Midlife Transition

Midlife Transition: The importance of self-love

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I received this this morning, and thought of everyone in mid-life who needs to experience more self-love – starting with me! It’s about a new movie -Doors Opening – the message is from Cheryl Richardson…

I’ve just finished the “I Can Do It” conference here in Toronto and, before I go to bed, I wanted to share some of my notes with you from an extraordinary documentary that was shown at lunch today. The movie was called, Doors Opening, and it’s the story of the work Louise Hay did with men Continue reading “Midlife Transition: The importance of self-love” →

Midlife Transition – From Fate to Destiny

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I received this message today from Guru Singh and I think it is a perfect description of the midlife transition process… and an awesome way to understand how to avoid crisis…. More on this to come…

Where you are actually located right now in this life is what is referred to as your fate
. . . the actual conditions and consciousness and emotions and thoughts
of this very accurate — yet un-progressed and un-regressed — moment.

Your destination in this life . . . the reality of who you Continue reading “Midlife Transition – From Fate to Destiny” →

Midlife Transition: Crisis or Opportunity?

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Midlife Crisis Or Midlife Opportunity?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Colin_Hiles]Colin Hiles

During middle years we can find ourselves experiencing five different ‘wake up’ calls. Each one has the potential to provide its own ‘crisis’.

The five crisis of mid-life are:

1. Cultural
2. Health
3. Relationship
4. Financial/Career
5. Existential

Generally, I refer to midlife as the range from 35 to 60 years, although these life-changing crises can occur before or after these ages. And whilst I’ll explain these crises individually for ease of understanding, it’s worth remembering that they rarely work in isolation. There’s more of an interdependent relationship between them than you might at first realise.

For example, Continue reading “Midlife Transition: Crisis or Opportunity?” →

Follow Your SOUL to Avoid Midlife Crisis

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‘Tis the Set of the Sail — or — One Ship Sails East

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1916

But to every mind there openeth,
A way, and way, and away,
A high soul climbs the highway,
And the low soul gropes the low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.

But to every man there openeth,
A high way and a low,
And every mind decideth,
The way his soul shall go.

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
‘Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
‘Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

Midlife Transition : 5 great books to read

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1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre was the first novel that really moved me and surprised me as a woman. I think this is true for a lot of female readers. Jane Eyre is told from the point of view of a 12-year-old girl in a dreadful situation. She’s an orphan who is adopted by a cruel bunch of people and sent to a horrible boarding school. So it’s about travail, but more importantly, it’s about coming through travail. Jane is a very brave, bold, upstanding girl who always seems able to defend herself, even in terrible situations.

What this book meant to me was that Continue reading “Midlife Transition : 5 great books to read” →