Changing Lanes Blog: Quieting the Mind

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…
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Changing my relationship with food

Don’t sleepwalk while you eat

Six weeks, 38,500 calories, and 11 pounds.Six weeks is how long I’ve been on my new health regiment. During that time, I’ve created a calorie deficit of 38,500 calories—by either eating less or exercising more. As I reported in my last blog, I need a…
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Change, change, and more change

Be the turtle

I’m giving a talk today and have been struggling. How do I make the topic of Changing Lanes an interesting one to an audience of mostly 70 and 80 year old women? It wasn’t until I ran into Christie, an 87 year old friend and neighbor,…
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Turning a Love into a Profession

Hey good lookin', whatcha got cookin'?

I recently caught up with Jean Duane, a friend from my Denver book club. When we first met, we were both in the cable industry but our paths had never crossed—even though it’s certain we’d both attended the same industry conventions and events.But it is…
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The Not-for-Profit Lane

Lions and Tigers and Bears

In their second half, many boomers would like to figure out how to earn a living while serving the wider community. Willing to give up some of the financial benefits of their careers for the psychic benefits of working for the common good, they hope to…
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Searching for Meaning, Purpose, and all those other Blissed-out Phrases

Is That All There Is?

When Jane and I decided to write this book, we needed a guinea pig for our first interview. I immediately thought of my friend, Ruth. She, like many of us, had been both a beneficiary and a victim of her own business success. But in…
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