Discovering Vision

Many highly successful people find midlife confusing and unsettling. They don’t realize they are about to enter a new stage of life. They just know that things seem different—and something they can’t even define is missing.

The trigger may be a significant life event—a child leaving for college, the death of a parent, the pain of divorce, a liquidity event, a significant career success or failure in your career. Other individuals simply enter a calm season that provides the opportunity to truly see where life has—and has not—taken them. Regardless of the door through which you enter, in this first stage you will likely find yourself asking such questions as these:

• I have accomplished what I set out to do, but is there more to life?
• Am I alone in feeling this way?
• How much (stuff, money, advancement) is enough?
• In what ways is my success a platform for something even more meaningful?