Overwhelm and Burnout This article was originally published on the CareerWise website – “Your source for career development news and views.” We are time-crunched and over-scheduled, with demands from our work and personal lives that can make us feel overwhelmed. Who hasn’t looked at their to-do list recently and thought, “How am I ever going to get […]
Never Too Old to Get Rich by Kerry Hannon [Book Review]
Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life by Kerry Hannon Never Too Old to Get Rich by Kerry Hannon is a guidebook for people in the second half of life who want to start a business. The book is dense with information, presented as a series of case […]
How to Mitigate Risk in the 2nd Half of Life
How to Mitigate Risk? Do you know how to mitigate risk in your life and career? This is the 3rd post in a series on dealing with risk in the 2nd half of life. If you have not had a chance to read the other posts, you can find them here. Perceived and Real Risks […]
What will be Your Focus Word for the New Year?
Focus Word for the New Year I want to introduce you to a new concept, at least it is new to me. It is about picking a focus word that will be a guiding light throughout the next year. For the last few years, I have taken the last 2 weeks of the year to […]
How Crowdsourcing Helped Me Become a Published Author [Guest Post]
How Crowdsourcing Helped Me Become a Published Author I never thought I would write a book, even though I have published books for well over a hundred authors in recent decades. This article originally appeared on RussEanes.com. I have always loved writing and decided when I left my job as Publisher and Executive Director of MennoMedia in […]
The Best Baby Boomer Career Online Communities
Baby Boomer Online Communities Online communities have exploded since the introduction of Facebook more than a dozen years ago. There are all kinds of online communities – except career-oriented sites for baby boomer careers. When I started CareerPivot.com in 2012, the world was just beginning to understand that baby boomers were not going to ride […]
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition is Now Available
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition is Now Available Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition is finally available in both paperback and Kindle ebook formats. The paperback will be available through Amazon’s Kindle Digital Publishings (KDP) Expanded Distribution. What KDP’s Help page says is as follows: Booksellers and libraries purchase paperbacks from large distributors. If you enroll […]
Evolution of Repurpose Your Career Book and Launch – Part III
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition Creating the 3rd edition of the book has been a transformative experience. Why you may ask? The world has changed significantly in the last couple of years. The economy has greatly improved for many but not for all. Those of us in the 2nd half of life have not always […]
Evolution of Repurpose Your Career Book and Launch – Part II
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition The first book was published and a lot of lessons were learned. If you have not read the first post in this series I suggest you do that now. The plan was to update the book every 2-3 years but that did not happen. I now thought I was a […]
