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Why choose recklessness at midlife
At midlife, you are ready to choose recklessness.
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Reckful, Defined
Reckfulness is the habit of using careful calculation to stay on a culturally approved path, even when that path no longer fits.
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Reckless, Defined
Recklessness is the choice to move without guarantees when careful calculation has brought stagnation rather than joyful vitality.
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Reckoning, Defined
Reckoning is the belief that you can predict outcomes if you just count, analyze, and compute possibilities as rigorously as possible.
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Escaping the trap of enoughness
To ask if something is enough is to invite a spreadsheet into the forest.
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Say Okay
To be reckless is to know that any commitment—a partner, a job, a pet, a house—comes with boredom, irritation, limitation, and grief. And then to choose it anyway.
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Look to Your Future
The future cannot be extrapolated. It can only be entered.
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Make room for your future to unfold
Ask yourself: what is no longer working in my life? And be ready to let go of it.
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Giving up goal-setting
At midlife, you stop relying on goals to give your life meaning. You find joy in being present, in connecting with people you love, in creating good things in the world.
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Finding the Unself
The real world beckons when you let go of the self.
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Take Off Your Mask
At midlife, your postponed self demands to live in the light.
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The Recklessness of Creative Action
To create is to step forward without armor, to act before permission arrives. To risk being seen as flawed, dumb, unskilled, even delusional. To destroy your safety in service of the sublime.
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Reckless Wealth through Giving
Wealth and abundance increases when you increase its flow.
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When You Can’t Control What’s Coming
The philosophy of recklessness says “let go and let go (and let go and let go).”
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Trust in Your Becoming
Open yourself up to the becoming of yourself into the future. You are not done changing.
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Just Complete the Task
The less you rate and judge the results of your actions in your daily life, and instead celebrate having shown up at all, the happier and more motivated you will feel.
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Choosing Your Next Action
Meaning isn’t given to you by your culture, your parents, or your god. You create meaning through your choices and your actions.
Reckless: A Daybook for Midlife Reinvention
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