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“I'm at the halfway point of my life and I'm taking stock.”
The midpoint is the best place to course-correct. You have enough experience to know what has worked and what has not, and enough time remaining to do something significant with that knowledge. This reckoning, honest and forward-looking, is one of the most valuable investments you can make.
Your Practice
Divide a page into two columns: what you have built that you are proud of, and what you have not yet built that still matters. Then write one sentence for each column: what you want to protect from the first, and what you want to start from the second. Use that as your compass for the next season.
The Architects
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "Conclusion" (1854)