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If you like, check out the past issues of Midlife Discovery below.
Last month’s edition of Midlife Discovery focused on creating a nurturing environment (i.e. a cocoon) to protect the profound, internal restructuring of the midlife metamorphosis. As promised, this month’s edition continues that theme by suggesting ways to establish this environment in the places you inhabit, and with the people around you. Places – How To [...]
The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. – Edwin Way Teale To celebrate this glorious month, I’m offering 25% off my Journaling eCourse, which usually sells for $47.00. For the month of May only, you’ll be able to purchase “Reinvent Your Life ~ Write Now” for $35.00. If you [...]
“You must have chaos within you to birth a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzche. Chaos inevitably accompanies a metamorphosis because the old form must be destroyed before a new form can arise. Before the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it dissolves into a formless goo within the chrysalis. So when your familiar world begins to fade [...]
I suspect you may already know this secret for well-being at midlife. Research about our personal welfare often validates what we understand intuitively. A recent study conducted by Dr. Noriko Cable, a senior research fellow at University College, London, seems to do just that. The abstract of her article in The Journal of Epidemiology and [...]
In these middle years, as you ponder how to manifest a more rewarding future, have you found yourself examining your past? Sorting through your life in this way enables you to make decisions about what you want to keep and what you want to throw away going forward. Whenever I hear a client describe time [...]
How are those New Year’s resolutions coming along? If you’re like one friend of mine, the answer is “beautifully!” But if you’re like some folks at my gym, the answer is “not so well!” January usually finds our exercise room packed, so you have to wait to get on a treadmill. By March there’s always [...]
2013 is almost upon us – time to make resolutions, according to tradition! May I suggest a slightly different approach for setting your annual goals? This year, instead of adding a new enterprise to your already busy life, why not consider cutting out some activity? Time is a precious commodity in our complicated world. Time [...]
A recent article in Forbes magazine by Deborah Jacobs posits three key questions that occur in every job interview. My experience (both from interviewing job applicants and being interviewed for jobs) validates her queries as the golden nuggets of these challenging conversations 1. Can you do the job? 2. Will you love the job? 3. [...]
Last week I discovered these ten signs of a midlife crisis posted months ago in the Huffington Post. I invite you to check out each symptom with an eye to determining if it applies to you. Here’s the list for your consideration. 1. A growing sense of regret over unattained goals. Yes__ No__ 2. New [...]
Experts advise keeping a journal at midlife as a way of handling the stress of those middle years. It’s a perfect way to vent (no harm-no foul). Plus venting can be incredibly cathartic and even healing as you work through your anger and other feelings that lurk beneath that anger. In addition, journaling provides the [...]