How do you define a midlife transition?

Wisdom used to flow from old to young, but if you’re 55 years old, there’s a 70% chance your boss is younger than you. By 2025, half of Americans will have a younger boss.

Career shifts, being an Empty Nester or a “Sandwich Generation,” menopause, divorce, downsizing home and moving to a new region: the midlife marathon is an obstacle course of transitions.

Yale professor Becca Levy has shown that transitioning to a positive mindset on aging adds 7.5 years to your life. More than stopping smoking or starting exercising.

Half of our transitions are personal and voluntary, but the pandemic has been a collective, involuntary transition that will vastly change our world. How are you preparing to master this change?

Many mid-lifers go through normal transitions suffering silently, thinking they’ve gotten the game of life wrong. We have so much to learn from each other including best practices for changing careers, spouses, or homes.

Every transition has three phases: an ending, often a “messy middle,” and a beginning, but few of us have been schooled on how to ease ourselves through this cycle with resilience and adaptability.