Surviving the U (How to Bump the Slump)
I am a visual learner, so let's start off with a picture and then I will explain it below. The picture: The explanation: This simple graph shows the correlation between age and well-being in the United States. Respondents rated their life satisfaction on a scale of 0-10, with zero being the worst and 10 being the best. Age goes across the bottom, satisfaction scores on the left. Do you see the slump? It's sort of hard not to!! I recently had a conversation with a friend and she commented that she thought that at this point in her life, things were supposed to get easier. You are never supposed to talk about a women's age or weight, but she is somewhere near the nadir of the curve above. I'm guessing her life satisfaction was low and I can totally relate as I'm 54 and looking for the upswing. To be honest, the last couple of years absolutely sucked as I watched my marriage unravel in the worst possible way, moved, and went into busine...