA. You will have the opportunity to examine the hottest topic on the minds of leading CSAs and newbies […]
Your Next Chapter a Guest Post by Jan Wieder
Your Next Chapter Life is supposed to be full of milestones. Things like graduation, getting married, buying a house, a new job or the birth of a child. Every self-help book that I have read recently, asks the question- what is your next move? The audiobooks that I listen to are challenging me to step […]
Have you DESIGNED your BOOMER Future?
In 2017 surveys showed a large majority of Boomers planning to continue working past retirement age, some by necessity and some by design. But now we can see signs of economic recovery with over 50 percent of Boomers born in 1946 saying they are now fully retired. Does this mean that Boomers are headed for […]
The Greatness Challenge: Excerpt
In this manifesto, I beseech you to belly up to the realization that we can no longer afford to rest on our laurels. The world is shifting to a different playing field, one New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says is “flattened by instant connectivity.” If we don’t wake up in time to retool for […]
3 Ways Technology Will Help You THRIVE
3 Ways Technology Will Help You THRIVE by Downing Van Buren, Learn How With technology advancing at such a breakneck pace it’s easy to feel outdated, out of the loop, or left behind. It seems every day phones and computers get faster and more complicated. Maybe you’ve felt it’s just not worth trying to learn […]
Are You Riding A Dead Horse Or Are You On The Trail To Greatness?
If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito. -Anita Roddick We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. -Woodrow Wilson Whether you are extraordinary at something, or everything, I bet you strive to be the […]
A Visionary’s Journey to GeroFuturing
What’s a GeroFuturist? It is a unique word, and it’s because my role is unique. It really started way back in my early, early career where I became a futurist by chance. I didn’t expect it. I ended up in financial services after having been an educator and a serial entrepreneur, as many of you […]
