How to answer your call in mid-life

Written by Craig Nathanson


Hank Bochenski’s story proves it is never too late to walk away from a life you feel trapped in and do something that you really love. Hank spent 30 years in demanding senior positions at large high-tech companies. Byrepparttar time he went home each day, he felt like allrepparttar 130043 blood had been drained out of him. Hank’s real passion was his collection of more than 1,000 movies. He had recently spent hours convertingrepparttar 130044 collection from VHS to DVD, a process he enjoyed. One day his wife walked by as he worked on this project and said, “It’s too bad you can’t make money doing this.” Before his wife’s offhand remark, he hadn’t considered that he could do this full time. He did some research and found a company called Home Video Studio Inc., in Indianapolis. HVS offers 21 services, including DVD transfers, DVD duplications, home movie transfers, photo-video keepsakes, sports scholarship videos and videotape repair. Hank and his wife did some due diligence and decided that this was a perfect opportunity for them and they went ahead and got intorepparttar 130045 video duplication business. And to top it all off, Hank's studio is in his own home--no more 1.5-hour each way daily commute. What Happens in Mid-Life? Mid-life is a time of challenges and crossroads. Often we re-evaluate our relationships, become more concerned about our health or worry about whether we are as financially secure as we should be. The biggest challenges in mid-life often involve our careers, and more centrally, whether our careers are providingrepparttar 130046 fulfillment we crave, or are simply exhausting us physically and emotionally. In mid-life, fulfillment and meaning begin to compete with paychecks and perks, andrepparttar 130047 paycheck and perks usually win. Answeringrepparttar 130048 Call to Vocational Passion Before you can take action to changerepparttar 130049 course of your life and pursue your vocational passion, it is critical to take an inventory of your life and what is really important. You must begin by understanding what is missing. You need to have a dream and a plan for achieving it. Start by making a list ofrepparttar 130050 things that are missing in your life. Is it a passion from your youth that you can never find time to pursue? Is it music, a sport, writing, cooking, activism, entrepreneurship, working with kids? It doesn’t matter, as long as it is something you long to do, and have enough passion to do it full time.

A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD RULE

Written by Terry L. Sumerlin


The pre-teen “cleaned up” real nice and looked good in his new haircut. In fact, I was plum proud of my work. But, he was totally under-whelmed. In an attempt to get a smile, I said, “You really don’t need to be quite so excited about this haircut.” His mom laughed, but he didn’t.

After they left, another customer commented torepparttar effect thatrepparttar 130039 boy would likely have been happier about his haircut had it been his idea. “Probably so, I replied, “But apparently that wasrepparttar 130040 golden rule in action. Mom hadrepparttar 130041 gold. So she maderepparttar 130042 rule.”

After we enjoyed a laugh, I began to think more seriously regardingrepparttar 130043 real meaning ofrepparttar 130044 golden rule. No question, in dealing with others, its value is as gold. Yet, few seem to really understand it, and even fewer apply it.

However, bothrepparttar 130045 religious and non-religious have heard it: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Actually it’s a paraphrase of Jesus’ words in Matthew 7:12. But, religious considerations aside forrepparttar 130046 present, what dorepparttar 130047 words mean?

For certain,repparttar 130048 principle involves something better than returning meanness for meanness, rudeness for rudeness or injury for injury. Yet, we somehow feel justified in personal or business relationships when we mistreat those who have mistreated us. In response to such, we might simply ask, “How’s that working for you?”

Your response might be, “It sure doesn’t work as well as when I am nice to others.” Indeed! Yet, in light of such we sometimes misconstruerepparttar 130049 rule to mean that we should simply repay kindness with kindness. And, that’s certainly an improvement over rude for rude. However, it doesn’t require much of us. Most can be nice to those who are nice to them.

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