Jonathan Fields shares groundbreaking approach to intentionally designing midlife, focusing on career reinvention, personal growth, and purposeful transitions.
Love this so much, what a wonderful reframe of how to look at aging, living well, learning and growing all along the way. For me, (turning 49 in two weeks) I can feel a shift coming as well. I'm leaning into presence, connection, joy.
The 2X20 resonates so much with my approach to abundant living! My 3 pillars for abundance are akin to your 3 words. They guide me and keep me grounded. My pillars are: Emotionally-Rich Relationships, Radical Self-Honesty, and Using Time for Fulfillment.
Jonathan! This is a blueprint for what I call "Sovereign Season-Shaping".
You’ve named something many of us feel but rarely make sacred, or ritualize: The end of one identity-chapter, and the conscious architecture of the next one. Most people chase reinvention through urgency. You’re creating it through presence, pattern-recognition and -pacing, and a long-enough horizon to let soul actually lead.
I’ve been developing something I call Execution Intelligence - the art of turning inner clarity into outer architecture, especially for business. Your 2x20 process is one of the purest expressions of it I’ve seen in the wild. It’s not just a vision. It’s ritualized becoming. Anchored in truth, structured by rhythm, and governed not by ROI but by the soul’s return.
This line hit me especially hard:
“You don’t have to be 58 to feel what I’m feeling.”
Exactly. I’m younger, but I feel the micro-seasons too. I just realize: I'm turning 38 in about a month from now. So, the next decade looms for me, too. Oh, and I feel it... The urgency of alignment. The refusal to waste even one more cycle in performance or misalignment. And the desire to live into a future I won’t regret - because I chose it with full awareness.
Interesting how things align. Just this morning, I chose a personal sacred quest to build my health and fitness, over the next 6+ months, like never before. That easily qualifies for my 2x20.
Thank you for modeling that. And for reminding us all that structure doesn’t have to be sterile - it can be sacred.
Interesting how we both are of the same age, but life has given us different circumstances. I am just turning my life around and starting over almost from scratch. I too am a maker (Have followed your work), but wasn't able to make the changes I so much wanted till I discovered at this late stage my neurodivergence, and figured out how to overcome my CPTSD. Finally the missing pieces of the puzzle were there for me. And starting over, but this time aligned and with purpose. That liminal place is still a little hard to not fall back in the fear, but I feel I'm doing it. Unlike you I'm just beginning. I always thought I hope to live long enough. It can happen. My words are thriving, joy, community. Maybe joy I'm good at. But thriving and community, they kinda go hand in hand and I got my work cut out.
Ironically, I’m doing something similar. I’m taking 12-18 months to do some due diligence on a major life change. I like your idea of experimentation versus what I’ve been calling it “research”
This really resonated with me! I’ve been feeling the same tension and it was a good reminder to me to remain focused, but in a loose way. I really enjoyed the presentation of concepts to consider rather than a ‘ how to’. Thank you. Saving this to re-read!
Plant native pollinator plants everywhere. Plant fruit trees everywhere, in both urban and rural areas, so everyone has access to clean, healthy, and free food as Mother Earth intended.
I went through similar thoughts and processes from 58 to 60 - but 6 months before I turned 60, I was diagnosed with cancer, and spent the entire year going through treatments. In two weeks, I'll be 2 years past that diagnosis, cancer-free, and every day for the past 2 years, I've thanked God for allowing me to live, and for granting me more TIME. I think daily about the future - the legacy I'm leaving behind, not only from what I've done in the past but mostly from what I do from this day- every day - forward. Simplicity, significance, and joy are indeed the way I live now. I look forward to following your journey as I start my own - I launch my own newsletter Tuesday. Best wishes to you!
Jste obětí svých neustálých tužeb,pořád něco chcete,proč se honíte,zastavte se, život je jednoduchý stačí jen být.
This would do numbers on LinkedIn, maybe you should post there instead of here
Love this so much, what a wonderful reframe of how to look at aging, living well, learning and growing all along the way. For me, (turning 49 in two weeks) I can feel a shift coming as well. I'm leaning into presence, connection, joy.
I am looking at 70 in a little more than a year so your writing resonated with me. My 3 defining qualities:
1. Strength - enough to do what I want and be independent.
2. Connections - friends and especially my family and grandkids
3. Enthusiasm - to explore, learn, challenge myself and start new adventures.
Thanks for the impetus to do this !
The 2X20 resonates so much with my approach to abundant living! My 3 pillars for abundance are akin to your 3 words. They guide me and keep me grounded. My pillars are: Emotionally-Rich Relationships, Radical Self-Honesty, and Using Time for Fulfillment.
I wrote a series about them called Abundance Unveiled! This is the first post in the series: https://abundantlyfemi.substack.com/p/abundance-unveiled-part-i-the-art?r=4h1bgc
Jonathan! This is a blueprint for what I call "Sovereign Season-Shaping".
You’ve named something many of us feel but rarely make sacred, or ritualize: The end of one identity-chapter, and the conscious architecture of the next one. Most people chase reinvention through urgency. You’re creating it through presence, pattern-recognition and -pacing, and a long-enough horizon to let soul actually lead.
I’ve been developing something I call Execution Intelligence - the art of turning inner clarity into outer architecture, especially for business. Your 2x20 process is one of the purest expressions of it I’ve seen in the wild. It’s not just a vision. It’s ritualized becoming. Anchored in truth, structured by rhythm, and governed not by ROI but by the soul’s return.
This line hit me especially hard:
“You don’t have to be 58 to feel what I’m feeling.”
Exactly. I’m younger, but I feel the micro-seasons too. I just realize: I'm turning 38 in about a month from now. So, the next decade looms for me, too. Oh, and I feel it... The urgency of alignment. The refusal to waste even one more cycle in performance or misalignment. And the desire to live into a future I won’t regret - because I chose it with full awareness.
Interesting how things align. Just this morning, I chose a personal sacred quest to build my health and fitness, over the next 6+ months, like never before. That easily qualifies for my 2x20.
Thank you for modeling that. And for reminding us all that structure doesn’t have to be sterile - it can be sacred.
Subscribed. Deeply in resonance.
- Thane
Interesting how we both are of the same age, but life has given us different circumstances. I am just turning my life around and starting over almost from scratch. I too am a maker (Have followed your work), but wasn't able to make the changes I so much wanted till I discovered at this late stage my neurodivergence, and figured out how to overcome my CPTSD. Finally the missing pieces of the puzzle were there for me. And starting over, but this time aligned and with purpose. That liminal place is still a little hard to not fall back in the fear, but I feel I'm doing it. Unlike you I'm just beginning. I always thought I hope to live long enough. It can happen. My words are thriving, joy, community. Maybe joy I'm good at. But thriving and community, they kinda go hand in hand and I got my work cut out.
Interesting concept! It’s more about living intentionally rather than planning…
I may need more than 3 words but clearly focusing on health, and what brings joy, love, and community…
I’ve been thinking about this too. https://substack.com/@waypointsix/note/p-160433980?r=1d0wac&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I am doing it right now.
jasonmankin@substack.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmankin
Ironically, I’m doing something similar. I’m taking 12-18 months to do some due diligence on a major life change. I like your idea of experimentation versus what I’ve been calling it “research”
I’m looking forward to following your journey.
Love this for you!!😊
This really resonated with me! I’ve been feeling the same tension and it was a good reminder to me to remain focused, but in a loose way. I really enjoyed the presentation of concepts to consider rather than a ‘ how to’. Thank you. Saving this to re-read!
Plant native pollinator plants everywhere. Plant fruit trees everywhere, in both urban and rural areas, so everyone has access to clean, healthy, and free food as Mother Earth intended.
I went through similar thoughts and processes from 58 to 60 - but 6 months before I turned 60, I was diagnosed with cancer, and spent the entire year going through treatments. In two weeks, I'll be 2 years past that diagnosis, cancer-free, and every day for the past 2 years, I've thanked God for allowing me to live, and for granting me more TIME. I think daily about the future - the legacy I'm leaving behind, not only from what I've done in the past but mostly from what I do from this day- every day - forward. Simplicity, significance, and joy are indeed the way I live now. I look forward to following your journey as I start my own - I launch my own newsletter Tuesday. Best wishes to you!
You got me hooked within the first paragraph! Subscribed and ready to follow along.
I would get myself healthy