![]() ![]() A rebranding from who I was for the first half of my career into who I’ll be and what will sustain me for the rest of my life. Instead of falling into the throes of a midlife crisis, I chose to make a deliberate midlife transformation. ![]() It was too fearful, too easily swayed by advisors who told me to stay the course and well-intentioned friends who suggested maybe I was having a midlife crisis and wouldn’t a week at a spa suffice? It’s as if we have an inner narrator voicing over our most doubting and critical of thoughts and using them as guideposts for our life.Īll that bullsh*t kept me from pursuing things I was interested in and that felt right to me, that made my heart sing. Who the hell do I think I am? T his is nuts! Don’t do that - that’s scary! And unknown! And might go wrong! You’re not good enough! If you feed the voice it grows louder, bolder. And I’ve invested all this time already, I have to stick with it. But I wasn’t able to begin until I finally got sick of my own bullsh*t.Īll the reasons why I couldn’t do something.Īnd… this will never happen anyway. I had known for some time that I was due a transformation. What do you do when Work No Longer Works? You pour a cup of coffee and you power through. ![]() My body broke down.īut stubbornly, I held on. I was working harder but enjoying it less. My crap didn’t catch up to me until a year later, when I felt I was stepping into it, again and again. Gilbert tweeted this sentiment in 2014: “I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit.” “I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit.” It belongs to writer Elizabeth Gilbert, who followed her passion around the world, wrote a memoir about her travels (“Eat, Pray, Love”), among other works, and now serves as inspiration for other creative types. Something interesting happened that year. Now that I have your attention, let me tell you about the year I made a pivotal change in my life and why. Did I start this post with an illustration of 18 mounds of poop? ![]()
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