Randall K. Hartman's Blog, page 5
November 8, 2016
Tom’s List for Baby Boomers: Live Life Intensely Curious
Laura loved writing her life stories into a journal. She became curious what it would be like to turn her stories into a published book. Her curiosity spurred her to investigate the possibility. We can all rejoice that Laura Ingalls Wilder responded to her inner curiosity. At the age of 64 she published her first […]
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November 5, 2016
Friends with Benefits: The New Measure of Wealth
Do you have any friends with benefits? Forty years is a long time. Last weekend I gathered in a room with my college classmates from the class of 1976. We had a great time remembering the past. I’d been asked to speak to the group on the subject of what our college meant to me. […]
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November 1, 2016
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Have you faced times in your life when you hit a roadblock? It’s as though a boulder dropped out of the sky and landed in your path. Without warning life hiccoughed and stalled. How do you handle those situations? What do you do when you don’t know what to do? At my recent 40th college […]
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October 25, 2016
Getting Older is a Privilege – Please Don’t Take it Lightly
This weekend I will attend my 40 year college reunion. The speed of the passing years rivals that of a freight train out of control. In my head I’m still the crazy college guy who acted like a campus idiot. My aging body, however, understands many years have come and gone. But I’m not complaining. […]
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October 18, 2016
How True Friends Respond in Times of Serious Illness
My friends are getting sick at an alarming rate. No doubt it goes with the aging process. We all get our share of aches and pains but some illnesses are a matter of life and death. When your friend is diagnosed with a serious illness, do you know how true friends respond? It’s tricky. You […]
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October 14, 2016
A Brief Primer on Growing Old Gracefully
At the age of seven our next door neighbor was an old man named Mac. His carefully manicured lawn stood at attention like his flat top hairdo. Crabbiness oozed from every pore of his body. If we kicked a ball into his yard he acted like we were three-headed demons attacking his little kingdom. It’s […]
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October 11, 2016
If You Are Serious About Doing Work That Matters Do THIS
As you leave behind your established career, it’s time to do work that matters. To some extent the work you’ve done matters. Even if you’ve been a worker on an assembly line it’s work that matters. But in my mind, work that matters means specifically work that matters to you and to someone else. It’s […]
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October 7, 2016
6 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Impact Your World Today
You hear it everywhere: the world is a mess. Few would argue to the contrary; especially in this mean-spirited political season. Don’t you wish a super hero would step up and do something? Why not you? Why don’t you impact your world? Right away you shrink back because changing the world is beyond your pay-grade. […]
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October 4, 2016
Warning: Don’t Ignore This Greatest Life Lesson
Self-improvement gurus write books on important life lessons. Each lesson is portrayed as the greatest life lesson you must learn. Then, in the next chapter, they give you another “most important lesson” for improving your life. I’ve been wondering, if I was forced to only champion one greatest life lesson, what I would choose. It […]
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September 30, 2016
Retire From Work BUT Never Retire From Life
If you long for the day when you can retire from work, no one blames you. In spite of the many articles I’ve written which vilify the evils of taking a traditional retirement, I’m admitting I was wrong. But my error was not in principle but a failure to clarify. Many Baby Boomers have done […]
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