Midlife Mastery Journal

The holidays can be particularly challenging for men and women at midlife. There are attitudes that you can adopt that transform your holiday season into something very special.

I’ve been working on a program to help guide people who are recovering from a serious (perhaps painful) life experience and are having trouble getting back up on their feet. It gave me the opportunity once again to explore the grieving process. Keep in mind that almost all life transitions result in the grief process, [...]

Whether or not you’re ready for it, midlife also marks your shift from the sidelines to mid-field in the game of life. If you were very fortunate in your early years, you may have been spared from having to deal with what I’m choosing to call the “ten terrible transitions.”

Whether you’re 15 or 50, you’ve got some growing to do. Yet most people who are reading these words are unaware that there exists a huge obstacle to your growth that you’re just taking for granted. In fact, if you’re like most people, you probably think that this major obstacle to growth belongs there: it seems like that’s the way things are supposed to be.

The second hallmark of maturity is a life that is committed to the service of others. Directing our midlife transition from the dissatisfaction of a life lived for ourselves to a level of spiritual and ethical maturity and personal fulfillment just by daily prayer and meditation seems way too simple and easy a solution.