Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.
Don’t just dream big; follow through.
Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery ‘halftime,’ and the outcome led to my second half.
Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker’s incomparable legacy.
My fruit grows on other people’s trees.
Prayer is, for me, like that – a state of being together with God. It’s not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It’s more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.
It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.
As you take stock, ask yourself these similar questions: What is my passion? How am I wired? Where do I belong? What do I believe? What will I do about what I believe? Or, as Peter Drucker advised people who were looking for their life’s task: What are my values, my aspirations, my directions, and what do I have to do, to learn, to change, in order to make myself capable of living up to my demands on myself and my expectations of life?
God uses all kinds of people to get us the help we need if we will just be aware and sensitive.
The key to a successful second half is not a change of jobs; it is a change of heart, a change in the way you view the world and order your life.
After God made you, he stepped back and said, “This is a great one!
Halftime is not about beating yourself up for what you did not do, but for coming to terms with your failures and recognizing that you live under grace.
Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.
The existential writer Albert Camus discovered this truth: “In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” We.