Changing Lanes Blog: Personal resources

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…
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Sep
01

My achy breaky body

Dem bones, dem bones.

I loved Jane’s blog last week—after all, I’m only three years behind her.  And right now I’m particularly feeling the horrible reality that my “body refuses to fall in line.” It’s no secret that I’m on a personal journey, one in which I’m trying to achieve…
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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…
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Aug
11

Did curiosity really kill the cat?

Getting to the “who, what, why, when, where and how” of life.

When I first retired, I had the idea that periodically I would select a topic and research it until I knew all I cared to know about it I had my own list, much like Jane’s “bucket list.” Here’s one example on my roster: the…
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Aug
04

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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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…
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Jul
07

Bricks and mortar: Going beyond Facebook

Get Smart. Get Real.

When I was working in the telecommunications industry, my area of expertise was technology. My career was not unlike others in tech project/product management: a mix of hits and misses. The development of an interactive television product that never saw the light of day was…
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Jun
30

Eating everything on your plate

Little kids in China are starving.

I was brought up the way many of you probably were—I was trained to eat everything on my plate. No ifs, ands, or buts. My mother and I shared a laugh a couple years ago regarding my all too headstrong introduction to “waste not, want…
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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…
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Jun
02

Dealing with Weighty Issues

You don't sweat much for a fat girl.

My weight goes up, it goes down, but then it’s up again. No bell curve, no modest sine wave, just a steady trend up a few pounds every year or so. Now, at 57, I find it harder and harder to stay at a desirable…
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