The Art of Calm: The Connection Solution
You’ve seen it on TV a hundred times.
The great detective (or doctor or scientist or whatever) has been working the case night and day, with no success.
You’ve seen it on TV a hundred times.
The great detective (or doctor or scientist or whatever) has been working the case night and day, with no success.
The most common emotion people feel about getting old is surprise. I remember reading this in my thirties and finding it hilarious. Surprise? About the single most predictable thing in life? Oh, those old folks, I thought. Those doddering darlings! How silly they are!
I’m pretty sure that was last week. Except now I’m about to turn sixty.
WHAT????
You have to understand: Turning sixty only happens to other people. It has literally never happened to me. It is not something I do. Every day, I have to wrap my boggled mind around the shocking, totally unforeseeable reality of my sixtyness.
In my defense—in defense [...]
I’ve never really had a job. I’ve worked my whole life. Hard. Year in, year out, night and day. But a job? Nah. Couldn’t do it.
Like you, I was raised to believe a job was synonymous with survival. But I couldn’t get one. In my “build-your-empire” years, I was too crippled by autoimmune diseases, too busy raising children, to follow conventional wisdom.
Lucky me.
Because I couldn’t do a job, I had to open up my imagination. Instead of “How can I get a job?” I learned early to ask, “How can I add value to the world, to other people’s [...]