“Well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive,” according to Atul Gawande.  “Everything changes, all the time,” according to Buddhist wisdom. This double helix demonstrates better aging as a relationship between our practical everyday spirituality  and actively nurturing integrated elements of our well-being in the process of growing older wisely and well. This[…]

Earlier this week I realized I’ve been in a funk for a while. I’ve been so busy with the busyness of my retirement vocation that I lost sight of my reason(s) for being busy—which is to both nurture my own well-being through my own practice of conscious aging, and to share my experience of doing[…]

I recently met with a professional man who had just learned he was soon to be terminated in an amalgamation—much to his surprise, and long before he was ready to retire. With a couple of years to retirement he had been doing some forward thinking, but not quite planning. Sound, or feel, familiar? He was[…]

I recently encouraged people to “DO more of what nurtures you in 2019.” I believe this is always good advice, and not simply as a new year’s resolution: Because that is what I have been increasingly doing for some time on my advancing life journey; with increasing maturing success and satisfaction. But when I began[…]

Q1: What does NEW FUTURES actually offer me? A: An opportunity to engage the process that can improve your experience of the days and weeks of the rest of your life. Our practice offers a NEW FUTURE to people who know, at some level, that it’s time for something more, different, and better for the[…]

This is not a trick question. Moreover, it is one that becomes increasingly important as we approach midlife or retirement, and at every other major life transition. Around age 45-ish, many people begin to sense a certain anxiety or dissatisfaction, an angst, a slump, insecurity. Feelings that often compound with retirement, even though they may[…]

Over the past few weeks I realized my life had changed without my recognizing it. Also, in a new way, and at a new depth, that my continuing Quest for Contentment requires me to once again let go of, and move on from, what once satisfied me and offered contentment, but no longer does. Relatedly,[…]

 I am at another crossroads. Perhaps you can relate. I have just celebrated another birthday—my 75th I have just returned from vacation—before I was ready Fall has arrived—and I haven’t completed summer I am preparing for a new workshop series with new ideas I am feeling a call to take a different path from the[…]

Midlife and retirement are two natural but different crossroads, typically, but not always, related. While I basically knew this prior to the 16-month research I did for the writing of my forthcoming book Quest for Contentment, I discovered new elements of it, and at greater depth. It was affirmed, again, for example, that the quality[…]

Let’s Take a Minute to talk about retirement as a major life change. One that need not be as challenging as it so often is. The transition to retirement is one of the major stressors of life. Thus, it is a major contributor to rising world-wide rates of anxiety and depression. Mostly because few prepare[…]