Nobody Hands You a Manual for Any of These Decades · The Masterwork Years

Both of them look equally terrified

Being in your 40s is weird.

Five men and women in their forties, standing together and looking nothing alike in health, weight, or apparent age.

Your college roommate is selling his company. Your neighbor is starting over from zero. Both look equally terrified.

Someone in your group chat is training for an Ironman. You pulled a hamstring putting on socks.

Half the room wants a bigger house. The other half is trying to get rid of what they already own.

Somewhere between the school drop-off and the board meeting, you stop waiting to feel like an adult. You are one.

You'll never hear about it

A kid you encouraged remembers it more often than you'd guess.

Your smile landed on somebody's worst day and unbeknownst to you, it turned their day around.

You figure out in real time what to do with all that's clamoring for attention, while paying the mortgage.

40

And you? What are you building? What is it costing you?

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Read that backward and the pattern falls apart.

Your brother, bored by month two. Your former boss, calling the merger his best decision. Same decade, opposite ends.

A colleague on a third career. Another still loving the one from 22. Same decade.

A roommate selling his company. A neighbor starting from zero. Same decade, and both terrified.

Not one person here is where their number says they should be.

The Masterwork Years are a stage, not an age.

Livelihood has your full attention. It's paying the mortgage and it should.

Legacy is at the other shoulder. Most people in their 40s haven't turned to look.

The Masterwork tree stands between them, and the work that can only be done from there is available now.

All three are live in your 40s. You don't finish one and graduate to the next.

Between Livelihood & Legacy —That's Masterwork,
Where your Wisdom leaves its mark.

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