I heard a great quote today:
Make your mess, your message!
This is what I have tried to do with my own midlife crisis.
My mission is to help others understand just how normal a midlife crisis really is, and to show how tremendously positive the long-term outcomes can be if we commit to changing our lives in midlife.
Now I have been invited to be interviewed by Les Brown on his online internet radio program “Midlife Matters” this Thursday evening.
I’m very excited! Last week Les and I met and began discussing one of his recent blog posts. In this post he posits his brilliant idea that our present financial crisis may be a national midlife crisis.
I LOVE THIS METAPHOR!!! The more I thought about it, the more I realized how interesting this idea really is. A crisis of any kind requires us all to re-think our priorities. These dangerous times may be our opportunity to grow up and take full responsibility for our part in the irresponsibility of our nation.
Perhaps something truly positive will come of this crisis. Perhaps we will all become a little less selfish and consumer oriented, and finally learn that very few of the things that really matter in life can be bought.
Perhaps we will all become less blaming, and more responsible for our own actions. A good crisis often brings out the best in each of us. We may find some amazing qualities in ourselves, we didn’t even know we had.
Anyway, Les and I will be speaking together at this address, on Thursday, October 9th at 8 PM eastern standard time for one hour.
We will be discussing the whole gamut of questions which regularly come up around midlife change like the myths and realities surrounding midlife crisis, why depression seems to be a part of the crisis, how men and women experience and respond to midlife crisis differently, etc.
Please join us! You can call in your comments during the show at: (646) 200-0886.
If you can’t make it on October 9th, no problem! You can still listen to the entire interview at a later date, at the same URL.
