Habits can be hard to break. Especially in midlife. Do you know how habits develop? Habits are just practiced behavior that eventually become involuntary; midlife habits can be hard to break. Whatever you practice becomes a habit. What you practice DOING becomes a habit. What you practice NOT DOING also becomes a habit. This...
Continue readingHow do you make a REALLY BIG decision?
I’m fascinated with how people make big decisions. Some of you have no problem making a big decision. Others get overwhelmed and confused into paralysis. Which category do you fall into? Are you the first type? Do you generally think, “I got this…bring it on!” Or are you the second type, more of a...
Continue readingThree tips to procrastinate less
Most of us are familiar with the fine art of procrastination. It’s a definition we know well; procrastination is all about putting things off or delaying… Until another day… Until another time… Until you finish watching five more YouTube videos about sloths crossing the road or quintuplet babies giggling their adorable little faces off....
Continue readingThe art of practice
When’s the last time you practiced something new? Everything in life is practice even though you may not think of it that way. You practice what you want, and you also practice what you don’t want. And what you practice becomes a habit. I’ve recently had an amazing opportunity to be in a small...
Continue readingExclusive midlife insider secret—menopause can be joyful!
Menopause and joy aren’t two words that can commonly be found together in a happy little headline. I’m here to suggest that sometimes they just might go together just fine. Maybe not as nicely as peanut butter and jelly. Perhaps not as great as apple pie and vanilla ice cream. And maybe not right...
Continue readingCan you teach an old dog new tricks? Midlife and learning new things
We are older and we have a young dog. When my husband signed us up for a two-day carting workshop (my dog, Niko the Landseer Newfoundland, my husband and me), I was hesitant. I didn’t see why my dog would embrace the strange skill of actually pulling a large cart. I thought things like:...
Continue readingSuddenly fearful about flying: Would you book a flight on September 11?
I had to book my flight. So I finally took care of the details. I made my flight arrangements for an upcoming work retreat in California. I was so excited. I love California and whenever I “have to go,” I’m over the moon! Except this time. As I was booking my flights, that little...
Continue readingThe case of the missing cheese grater—and midlife memory
The mini cheese grater is missing. Midlife memory? Or something else? It’s been missing for a week now and it’s driving my husband and me crazy. This cheese grater was not kept in the kitchen. It was the cutest little green MINI grater that’s used for things like garlic and spices. Or for grating...
Continue readingLosing my job and rediscovering myself: My two year dream-aversary
Not all anniversaries are created equal, like when it’s related to losing your job. I never thought about losing my job and anniversary in the same sentence. It seems like one of my most prevalent thoughts in my 50s is, “where does the time go?” It was two years ago this week that I...
Continue readingScary solo travel of the first born
Nothing like having kids travel on their own to put some hair on your chest. Now that I’m on the other side of 50, the “older mom” milestones are coming fast and furious! I’m the proud mom of three fabulously handsome and talented young men. I know we all say that! But seriously, they...
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