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Your Mental Health
Before we headed off on vacation we were thinking about the role our mental health plays in our career and life planning. If we learned anything in the past year it was that we needed to check in with ourselves to see how we were mentally and then zoom in on those things that […]
Keep New Habits
This week, in the heat of summer, we’re talking about new habits formed during (you know what) and if any of them are worth saving. Then John Tarnoff calls for a LinkedIn Mission Statement. And when they’re good we throw in a few events worth attending and tools to drive change. Please let us know what […]
Working Too Much
This week we’re talking about how so many of us are returning to a radically different workplace. Read how some companies are reinventing their requirements for where and how their teams work together. And then we’re asking the question, “Wasn’t all this tech supposed to help us work less, not more?” Speaking of change and reinvention, […]
Are You Paying Attention?
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity We refer to David Allen’s books and methods in our workshops and quote him extensively in our book. You might say he’s a fountain of […]
Your TikTok Resume
“Users can post a TikTok video resume to the site rather than a traditional resume. The idea is for users to give an elevator pitch or work experience summary via the video in a unique way.” If you’ve been suffering through Zoom job interviews in the past year and a half, what’s next might just […]
Self-Belief is a Superpower
“Lockdowns may have eroded people’s swagger, but research suggests there are ways to remedy the situation.” In a recent Guardian story “Why self-belief is a superpower that can be harnessed,” Ian Robertson writes that the words we say to ourselves shape our attention, which controls our emotions, and the result is confidence – or lack […]
Retirement at 100
What’s Good For You is Good for Your FriendsYou probably subscribed to our newsletter because you have a curiosity about work and life transitions. You may have attended one of our events, or read our book, or were referred by a friend. How about sharing the love? Consider forwarding this email to your friends or […]
Leading with Empathy and Allyship
“My executive coach told me once if I ever need a project where I could use a whole bunch of badass women in tech, she knows them because there are so many women who are laid off after the age of 50.”- Melinda Briana Epler, Founder and CEO of Change Catalyst, Host Empathy and Allyship PodcastChange […]
A Chance to Start Over
“…life’s ordinary patterns have paused for millions of people. In these last weeks and months before something resembling normality returns, we might ask ourselves, “What do I want ‘normal’ to look like?” Then, we can start preparing for a new and better normal than what we took for granted until a year ago.”Could this be a […]
What’s Wrong With the Way We Work?
“Once we may have left our work behind, today we take it with us…. Our working life is woven, warp across weft, into the texture of our domestic existence.”Richard Donkin, Author of “Blood, Sweat, and Tears”In the New Yorker Jill Lepore reports on the history of work in America and how we find ourselves shifting […]
The Anatomy of a Transition
“The transitions of middle age have a different flavor and cadence than those in our youth. We know ourselves better. We are more selective.” Our colleagues at the Modern Elder Academy have just published “The Anatomy of a Transition.” Authors Jeff Hamaoui and Kari Henley have put into words their experiences and findings from the […]
Women Reentering the Workforce
“I don’t know what I expected, but the inability to call out my resume gap (on LinkedIn) was immediately apparent. I had typed in “mom” into the blank space of the job title category, and I was surprised and disappointed to find that homemaker was the only option that popped up, which, of course, is […]
Post-Traumatic Growth
“We can come to appreciate life in new ways, build new relationships and connections, develop new hobbies and learning opportunities, identify strengths, and perhaps even find some spiritual change.” Dr. Michael Wilkes explains that people can experience post-traumatic growth from such experiences. Wilkes, a regular contributor to KCRW, is Professor of Medicine at the University of […]
A New You Now
“You can behave ‘as if’ you are the person you want to be. Pretty soon, you might find that it is you.” – Richard Wiseman, “The As If Principle” Psychology professor at the University of HertfordshireIn the New York Times, author Olga Khazan, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of “Weird: The Power of […]
Writing For Discovery
“Keeping a diary is about paying attention to my life and then paying attention to what I pay attention to.” – Austin Kleon Author Mike Monteiro told us “Write about what you do.” His intention was to encourage writing as a way of exploring what you are doing more closely and to tell the world what you’re doing. If you can’t […]
Designing Your 100-Year Life
“The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing.” – Herminia IbarraLast week we participated in a very engaging and insightful conversation with Herminia Ibarra, an organizational behavior professor at London Business School and author of […]
Work: A Deep History
“For the first 290,000 years of our 300,000-year history, we didn’t work nearly as hard as we do now.” – James SuzmanHave you heard about the Next Big Idea Club? They believe you start with the people behind the ideas : writers, both established and up-and-coming, who engage, inspire, and motivate readers to make changes […]
Amazing Community Partners with VOICE, a UK National Innovation Centre for Aging (NICA) Organization
Next For Me is a supporter of the work of The Amazing Community, an organization that is expanding the work horizon for women 45+. We congratulate them on this significant partnership with VOICE, an acronym for “Valuing Our Intellectual Capital and Experience”– that will allow each community to participate in tech skills building opportunities, quality […]
Learning and Development
According to the 2021 LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report, learning has taken center stage and is essential to help organizations develop the skills necessary to thrive and innovate in the new world of work.When they asked Learning and Development pros globally about their most important areas of focus in 2021, upskilling and reskilling topped the list.What […]
Dear Future Self
Have you heard about the idea of writing a letter to your future self? It’s a chance to visualize where you might end up, and where you were when you wrote it. FutureMe is a free service to send your note. Some call it “backcasting”.If you were to write to yourself in 1, 3, 5 […]
Virtual Guilt
Kelly Forrister is the Director of Learning at McGhee and Associates. She oversees the curriculum strategy and program development for the McGhee productivity model. As well as Zoom Fatigue, which you’ve probably been hearing about, she writes on LinkedIn about something that isn’t being addressed with more people working from home. She calls it “Virtual Guilt.” “If […]
Best Possible Outcomes
There are a number of ways to visualize scenarios involving your future. You might be more comfortable writing or drawing, or heck, even singing to bring something to life in your mind and imagination. Whatever your preferred method, you can be certain that you’ll be looking at it differently after you do. As Ben Shneiderman, founding […]
Measuring Financial Health
You must have some notion of where you want to be with your finances. Facebook published a study that showed that 61% of consumers expressed concern with their ability to weather a large, unexpected expense, and 59% expressed concern with their ability to provide for themselves and their family“With the outbreak of COVID-19, consumers are […]
Rapid Change Is Disrupting How We Approach Work and Purpose
This article was first published on The Super Age blogThe world is moving fast. The fire hose of information and around the clock news has created anxiety in society. Those best able to handle the onslaught possess what author Thomas Friedman describes as “dynamic stability”. He writes, “There is only one way to thrive now, and […]
Habit Forming
Getting into a groove with a new habit can move you forward. There is a lot of research that even minor adjustments to your way of doing things can make a big difference. Apply this thinking to a new adventure in your life and now you’re doing more than thinking about doing. “In order to design […]
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