Dr. Nik - Psychologist + Media Consultant + Advocate
Description: Musings of the Good Dr.
Musings of the Good Dr.
It’s true, you wake up one day and just like that (snap fingers), you’re 50. And I’ve been turning 50, celebrating 50, touting 50, and coming for 50 for well over a year now. For me, it was a process and a journey that I consciously and intentionally chose to embrace. I remember growing up when people didn’t embrace 50. They rather lamented it and feared it like it was a scarlet letter or a plague. If you were 50, then you were old, used up, not useful. And so people ran away from it. They went out and boug
It’s true, 50 spurs a sort of existential shift — as it should. You realize that half your life is over. You sit with the realization that if you’re super blessed then maybe, just maybe you’ll get another 50 years. But even the best Vegas odds are, you won’t. And that thought right there sobers me. The thought that half my life, well, more than half of it is probably over — that thought focuses me and fuels me. It fuels me to do better. But mostly to be better. To love better and harder and more. And to say
Dr. Nik - Psychologist + Media Consultant + Advocate