Some of you have heard about my struggles with yoga and the ease of my meditation practice.

Women and midlife is often a lot more complicated than engaging a therapist, buying a sports car, and popping out the other side as a new person. There are a myriad of complex issues for women, and often multiple events that seem to have a compounding effect. The whole thing can be quite dramatic and go on for years.

Ikigai. Joie de Vivre. Raison d'être. Why don’t Americans have concepts like these from the Japanese and the French? I liked the “joy of life” concept enough to name my boutique hotel company Joie de Vivre. And, both Ikigai and Raison d'être speak to why we jump out of bed each morning.

I remember thinking that changing jobs would make me happy. Then once I changed jobs, I thought changing relationships would do the trick. Then it was moving to a new city.

Write a book on wisdom, and the number one question you hear at book signings is “How do you define wisdom?” I tried to answer this on stage at the Commonwealth Club with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky a few years ago. You can see in this video that it took me more than three minutes to answer the question.

I can still taste the feeling when I departed MEA in early December: the sense of connection with my fellow compadres; the burgeoning sense of possibility; the openness to new frontiers. I departed in a mild state of euphoria. My boundaries were lowered and I was ready to step into a rejuvenated mental framework about life in “middlessence,” and all it could offer. The flavor was sweet.

In General Electric's 1990 annual report, CEO Jack Welch described a new organizational model, "Our dream…is a boundaryless company…where we knock down the walls that separate us from each other on the inside and from our key constituencies on the outside." Welch proposed a much less rigid, more fluid organizational chart that could nimbly make and execute decisions.

Let’s double click on Arthur Brooks’ recent column on “The Most Successful People are a Little Dissatisfied” since it has such applicability to the workshop that opens our Spring season.

“The Great Resignation:” The media love creating sensational labels in order to get more eyeballs on their stories. In any event, the statistics are compelling. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, in the USA, an average of 3.9 million people quit their jobs every month during 2021.

I’m ageist. There you go, I’ve said it. And though you may deny it, so too are you.