Turning What You Love Into What You Do

Career and life are indeed a journey. Turning what you love into what you do is an ongoing process in both. The focus of this blog will now shift to examine how the RLT and the blog segments provide a playbook for navigating life itself.  ...

Most people are familiar with the phrase, “You can’t take it with you.” This mantra encourages us to live life to the fullest, seize the day and enjoy it while we can. The idea is, when our time is up, there is no way to take anything with us, which is true for material things. However, there is something we can take with us. It’s called psychic income. ...

The concept of the Encore Retirement Lifestyle is to continue the time associated with work activities we enjoyed pre-retirement and increase the time in the leisure activities we enjoy.  The goal is to merge these two lifestyle aspects to achieve maximum satisfaction and fulfillment in retirement. To do so, retirees must examine their past, explore and envision their future.  ...

We're looking at three high school graduates who are  launching their entry into the full-time workforce. This is the start of their journey to turn what they love into what they  do. Boomer readers with grandchildren in high school might want to pay close attention to the paths of these graduates. They can be a valuable resource for their grandchildren. ...

George Miller II is a child advocacy artist who has reinvented his career path a few times already. Now, after the upheavals in the marketplace brought about by the pandemic, he is examining another Plan B. If you are experiencing a forced mid-career change, consider following his example. ...

Most people at mid-career will probably still work another 20 years or longer. Will they remain happy and satisfied for the rest of their career in their current position? This blog provides a behind-the-scenes look at why successful people are willing to risk the status quo in search of something better. ...

What happens when people leave college without graduating? Much of what they do can be referred to as zigzagging, which is moving from job to job, trying out different career paths. So how do they turn what they love into what they do, and what can we learn from them? ...

This blog segment chronicles the three-step process — Examine, Explore, Envision —a college senior has taken to turn what she loves into what she does. She is an excellent example of the Road Less Traveled (RLT) Mindset, which basically means to take control of your future. ...