Once I received a response to a Future Works Gazette request on the theme Your Story Matters, I received the following wonderful story from Dorothy Meyers about an eye-opening encounter at the grocery store. She has graciously given me permission to share her story with you all. I hope you will find it as inspiring as I did in […]
Do You Mean Business…Woman?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. For more than thirty years, women have been starting businesses at about double the rate of men. For many, this was the result of hitting the glass ceiling or discovering that they didn’t want the long hours and imbalanced lives, poisoned corporate culture, and […]
A Future That Works
Of the many people who plan to continue working past retirement age, a significant number are or will be entrepreneurs. According to the Kauffman Foundation, people ages 55 to 64 consistently start more new businesses than those in any other age group, and this has been true for about a decade. We also know from […]
Equal Work for Equal Pay
As many of you know, Equal Pay themes are an opportunity to refocus on the gender gap in pay between women and men. It’s hard to believe that even in 2018, U.S. women are still earning annually between 52 and 79 cents for every dollar men earn for the same jobs, with black women and […]
Telling Our Own Truth
Legendary actress and activist Jane Fonda’s new book, Prime Time, is about living to the fullest in what she calls the “third act” of life. At 73 years old, Fonda writes about “stories from her own life and the lives of others” exploring “how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 […]
VIA Talk: Getting Paid What You Are Worth
Get ready for a cognitive jolt to your assumptions, opening the way to envisioning new alternative futures in the Aging Space for your organization, your community and for yourself as a more confident and highly valued CSA. You will have the opportunity to examine the hottest topic on the minds of leading CSAs and newbies […]
The Sharing Economy
In his book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum offers essential tidbits of wisdom most of us learned as children, including “Share everything. Dont take things that aren’t yours. Put things back where you found them.” In the last decade or so, adults have been revisiting these essential lessons […]
What Is Wisdom?
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. —Sandra Carey I’d like to continue the conversation about the attributes of a visionary by focusing on one that is probably the most obvious yet the most elusive to define: wisdom. We usually know it when […]
Purpose or Profit
Most of us want to make a difference in the world, to follow our passion and live lives of significance and purpose. But many feel like they can’t do this and still make the money they need to make, especially after the recession. Either we do what we love or we meet our financial needs. […]
What’s Your Success Look Like
In Seth Godin’s blog post, he makes an excellent point about why we sometimes don’t get very far in our endeavors, even when we are taking action every day. Often out of fear, our actions are either too small, too easy, to get us anywhere, or, out of our impatience, they are too big and […]
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