Meaningful Returns

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received came from a good friend just a couple of months before my wife gave birth to our son (and first child). He said, “We often think of transitions only in terms of beginning the new phase, but ending the old one is no less important.”

Whether it’s phasing from a two person family to one with three, phasing from work to leisure (or vice versa), phasing from kids in the home to empty-nestdom, or phasing from a career to financial independence–we would do well by purposefully celebrating the old while putting it to rest, and then welcoming the new as we anticipate its inception. This is no easy task, but one that I think pays huge dividends.