Stop Spending Time on Things that Don’t Matter: Strengthen Your Awareness Muscle Life can throw us a lot of curve balls and when we get to midlife, we don’t have the time to spend thinking about things that really don’t matter. But, it’s all too easy for lots of stuff to clutter our minds and keep us from concentrating on what’s truly important. We want to make the most of midlife (and the rest of our life) so that means investing our time in activities that align with our desires and values.  Yes, a lot of our time is spent doing things we HAVE to do, but the rest of the time? It’s OUR t ..read more

Is it worth it to go after your goals? The easier way to accomplish anything If you’re in midlife and you are ready to “make the most of your second half,” then you might have some big goals – things you really want to do! So, you start planning. And then you look at your goals and think, “ugh, this is going to be hard. It’s going to take a lot from me to accomplish this thing or have this dream of mine become a reality.” And you can get really overwhelmed. We might even think – Is it even worth it to go after my goals and dreams if I’m just going to be more stressed? Well, we definitely don’t ..read more

Stop going through the motions and live more intentionally in midlife Do you feel like you’ve just been going through the motions? Almost like you just don’t really have a direction in life. For a lot of us, it goes like this: Wake up tired, rush around, take care of things, get exhausted, overwhelmed and stressed, become irritable, go to bed and sleep restlessly.  And, a lot of times, we are staying busy, because, well, what else is there to do? If we didn’t stay busy, what would we do? For many years, this was my life.  Later, I realized that what I was doing was mostly numbing or ..read more

Want to beat overwhelm & increase your energy? Ask for help If you’ve been feeling extra grouchy, more stressed than usual, more tired or unproductive – hmmm – I wonder if you might be carrying too much on your shoulders. (Hint – probably yes.) One of the reasons that we get overwhelmed and lack energy is because we don’t ask for help. Not asking for help can also cause a lot of yucky thoughts and feelings.  Trying to do it all means we don’t have the energy or time to spend on things that matter to us, things that are good for us, and things that make us happy! We actually waste so m ..read more

How to fall back in love with your life When was the last time that you thought, “I love my life”? Do you look at people who seem to love their lives and think, “damn, I wish that was me”?  Well well well….I have some news for you. You TOO can be one of those people! You CAN love your life. I know, a few years ago, I would have said, “sure, whatever.” As time went by and I was approaching 50, I worried about the empty nest and retirement and running out of time to do things I had always wanted to do. It was during this period of time that I started learning about mindfulness and although ..read more

Your goals are important: don’t sabotage them by comparing yourself with others Are you tired of the struggle to stop comparing yourself to others? Here we are at the start of a new year and oftentimes we are making resolutions or setting new goals for ourselves. But we can get stuck in some of those same patterns that have played out in our lives…including comparing our progress with others’.  Well, I’m here to remind you that this is not gonna help you reach your goals. And, you can wave goodbye to the struggle, because I have some things for you that WILL HELP. Keep reading for super s ..read more

Midlife Answers: How to stop letting life pass you by Are you tired of feeling like life is just passing you by? OR that life is happening to you and you don’t really have any control? Or maybe you just think that making any changes would be too hard – take too much energy, time, or money… Well, today we’re gonna figure out how to stop letting life pass us by! Read on and find out how I stopped letting life “happen” and how you can live your second half of life more intentionally! Just know that you DO have control of your own life, your own future! And, it’s not something that is reserved for ..read more

The Best Planner for Women in Midlife Ready to make some changes or start fresh? A brand new shiny planner can help, right? It always sounds like a good idea to get a new planner and make some real plans to meet your goals, get organized, and stay on task. And, with so much going on in our lives, it’s hard to keep track of everything. So, yes, we definitely need a planner in midlife! But WHAT IS the best planner for women in midlife? Plus, considering the fact that there are a lot of days when we walk into a room only to forget what we walked in there for… and that we kinda need to write every ..read more

How to prevent having regrets when you get to the end of your life Do you sometimes wonder how to prevent having regrets when you get to the end of your life? I was listening to a guided meditation recently, which was really just some thought provoking questions to ponder. One of them was, “What would your older and wiser self tell your current self to do right now?”  My mind went to “what should I be doing so that I don’t have any regrets when I’m at the end of my life?”  And, my focus was on that old Nike slogan (or is it still their slogan?) – Just do it! This slogan is a little s ..read more

Stop going through the motions and live more intentionally in midlife Do you feel like you’ve just been going through the motions? Almost like you just don’t really have a direction in life. For a lot of us, it goes like this: Wake up tired, rush around, take care of things, get exhausted, overwhelmed and stressed, become irritable, go to bed and sleep restlessly.  And, a lot of times, we are staying busy, because, well, what else is there to do? If we didn’t stay busy, what would we do? For many years, this was my life.  Later, I realized that what I was doing was mostly numbing or ..read more