Masterwork | Age 45 – 65 (with audio)

The Masterwork Phase age 45–65, begins at the culmination of the Journeywork years (age 25-45) during which time you distinguished yourself as a skilled craftsperson by the quality of your work. If you have learned endurance and practiced stamina during your Journeywork phase, you will arrive at the Masterwork phase with both strength and confidence based on demonstrated experience.

The Masterwork Phase is the time for executing a master plan based on the resources and skills developed during the Journeywork phase. However, many men and women approaching their mid-forties, after striving through their Journeywork years, arrive at the threshold of Masterworks only to be confronted with painful questions:

“What has it all been for? What shall I do with the rest of my life after having given “my best years” to the company or raising a family, or having been the faithful spouse? What’s there for me to do now?”

What Is the Plan?

For the craftsperson of life the Masterwork phase is a very dynamic time. It is the time in one’s life after having struggled to master oneself and the unstable world around us, that one is still young enough and energetic, yet old enough to have wisdom to achieve great heights.

Masterwork is the time for executing your master plan and polishing your life — your “ultimate masterpiece.” Where Journeywork is the time of giving form, definition and substance to your life, Masterwork is the period of “finish carpentry.” All the thousand details put right that make the difference between a job begun, and a job well finished. You will need the approximately 20 years of the Masterwork phase to accomplish ‘pieces of mastery’ or ‘Masterpieces’.

Craftsmanship In the Masterwork Phase

If you look at masterpieces created in any medium, the master craftsperson will often tell you it took time and effort stretching them beyond their limits to new levels of craftsmanship.

In The Way of Craftsmanship, we discuss the fundamental principals at work throughout all Four Phases of life-as-a-craft. That true satisfaction comes not only from the finished work, but also from the process by which it was done. The skill that requires years of practice and refinement to perfect.

When applied to ones own life as the ‘masterpiece in the making’, the Masterworks phase opens the next level of accomplishment in subjects within each of The Five Elements of life-as-a-craft.