How does it feel? How does it feel? To be on your own with no direction home. Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?
Changing Lanes Blog: Jane's Musings
Oct
06
How to Achieve Renewal without Dumping Your Career
Crime doesn't pay--enough
Sometimes you can take a metaphor too far. When Susan and I write or talk about Changing Lanes, our road trip imagery might give the impression that we are trying to get all you fellow boomers to dump your current careers. You might conclude that…READ MORE »
Sep
22
The Importance of Ritual when Changing Lanes
My Neighborhood Bar
We all have a special place where we go to feel good. It’s that favorite place we go to escape the daily grind, meet a friend, or mark a special occasion. In this place we can be ourselves and take a break in both space…READ MORE »
Sep
08
Freedom to Choose
Political Activism, Part Deux
Anyone who read my first blog on political activism posted on February 11 knows where I stand politically. I wrote about how this year’s hotly contested campaign reawakened an innate part of my psyche that wants to make a difference in people’s lives. And since…READ MORE »
Aug
25
Turning 60
How did this happen? I can’t be 60! Sixty is the venerable, senior generation – not the young, hip, break-the-rules crowd I grew up with. We were taught to show respect to Sixty, all the while rolling our eyes whenever one of these well-meaning, hopeless…READ MORE »
Aug
18
Putting it together in retirement
Being a dilettante can be a good thing
“Focus, focus, focus.” This seemed to be the mantra for getting ahead in the decades I was developing my career. As a management consultant, I had to pick an industry (banking) and a functional area (technology) to be credible as an advisor worthy of the…READ MORE »
Jul
28
The Pain and Discomfort of Shingles
Itchy Witchy Woman
Is your frenetic lifestyle that was the price of your successful career preventing you from succeeding on your journey of self-discovery? While conducting our research for Changing Lanes, Susan and I learned that most people overlook the first essential step in the process—the need to…READ MORE »
Jul
21
What do I want to be when I grow up?
Do as I say-- not as I do (or did)
Why is it that our parenting years tend to overlap with the period of our most intense career development? Seems like some sort of cosmic joke on humanity that we have the hearts and minds of our littlest and most vulnerable members in our hands…READ MORE »
Jul
13
My new business card
Playing the back nine.
When our book first came out, I got an email from an old friend who was a stellar entertainment lawyer. He was grateful that Changing Lanes was being published just as he was turning 65 and setting out on his own path to renewal. While…READ MORE »
Jun
23
Our Family Roots Dig
Finding Rivka
When Susan and I are asked what Changing Lanes is about, we often reply that it’s about realigning who you are with what you do. The many change artists we interviewed demonstrated that living a more authentic life allowed them to tap into wellsprings of…READ MORE »
Jun
08
What’s on Your Bucket List?
Life is a Buffet
Years ago, I started keeping a file in my desk where I saved clippings and notes of ideas for things I might do someday. All kinds of things. Some were just for fun, like taking fencing lessons at the local “Y”, or going to the…READ MORE »
