Must Reads
Last night, when I was supposed to be doing my taxes, I found one of my favorite movies on Netflix - Something’s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.
In it, Diane Keaton is a Broadway playwright with a fabulous house in the Hamptons. She’s successful, middle-aged, and divorced. Jack Nicholson is dating her 30-year old daughter.
A classic Nancy Meyers set up - very 2013.
You probably think you know why a midlife coach like me loves this film: The gender politics, the satisfying second-half career, the midlife malaise?
Nope. It’s none of those things.
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For a while now, I've sensed something shifting. I mean obviously, the planet is shifting, careening even, but I mean internally, for me and us in this little community.
Midlife is often marked by a yearning for something undefined. Know what I mean? It sounds like "I just know there has to be more than this." Is this all there is?
The honest answer is maybe. It's up to you.
Two Things:
#1 - I talk with my staff and clients all the time about the second mountain, a concept I learned from author David Brooks' book by the same name. If you've watched my latest training, you've...
