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How do you navigate the inevitable uncertainties and adversities that come with making a difference in your life’s next chapter with greater clarity, confidence, and peace of mind?

The best way to find my way is to help others find theirs.

Of course, everyone’s “what’s next” is unique.

Because ea...

In the second half of life, we may feel uncertain and vulnerable.

You have an intuition that you can be and do more and better, but you need to figure out how to develop and step into that potential.

What to do?

It begins with trusting yourself enough to take small bets on yourself.

Be open ...

How do you get clear about and closer to what you want in your life's next chapter?

Force multipliers and leverage.

Embracing your unique experience and perspective informs idiosyncratic insights and skills that provide leverage to ratchet yourself forward into possibility.

Force multipliers are ...

What’s the first step toward a second half of life filled with more joy, purpose, and peace of mind?

Receptivity.

There’s a moment when we realize there’s more living behind us than in front. It can be depressing and even triggering.

But the second half of life is also an awakening that you and I...

What’s the most effective way to get closer to what you want in the second half of life?

Restraint.

The first half of life rewards you for chasing more.

More money. More status. More stuff. More, more, more…

But has this relentless pursuit of happiness actually made you happy?

The research says...

The second half of life can be a time of high anxiety due to uncertainty and fear about what the future holds.

And...

It can be a time of reflection, introspection, and a renewed sense of purpose.

But how do you reconcile these competing dynamics and create asymmetry to the upside of a second hal...

The game of life is played in two halves. 

The first half of life is spent in a relentless and undisciplined pursuit of more.

More money. More status. More stuff. More, more, more…

Whether due to a crisis or an epiphany, some of us wake up to the false promise of the “pursuit of happiness” and re...

Author’s note: When referring to terms as philosophies, they are capitalized. When referring to modern-day common usage, they are not.

Epicureanism and Stoicism are enduring ancient Greek philosophies and remain relevant. 

Why?

Like other philosophies of the time, Stoics and Epicureans are concer...

What are you certain about?

Are you absolutely sure about that?

I mean, really, really, absolutely certain.

It’s said that in this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

But even those absolutes appear to be challenged these days.

So, if there is nothing, or almost not...

Ready to live without limits in the second half of life?

There’s a moment when we realize there’s more living behind us than in front.

It can be depressing and even triggering.

But the second half of life is also an awakening that you and I haven’t yet even come close to delivering on our promise...

Success is not the measure of your ability.

Neither is failure.

In my work as an encore life coach, I look past success AND failure.

Here’s why.

We conflate success with our ability to make good decisions.

We confuse failure with our inability to make good decisions.

But here’s the thing.

I c...

The journey to make a difference in the second half of life is fraught with contradictions.

The biggest one that I witness (and experience) is navigating grandiosity and insignificance.

Your life’s calling should be big, right?

It can certainly feel that way.

After all, we’re programmed to chase...