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Serene Ambition is about what we can do, and more importantly, who we can be as we grow older.
In 1979, I was designing a marketing seminar targeted to ‘seniors’.
I believed that everyone at every age is basically afraid of dying and
was working within that assumption. I interviewed a number of people,
mostly in their 70s and 80s, and began to see that, after a certain
point, they weren’t afraid of dying at all. They were, however, afraid
of dying without
Jim Selman | Photo Credit: Tony Perzel
I am a middle-aged guy in the process of creating the
rest of my life. I am very committed to not getting sucked into the
historical/cultural conversation of what it means to grow older and
what is and isn’t possible as we age. I want the rest of my life to be
more interesting, more challenging and more fulfilling than anytime in
my past—and my past has been terrific.
I have had a pretty good run so far—a great family,
Kevin Brown is an independent management consultant with over 25 years of senior management experience in the information
systems industry, specializing in the utility and banking sectors. Kevin has served as director of the Edmonton Capital Region Housing
Corporation, vice president of the board of directors for the Edmonton
Street Performer’s Festival, president of the InfoCity Technology
Festival, and chairman of the board of his local church. He currently
Inspirational stories can make a difference in someone’s life.
That’s why we’d love to hear yours. If you have a story about growing older that you would like to share, just enter it in the POST A COMMENT space below and then click the Post button at the bottom of the page. We’ll post it in the "Inspiration" section of this site after we’ve reviewed it.
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Sharon Knoll has been working to support and empower people most of her adult
life. She began in the early 1980s as a volunteer for The Hunger
Project and offered transformational workshops and seminars as a
volunteer. She was one of the earliest members of Transformational
Technologies and has been committed to making a difference in the lives
of people with whom she has worked. Her interest in aging was
highlighted recently in her sponsorship of
Here are a few more books we highly recommend. Click on a title to
be redirected to Amazon.com where you can search inside and/or order the book.
Aged by Culture
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
The Ageless Spirit
Edited by Connie Goldman
Claiming Your Place at the Fire
By Richard Leider and David Shapiro
From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older
By Schacter-Shalomi, Azlman & Ronald S. Miller
By David Korten | Great Turning website
Many of us have been anticipating the day of reckoning for our reckless human ways for decades. That day has arrived. Peak oil, climate chaos, financial collapse, and spreading social disintegration are all consequences of deep cultural and institutional dysfunction. The imperative to address them presents us with an epic test of our human intelligence and creativity.
When I was a student in business school my professors always told us "Go for the Big