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Midlife Ambition

Midlife Fork In The Road?
Midlife Fork In The Road?

Isn’t that what leads us to the proverbial midlife crisis?

Ambition.  Can’t live with it.  Can’t live without it.

Or can we?  Live without it, I mean.

And maybe not live without it, but alter the course of our ambition.

I mean, alter it from selfish to selfless.

And by selfish, I don’t mean to say it’s wrong to be professionally ambitious.

And by selfless, I don’t mean we should sell all our belongs and live with just the shirt on our back.

But there is this rare opportunity, at it’s peak in mid life, that we can really get serious about where we currently are and where we ultimately want to end up.

Most likely, at midlife, these are two diametrically opposed paths.

Changing Direction In Midlife

Do You Have The Guts To Change Direction?
Do You Have The Guts To Change Direction?

When do we pursue change?

When do we resist change?

Mostly, in our humanness, we resist it. We are basically weak, fearful creatures.  And yet we know, instinctively, that change is the only constant.

If you want midlife peace, you must be willing to earn it. Earning it requires changing.

To read, “Changing Direction In Life”, by Dr Sheri Rosenthal, click here.

There is peace in our midlife journey, and peace in our realization that midlife change is good, even if it scares us to death.

Surprising Jimmy Stewart Midlife Poem

Thank you for visiting Mid Life Celebration. I know most of you are insanely busy. How? Because I’m one of you. It’s also easy to predict that most of you will not have time to click on this video, especially if you’re reading from a handheld device.

So this is for the others. The few. The ones who know full well that life is hard and that carving out time has to be some one’s responsibility.

Did you watch the sunset last night? Or the sunrise this morning?

Time marches on. This is a beautiful story. Just like last night’s sunset. But you really have no idea do you?

Maybe Everyone Else Is Wrong

Lane 8, Impossible?
Lane 8, Impossible?

“When everybody tells you that you are being idealistic or impractical, consider the possibility that everybody could be wrong about what is right for you.” — Gilbert Kaplan