Do you catch yourself thinking it’s finally your time in midlife? Do you even know what I mean by that? I wonder. I want you to wonder. Just for a few seconds. YOUR TIME means taking time and prioritizing your personal priorities. You might think of it as SELF-CARE. You might think of it...
Continue readingEP #119: Thinking about Time in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why it’s so common to think about running out of time in midlife. Why you need to be aware of how you’re thinking about life passing you by. How you can manage your mind about the way you think about time. How you can learn to “catch” your...
Continue readingEP #44: When You’re Too Busy
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why it’s common in midlife to feel too busy. Why feeling too busy is actually caused by the way you think about time. How feeling too busy can create unnecessary stress. How feeling too busy to cut a mango helped illuminate a problem with priorities. Why feeling too...
Continue readingWhy Midlife is the Perfect Time to Regret-Proof Your Life!
I think that your midlife is actually the best time to regret proof your life. Why? Because you’re older and wiser. Simple as that. Here’s what I mean by regret-proofing. Regret-proofing is what you can do ON PURPOSE to make sure that you don’t have regrets in your life. See what I mean? As women...
Continue readingEp #28: When It’s Time To Grow
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: How you know it’s time to grow. Why you resist growing. What to do when you think it’s too hard to change. How your thoughts can keep you stuck. Why it’s common to feel stuck in midlife. How embracing discomfort can help you grow. Three amazing reasons why...
Continue readingStart here to regret-proof your life
It’s definitely time to regret-proof if you’re somewhere between 40 and 60 years old. Welcome to midlife, the land of time flying by. At record speed. Before you know it. Right before your very eyes. I mean, really, can you believe you’re as old as you are? I don’t feel my age and I...
Continue readingThe surprising truth about being too busy
Feel too busy? Being too busy. How often does this come out of your mouth? I noticed a few things about this thing we call “busy” when I was in my backyard recently. I was keenly aware of a particularly loud airplane. I wondered if there’s always been airplane noise like that or not....
Continue readingHow often do you think about what you want?
Did you ever wonder how you spend your “thinking time” on any given day? The first time I was asked to track time and do a time audit was at my first professional job as a tobacco use health educator in a health department. We needed to think about and tally up the time...
Continue readingVacations WITHOUT kids: How I forgot how to hold my husband’s hand and other midlife observations
It took years for us to finally take a vacation without kids. We loved to go camping in our pop-up tent trailer when the kids were little. My friends used to joke, “if the trailer is a rockin’, don’t come a knockin.” Truth be told, our trailer was stationary. No rockin’ going on. Just...
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...
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