Oh, Life! A Simple Tool for Chronicling Life Transitions

If you’re like me, you have probably started to keep a journal on at least several occasions, thinking that it would be nice to have a record of what you were doing

A New Definition of Entrepreneurship

A new definition of entrepreneurship and 10 principles for entrepreneurial success

What is Success?

One Man's Definition of Happiness

The founder of the Center for Well-Being offers a prescription for individual happiness, proposes an index of national well-being.

Know Yourself!  (Free)

A Consumer Guide to the Myers Briggs Test, the Strong Inventory, Birkman and Other Leading Career Aptitude Tests and Personality Tests – Which One is Right for You?

Life Values Self-Assessment Test -- Values Defined

A list of values ranked in the Life Values Self-Assessment Test and descriptions of what they represent.

How To Plan for a Fulfilling Retirement: Resources for Volunteering At Home and Abroad

You've worked your whole adult life and have finally saved enough to retire comfortably. The children are grown up and have (hopefully) moved out of the house...

12 Steps to Work Sanity -- And Improved Life Balance

We are all encouraged to find work about which we are passionate.  This is the ideal:  to work at something you “love” and get paid, too!

Life Values Self-Assessment Test: Next Steps

Use the results of your Life Values Self-Assessment Test to develop a plan to achieve a more balanced and fulfilling life

Discover the benefits of a Career Change to a Lifestyle Business

My friend Mark Miller, who is also a regular contributor to WhatsNext.com, recently published a book entitled

Consider A Midlife Career Change to Teaching

The rewards of teaching are enormous, and so is the need for excellent teachers. In the next decade, there will be 1.5 million teaching vacancies in the United States, according to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Millions of baby boomers are retiring from the profession, and a staggering 50 percent of new teachers leave the field within their first five years --the equivalent of nearly a thousand teachers, both novice and seasoned, calling it quits every day. All the vacancies won't be filled, because of funding issues. Still, it will be a major challenge to recruit and retain enough educators, never mind top talent.

6 Things Retirement Calculators Get Wrong

An overview of the problems with many online retirement calculators -- and how you can compensate for the shortcomings.

Four Strategies for Charting a Midlife Career Change

It's common for people in midlife to feel a strong urge to change careers in search of something more meaningful or fulfilling.

Discovering What Matters -- A Powerful Self-Assessment Tool

One of my goals in this blog is to make my readers aware of resources available in the market that can help to build self-awareness and plan a midlife career change .

Are You Happy?

A Simple Roadmap To Happiness

3 Questions That Could Change Your Life

At a certain age, many of us start to grapple with some tough questions about our future, and we start to focus more attention on the issue of what is truly important to us.

Emerging Second Career Opportunities in Education

Experts project growing opportunties for midlife career change to teaching in the next decade. Mass Retirement of Teachers Anticipated.

What Your Really Need In Retirement -- Friends

Sylvia Bereskin writes about her first year of life in retirement.

Older Entrepreneurs Target Peers

Many older business owners are finding success by targeting their own age group. Feeling that no one else understand their particular needs, an increasing number of retired or semi-retired entrepreneurs are developing businesses that relate specifically to the needs of older Americans.

10 Ways Baby Boomers Will Reinvent Retirement

Baby boomers have redefined every life stage they have passed through, and retirement will be no different. Baby boomers have redefined every life stage they have passed through, and retirement will be no different.

Three Free Self-Assessment Tests

The start of the new year is a great time for personal reflection and taking stock.  This process can often be enriched with the help of feedback from self-assessment tests that provide feedback and insight into various aspects of personality, aptitudes, interests, and character.

Three Questions That Could Change Your Life

With all the turmoil in the economy, many of us grappling with some very tough questions about our near-term and long-term future. This situation has reminded me of a book by Lee Eisenberg that I read a few years back called “The Number,” in which he focused on the whole notion of what it means to be financially independent.

Welcome To What's Next

Why We’re Here. No doubt about it -- we live in challenging times. The economy is in turmoil... unemployment is hitting levels not seen in decades... and eighty million baby boomers are moving rapidly toward a stage of life that used to be called ‘retirement.’

Career Anchors

A self-assessment test to help you find your "real self" from Edgar Schein