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What a trip. Two continents, three countries, four COVID-19 tests, nine flights, and 21 days. Plus one guy named Brian who isn’t quite the same person he was when he left on November 1st — in a good way. Travel is an activity that’s practically guaranteed to change your life for the better. In fact, …

It’s almost that time of year — the one U.S. holiday that openly speaks of emotions: Thanksgiving. However, as Brian once wrote, the trouble with Thanksgiving is that the primary feeling related to the holiday, gratitude, often gets lost in the turkey/stuffing/football sauce. This can be seen as a metaphor for how easy it is …

While Brian is busy exploring the Amazon in Peru, I’m taking over his usual spot and leading you on a different kind of adventure: a journey deep into the new science of consciousness. Fortunately, we don’t need a plane to transport us. We have the vehicle we need — midlife curiosity about who we are …

Greetings from Lima, Peru! This trip was supposed to happen last fall, but didn’t for obvious reasons. The first reschedule was for spring of this year, but was postponed again to allow the vaccination process to play out. Now, everyone in the group is vaccinated and tested. And in a few days we’ll be off …

We’re leading the charge into the unknown. Or, at minimum, the uncertain. That’s what Joseph Coughlin, author of The Longevity Economy, writes over at Forbes. And the subject is one that comes up around here at Further a lot — retirement. Nearly two-thirds of us who joined the workforce in the 1980s, and everyone since …

The other day I was walking the mile or so to the coffee shop I go to when I get tired of sitting in my office. Change of scenery does wonders, plus I get in some walking time to think and shift gears. A kid whizzed by me on an electric bike. I few seconds …

The headline above is the first line of 52-year-old Dave Grohl’s unconventional new memoir, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. Here’s the full first paragraph: Sometimes I forget that I’ve aged. My head and my heart seem to play this cruel trick on me, deceiving me with the false illusion of youth by greeting …

There’s an old saying: Weight loss happens in the kitchen, fitness happens in the gym. Two different goals, two different approaches. And yet we tend to conflate fitness with being thin. To be thin, we need to change our eating habits — often drastically — in order to lose weight and have that lithe body …

Greeting from Cabo San Lucas! I’m here speaking at a conference (and then celebrating my birthday). Convenient, right? No tequila-fueled craziness though. I just started working out again after a 2021 backslide (sigh), so I need to make time to move (and make sure I feel up to it). We talk a lot about the …

The urge to shift gears is strong at midlife. After the dissatisfaction of our 40s (often seemingly for no reason), we realize we were already in a transitional phase. The question is, will you keep going with it? Once we hit 50 we come out of the funk of our 40s, but we’re not the …

Those who are interested in personal growth are seeking transformation. Whether in the realm of health, wealth, or wisdom, we’re seeking to change in a meaningful way. Some turn to self-help books. Others to meditation. Simply making it to the age of 50 can be transformative. Other transformative events are more traumatic: A near-death experience, …

I’ll be 54 end of next month. I’m not sure I ever tried to imagine what age 54 would be like when I was younger, but I can tell you one thing … I certainly don’t feel old. And yet, we seem to be subject to some kind of weird social construct when we’re over …