Am I in Halftime?

A growing number of us reach a point in life where the pursuit of success alone is not enough. You are in Halftime if you want your second half to count for something more … perhaps something eternal. You desire the joy and satisfaction of living for a cause bigger than yourself, moving from being focused largely on success to pursuing significance. You may not be able to leave your career, (for many it is a needed platform for their second half calling) but you have some emerging flexibility with your time and resources.

Do you see yourself in these scenarios?

Halftime is triggered in a person's heart by a wide array of factors. For some it’s seeing their last child go off to High School or College. An age milestone. A bad health report or a close friend dying in their forties or fifties focuses them on the brevity of life. Often Halftimers express that the thrill of closing the next business deal isn’t quite what it was ten years ago. Some are launched into Halftime when they face early retirement, or corporate downsizing. Success often triggers Halftime because we realize at a new level that the prospect of spending the rest of our life driving the next quarter’s earnings or growing our net worth simply won’t do it for us.  In some of our lives, sadly, a breakdown in relationship triggers Halftime when we realize just how much our winning has been costing us all along.

If you arrive at this season of life with a faith perspective, in particular a Christian perspective, you have thoughts about what God has in mind for this next season of your life. The Bible says “To whom much is given, much is required” and you sense you have been given so much.

Halftime is a pause in midlife to reflect on who we are, what we have to work with, what has gone well and not so well in the first half, and then to make eye contact with God and get our unique assignment for the second half and go do it with everything we have.

Ultimately you are in Halftime if you sense you were placed here on this planet by a loving God who desires to use your first half experience and expertise to bless others and grow closer to him in the process.

Where do I go if I'm not in Halftime?