“How many to-do’s are on your to-do list?”
An innocent enough question.
“One hundred and fifty to two hundred,” I replied.
He laughed out loud and said “That’s nuts!”
focus
Life, by the Decade
Just got a crisp little email from my lifelong mentor Bobb Biehl.
He summarizes the focus of each decade of life as follows:
- Childhood = Security
- Teens = Self
- 20’s = Survival
- 30’s = Success
- 40’s = Significance/Struggle
- 50’s = Stride
- 60’s = Strategic
- 70’s = Succession
- 80’s = Slippery
- 90’s = Sleep
These one word summaries are the “normal” focus for each decade based on observations of thousands of people over forty years.