Hey… if you’ve arrived here chances are you were hangin’ out with us at the SMARTMOVERS launch event this past Friday the 13th (Yea… “scary”!).  Good guys like Pat Cashman, Martin and Monte from Sozo Wine, Rajiv, Chef Gabe and Jerry Kingen, owner of Salty’s, all pulled together to make for good food, good wine, good times and the good cause of providing meals through the Federal Way Foodbank.

Or…. maybe you’d like to be hangin’ with these SMARTMOVERS  down the road, at one of the next events we pull off. (Sorry to those that we had to turn away this time…don’t you hate it when its a “Sold Out” scenario?)

Or… you ‘ve got a business in mind that you think SMARTMOVERS should shine its light on for exposure.

Or… maybe you’d like to launch your own “home version” of connecting the dots; of “good-guy” businesses + good food and drink +  good cause. We can help with that.  It’s actually pretty dang easy to launch your very own SMARTMOVERS Club. Martin and Monte at Sozo Friends will show you how.

Anywho… let me know what’s on your mind. Seriously, I like to know what you’re thinking about these days, especially when it comes to helping Boomers navigate life with more good waypoints on their map. Leave me a comment below… I’ll have my “people” get with your “people” (I guess the proper term is “peeps”, according to my teen-aged daughter.)

Best!

Mike

“Dez a whole lotta occupyin’ goin’ on out dere”!. (You have “hear” that statement as voiced by the cartoon character FogHorn Leghorn, who most folks recognize as having been overtly modeled after some quintessential U.S. Senator-type hailing from south of the Mason Dixon line.)

Hey, I’ve had my fill of  Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Seattle, Occupy “Where-ever”.  By the way, how come there’s no Occupy Ballard, or Occupy Sultan, or Occupy Fife gaining traction? Although, in the case of Ballard, I can understand. Folks there are quick to point out, “We don’t really need something else here on our streets that smells as bad as  Lutefisk”. (That would be rotted herring for the uninitiated.) But PLEASE…  DO let me know when “Occupy Kaanapali Beach, Maui” kicks off… and I’ll sign right on for that brand of protest movement.

Anyway, speaking of  “occupying”, it was interesting for me to read this week that…

 ”According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, slightly over 5 percent of the 65+ population occupy nursing homes, congregate care, assisted living, and board-and-care homes, and about 4.2 percent are in nursing homes at any given time. The rate of nursing home use increases with age from 1.4 percent of the young-old to 24.5 percent of the oldest-old. Almost 50 percent of those 95 and older live in nursing homes”.

(Note: That’s a 10-fold increase in the chances of not living in your current home as age ratchets up.)

What  I wonder about is this… What if people took a little time to just sit down and think about where they see themselves living at the various stages of their aging journey… say, at 55, at 65, at 75, at 85, at 95+ years old? Yes, I know, everyone is going to say,  “Well son, this home I’m in right now is the one they’re going to carry me out of to my grave”. But that just isn’t the case for lots of people. That’s not dealing with life’s realities of growing old… just like the Occupy Wall Street crowd isn’t dealing with life’s realities of growing up.

Someone much wiser than I once said, “Here’s how anything of value has gotten accomplished by man throughout the course of history… Vision, followed by Intention followed by Means. Formula VIM, if you will. What’s your vision for the places and spaces that you see yourself occupying that would serve to enhance your leading a life of fruitfulness and contribution all the way to the end? That’s what I truly enjoy helping folks design towards when they are weighing their housing options in The GoodLife 3.0.

Writes Peter Drucker in this seminal Harvard Business Review article from 1999…

“History’s great achievers– a Napoleon, a da Vinci, a Mozart– have always managed themselves. That, in large measure, is what makes them great achievers. But, they are the rare exceptions, so unusual both in their talents and their accomplishments as to be considered outside the boundaries of ordinary human existence. Now, most of us, even those of us with modest endowments, will have to learn to manage ourselves. We will have to develop ourselves. We will have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution. And, we will have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change what we do”. click here to continue reading the full HBR article…

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