A Season of Illumination

Up until this season,
men were asking:

Am I having
a successful career?

At mid-life,
the wisest begin to ask
a much larger, more important question:

Am I living
a successful life?

Like most men, you are busy ... maybe so busy that you barely have time to read this!

Now, busyness has its advantages. It can bring the accolades you live for and opens
all the right career doors. Maybe you’re quite successful in the eyes of your colleagues.
It feels good. Yet, the high it produces begins to wane as middle age approaches. You
begin to wonder whether, well ... whether success alone makes for a successful life.

Some say that those who ask that question are experiencing a mid-life crisis. It may feel
like a crisis but, in reality, it’s a season of illumination. Up until this season, men were
asking: Am I having a successful career? At mid-life, the wisest among us begin to
ask a much larger, more important question: Am I living a successful life?

Isolation and Trivialization

As you approach mid-life, there may be a gnawing sense of isolation. No one really
knows you. That’s perfectly understandable. After all, why would you allow anyone to
really know you? In your world of clients, colleagues and acquaintances, information is power and to divulge personal information might well be leveraged against you.

You respond by diving ever more deeply into your work, believing that success, in adequate doses, will render feelings of isolation a thing of the past. However, one night you awake and begin to take inventory of your life, wondering whether the product or service you have marketed so successfully, and the money you have made, is enough. You wonder whether or not you have spent your life on something legitimate but trivial.
You don’t want to sell things or produce things nearly much as they want to change
things. You want your life to count for something significant. By significant you mean that you want your world to be better off because of you.

What Men Want

You, along with countless others have intuitively awakened to two realities as mid-life approaches:

You need more than acquaintances and clients. You need friends, maybe even a mentor.
You need more than a job. You need a calling which will enable you to better your world.

In short, you seek more than successful career. You seek a significant life.

That’s where I come in ... [for more click on about]


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