“Hiding or lying about your age is giving in to ageism. Don't do it! Be proud of who you are, what you know and what you've accomplished.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“In order to create your future, you have to reconcile your past.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“Chase career relationships, not job postings.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“Getting fired is not shameful. It just means you need to find a better fit.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“Elizabeth hadn't had a pet before and she wasn't sure she had one now. Six-Thirty wasn't human, but he seemed to possess a humanity that far surpassed what she'd found in most people.”
Source: Lessons in Chemistry
“You hear a lot about "digital natives." Well, baby boomers are the "digital founders.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“For many of us, the job-hunt offers a chance to make some fundamental changes in our whole life. It marks
a turning point in how we live our life.
It gives us a chance to ponder and reflect, to extend our mental horizons, to go deeper into the subsoil
of our soul.
It gives us a chance to wrestle with the question, “Why am I here on Earth?” We don’t want to feel that
we are just another grain of sand lying on the beach called humanity, unnumbered and lost in the billions
of other human beings.
We want to do more than plod through life, going to work, coming home from work. We want to find
that special joy, “that no one can take from us,” which comes from having a sense of Mission in our life.
We want to feel we were put here on Earth for some special purpose, to do some unique work that only
we can accomplish.
We want to know what our Mission is.”
Source: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
“Practice empathy rather than sympathy.”
“This is a pretty deep hole for putting away all the ugly things in the world. For a long time it was empty, but it started filling up really fast the last couple of years.”
Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings
“Time is Money-But when just a fraction of that 'Time' is spent with our loved ones, the happiness is just 'PRICELESS' and an investment for Life”