Baby Boomers Need Help Finding Personal Meaning

Some Second-Half Seekers sometimes find it difficult to capture the full measure of meaning from their lives. In former years most of our personal meaning came from the outside, but as we mature, as we approach and move into and through middle age, and especially as we approach maturing life, personal meaning comes more from within.

At every other stage of life our culture provided us with rather clear expectations and responsibilities, both of which offered us some sense of personal meaning. Such is not the case in the years leading up to and after our first midlife transition. There are few, if any clear-cut directions that give focus to zestful mature living. This can be either a good or a bad thing; it's a bad thing for those who can't think for themselves, and a good thing for those who can.

As we gradually uncover our personal purpose, we keep our eye on the transcendent goal of life. We have faith in something bigger than ourselves; we can better shoulder the ambiguities of living our life to the fullest. Finding personal meaning through life purpose is a universal human need. A need is defined as something we must have at some level; it's a requirement of the organism. If we don't find meaning we get sick. This is a stark statement that points up the necessity for our search of personal purpose. The esteemed philosopher, Viktor Frankl believed that when, and if we fail in our attempts to find purpose, we suffer a neurosis characterized by boredom, depression, hopelessness, and loss of the will to live fully.

So, how do you accomplish this gargantuan task? Certainly everyone is different, indeed, as we mature we become more the person we're intended to be, more individual and authentic. As a consequence, we appear to become more different from everyone else. Nonetheless, when we search for the vital spark of personal purpose, when we investigate deeply into our interior, we need clean-cut concepts and techniques that find surprising commonality among all "life purpose seekers."

Career Coaches can provide baby boomers with the powerful ideas, insight, wisdom, and most of all the motivation to pursue what they've always wanted but always found blocked by one "necessity" after another. Now is the time to move assertively, capture the essence of the dream that stirred you so long ago, and decide to follow it with new purpose and new determination.

The process of finding new employment (or self-employment) represents much more than a set of skills and functions; fundamentally it's your personal response to your call; it's your investment in re-starting your life. This process determines much of the environment, both physical, social and spiritual, in which you live; it selects out those special traits that you utilize most frequently, the ones that strengthen you most comprehensively. Welcome to the adventure of your lifetime!

You can read more about Dr. Richard Johnsson and ReCareer Inc., here: https://www.recareerinc.com/certification/dr-richard-p-johnson.aspx or you may call his offices directly at 636.458.0813