Change

My mom used to take pride in saying I was a late bloomer, but—being the obsessive achiever—I wondered why I couldn’t be an early bloomer.

So, what are we to do now that we’re living longer? Well, for many, one solution is to work longer. Fifty years old might be midlife, but now it’s mid-career, as more and more people are working into their 70s and 80s.

I’ve been fretting about how someone in my marketing role could possibly find anything in “forest bathing” that is relatable to my work.

"A what?" "A Cultural Architect. I help remote-first companies define their values (and if they are actually alive and well), behaviors, rituals, shared language, stories to create a desired working ecosystem (without an office) aligned with company strategy."

One of Chip's favorite ideas is liminal space, between two states, betwixt and between worlds. It's the time when the old ways no longer serve, but the new spaces have yet to appear.

I’m co-leading a retreat and one of the participants strolls up to me and says, “Oh, Denise, yes, you’re a psychologist.”

One of the core MEA tenets I hold so dearly is developing a growth mindset. This is in comparison to having a fixed mindset. Sounds obvious right? Not so easy. At the most fundamental level, a fixed mindset comes down to how often we say “no” vs. “yes” in life.

After I’d sold my boutique hotel company Joie de Vivre, a wise older man said to me, “Create space and see what emerges.” While sage advice, embracing the void has always been scary for me. Silence and an empty calendar used to freak me out!

I’m 49 years old and my life pretty much sucks. Or at least it should, according to a study in the National Bureau of Economic Research (Blanchflower and Oswald, 2020) that found that our well-being and happiness generally follows a U-shaped trajectory over the course of our lives.

Have you ever felt like a P.I.P. -- A Previously Important Person? It’s a common condition around old-school country clubs where people reminisce about their past glories.