“This is the year that I turn 60”.
I wrote those words in my first blog and this event is the reason that I started this conversation about “the Third Act” in the first place. Well, it is official now as this month I actually celebrated my 60th birthday. It was a bit of a non-event actually. Not because we did not celebrate it; we did celebrate it after all with a wonderful stay in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. And not because I felt that “no one remembered” because I received some of the most endearing cards and letters that I could have ever expected. No, it was more of a non-event emotionally because I had decided to “turn 60 in my mind”, months before the actual date. My decision to do so brings into focus some of the research that comes out of the neuroscience labs that inform us that if we can “bring the target closer”, “get started on the goal sooner”, it gives us a sense of momentum and we feel like we are much farther along the way. That’s how I feel.
The Third Act 