Do I Still Want to Be a Senior Leader in Five Years?
There is a question that can arrive at an inconvenient point in a successful career. It often appears when you’re still performing well, still trusted by colleagues and still capable of handling the demands of a senior role. The question is not whether you can...
Why “I’ll Deal With It Next Year” Keeps Not Working
There is always a reason to leave the question alone for longer. Work is busy, the family needs attention or this does not feel like the right moment for change. You decide that a quieter month or another year will create the space you need. “I’ll Deal...
The Life You Were Handed Has Run Out. What Happens Next?
For most of adult life, the next step was rarely difficult to identify. Work needed attention, a home needed paying for and children needed raising. Even when the years were demanding, they gave you a clear place within them. You knew what was expected and became...
Why Achieving Everything You Wanted Does Not Always Feel the Way You Expected
You worked hard, made sensible decisions and kept moving forward. You built the career, earned the respect, provided for your family and created a level of security that may once have seemed a long way off. By most reasonable measures, you have done well. You expected...
Why Time Away Can Make You Question the Life You’re Coming Back To
You spend months looking forward to getting away. You imagine that a change of scenery, slower mornings and a break from the usual responsibilities will leave you rested and ready to return. Then the holiday ends, and instead of feeling renewed, you find yourself...
How to Find Purpose After 50 When the Life That Drove You Has Changed
For much of your adult life, purpose may not have been something you needed to think about. There was simply too much that needed doing. A career to establish, a mortgage to pay, children to raise, relationships to maintain and a future to make secure meant the next...
Retirement and Loss of Identity: How Do You Prepare for Who You’ll Be After Work?
You may have spent years preparing financially for retirement. There are pensions to review, investments to consider, mortgages to clear and calculations designed to answer the question of whether you will have enough. By the time retirement becomes a realistic...
When Your Children Leave Home: Who Are You When They Don’t Need You in the Same Way?
For twenty years or more, being needed has been part of the rhythm of your life. There were school runs, football matches, lifts home, homework, arguments, holidays, university decisions and endless requests for money. Even as your children grew older and became more...