Living your best next half century
It is May 2019, and I am standing on the stage at the Middle East Legal Awards accepting our team’s third award of the evening. What a night it has been; recognition for our leadership, innovation and contribution to the in-house community. As I listen to the cheers and applause, I feel something strange inside of me. The juxtaposition of external celebration and internal stillness strikes me instantly. I feel empty. The realisation that I am walking someone else’s path and not my own. Standing there, in that moment, I decide that I must take another path in life. A path of greater fulfilment in life and work.
And that’s where my journey into my next half century began. Within a few weeks I had resigned from my position as General Counsel and chosen to explore what my second career might be. A journey into discovering who I am and how I can make my highest contribution in life and work.
This week, as I turn 50, I want to share my manifesto for how I want to live my best next half century. It’s not something I will achieve every day; that I know. But it is something that I will strive to achieve in every moment I have left on this earth.
With every resonance of breath, I will notice, observe and consciously choose to be. And this is what it will look like:
1. Lessons in doing
· Make my bed each morning
· Feed my body well
· Move my body throughout the day
· Indulge in activities that grow my mind and spirit
· Treat people the way I want to be treated.
2. Lessons in being
· Live every moment of every day
· Hold a space for those closest in my heart
· If others are struggling, be kind
· Follow my passions in life and, for life
· Believe in myself above all.
The journey into finding greater meaning and purpose is not a destination. Rather, it is a state of being that nourishes, challenges and stretches us with every step forward into the unknown. Happy 50th Birthday, Kiran Scarr. Welcome to living your best next half century!
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