What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Regret-Proofing your Life: What “regret-proofing your life is all about. Why you should regret-proof your professional contribution. Why regret-proofing your relationship with yourself is just as important as other kinds of regret-proofing. Why you should regret-proof your relationships with others. How regret-proofing can help you combat the...
Continue readingEP #32: How to be More Accountable
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Be more Accountable in Midlife: How to be more accountable in mildife. What you can do to be more accountable to yourself. What accountability really feels like. What thoughts are useful for you when it comes to accountability. How you can create more accountability in...
Continue readingEp #29: How I Decided to Go Back to School at 55
What you’ll learn in this episode about going back to school and changing your career in midlife: Interview with Patty Shore, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Heritage Farmstead Museum in Plano, Texas What it’s like to go back to school at 55 years old, in midlife How your child’s high school graduation can...
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 readingEp #27: How to Worry Less
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why you worry. How the thought model works with worry. The definition of worry. Why you choose to think thoughts that create worry. Why worry feels so necessary. How worry is an indulgent emotion, like doubt, overwhelm and confusion. How worry keeps you stuck. How to supervise your...
Continue readingEp #26: How to have more confidence
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why many of you don’t have enough confidence. Why commitments to yourself can feel different than commitments to other people. Why it’s important to follow through on your word to yourself. How letting yourself down relates to lack of self-confidence. How learning to ride a unicycle is a...
Continue readingEp #20: How to Enjoy the Holidays Without Gaining Weight
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: How you’re deciding, in advance, to gain weight over the holidays. Why you gaining weight after the holidays is not a fact. Why we often overeat. The importance of understating that you need to eat slower How to master the skill of not overeating. Listen to the Full...
Continue readingHow my Midlife Passion Project got me into the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
You never really know what’s going to happen in life, especially midlife when you find time for your passion project. And, you never know what’s going to happen when you do what you love. 2017 was the year I learned these lessons loud and clear. I’ve been to New York City more lately than...
Continue readingEp #17: How to Conquer Procrastination in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Conquer Procrastination in Midlife: Why we’re so great at procrastinating in midlife. Why your belief that you work better under pressure may not be true. What drives all of your procrastination and how you can push through it. Three solid tips to help you procrastinate...
Continue readingEp #16: Surprising Lessons from Leaving a Long-Term Job in Midlife with Wendy Goodridge
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Leaving a Long-Term Job in Midlife: Wendy’s experience with leaving her career and the challenges she experienced along the way in midlife. What it took for Wendy to see that losing her job was something that happened for her rather than to her. The biggest epiphanies she...
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