Do you ever feel like life is passing you by? Are you constantly reacting to all that life throws at you? Do you subjugate your goals underneath the wishes of others around you? Are you frustrated at the way life has turned out?
These are things I often hear from women in midlife. For many of us, motherhood consumes many waking hours (and additional nighttime hours spent worrying). Relationships with our VIPs need tending to. Careers require much of us. Eventually we shift to caring for our aging parents.
Women are nurturers. We spend a good portion of our lives taking care of those around us. What beautiful service we have rendered. Reader: pat yourself on the back for a job well done. You are beautiful.
But when the children have grown and are needing us in different ways, when the career is growing stale or winding down, we soon find ourselves asking where the last 20 years went. Perhaps we feel like we missed something important that we wanted to do or see or accomplish with our lives.
Instead of waiting for life to happen for us, it’s time for us to start happening to our lives. It’s time for us to identify what we want the second half of life to look like, and then “go confidently in the direction of our dreams.” (Thank you, Ralph Waldo Emerson, for the quotable.)
This is about living with intentionality, not merely reacting to whatever is thrown at us. This is mapping out a future that lights us up, full of purpose and meaning and excellent health.
You, lady. I see you. Stop waiting. Start happening.
In the words of poet Mary Oliver, “Tell me. What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Tell me.
What about you?
What ways are you needing to nurture your personal wellness and purpose?
Do you know that I am here for you? If you’re interested in finding out more about how I support my clients to be their best, let’s chat. I love empowering women to rock life’s second half.
