I used to run to lose weight. To track how many calories I could spare before I felt guilty about what I ate. I used to run to de-stress and re-center from the weight of building both a career and a family at the same time. I used to run to get rid of something. Get rid of fat, pressure, responsibility. A necessary evil I convinced myself that I had to do. It was like that for as long as I could remember. But something changed today. My relationship with running just evolved. I felt different; it was noticeable, and the invisible force pushed me forward this morning. …
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This past year I willingly said goodbye to a part of my life that defined my very core. A career that took nearly half my life to cultivate. It was intense and stressful; it was creative and imaginative; strategic and calculated. It was layered. It challenged me, inspired me, stretched and pulled me in directions I never could have dreamed. It reinforced my values and tested my instincts. I was building a marketing firm from the ground up. I wasn’t its Founder, but I was there from its founding year, feeling the currents of success and failure just the same. I needed its Closure, yet I felt secure within…
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For the first time in my life, I don’t have a plan – a to do list of goals to accomplish and to strive toward. I’m just here. In the present. And it is the most uncomfortable I have felt in my entire life. When I was younger, I often heard about people going through a mid-life crisis. I don’t think that is at all what I’m experiencing. It’s more about a mid-life career crisis. Not so much a crisis – that’s a bit dramatic. It’s more like a mid-life I feel accomplished in what I’ve achieved in my career for the last 20 years, but I’m ready to close…