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Al Gustafson was shaving when he noticed a traction under his right eye. In the last 3 months, his father was dead, he had a back surgery and he continued to draw regularly from 15 and 16 hours as Executive Director of a non-profit organization in Chicago. Looking in the mirror that morning, the contraction does not stop. So he says to himself: "I'm not good. I have to do something."

Next Monday, he turned his resignation. Gustafson, 41, has soon set up a "workplace work portfolio" which included three part-time jobs - in a church, as a career counselor and as President of a philanthropic group. He emptied his work schedule and filled his family calendar with things such as training his baseball team of his son and picking up his children from school. "I feel happy again," said Gustafson. "I have a sense of satisfaction deeper and I am engaged in life."

When men reach their 40 years, their attitudes often change. We wonder, what am I doing with my life? How can I make my life more fulfilled? What could I have done better? And now? Help people assess the state of their lives, Richard Leider, author ofThe power of the goal: to create a meaning in your life and your work, Asked those who know: people over 65 years old. While looking for her book, the lidais wanted to determine what people over 65 could do differently if they could relive their forties, and he found that they had three common regrets. Here they are. And for help to fight against the biggest questions of life, here is theSimple way to build a durable legacy.

Reflection generally comes during a crisis, but most men the interviewee lidois wanted to take longer to regularly review the big picture.

Not by parachuting, but being bolder in their career and relationships.

They wanted them to focus more on their own result than society. "They wanted them to care about quarantine and mid-life, which they were or did not do in the world," says the lidois.

In this spirit, the lidois suggests two exam exercises of your own life. Here they are:

Take 5 minutes by yourself to think about what you did that day. The process helps to show whether the small tasks you have accomplished contribute to your greater goals.

Leider also recommends an annual home retirement for yourself - at least one day or even a week in which you evaluate the past year and develop personal goals for the following year, just as you would do it in your work.

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