Let’s wake up every day and let’s be on fire about a contribution that we’re making to a broader audience. ~ Aleta Norris

What’s your purpose? Yes, it’s a heavy question–one most of us grapple with often. But we can start to find our purpose once we look beyond ourselves.

Aleta Norris, best-selling author of Women Who Spark and Women Who Spark After 50, joins the Brilliantly Resilient podcast to share her wisdom about how to live happy, successful lives when our life journey doesn’t always match the visions of our younger selves.

Despite experiencing hardships and challenges, Aleta assures women that life, especially in its second half, can contain joy, opportunity, and purpose, provided we learn to look outside of our own circumstances and recognize that good and bad can co-exist. With a process-oriented and pragmatic system, Aleta guides women towards vitality and fulfillment, urging us all to be “fully used up” by the end of our journeys.

Here at Brilliantly Resilient, we believe that service to others can open the door to discovering one’s purpose and brilliance. Once we tap into our resilience to navigate our challenges and define our values, we not only learn what’s most important to us, but we uncover ways we can contribute to the greater good, giving our lives meaning.

Tune in for more of Aleta’s wisdom and be sure to listen for these additional bits of brilliance:

• When the yucky stuff hasn’t happened yet, we spend time focusing only on ourselves. Those of us who reach that crappy part in our lives are blessed, because that’s the wake-up call.

• Our difficulties are our gift if we decide to make them our gift.

• Look at your life in decades. The 30’s and 40’s are very difficult decades. The messy middle. But it’s not always going to be like that. Accept it for what it is but remember there is so much ahead.

• You can be good enough at something. You don’t have to be great. I’m a good enough mom.

• Think about the things you love without having to turn it into a decision right away.

Let’s be Brilliantly Resilient together!

XO,

Mary Fran & Kristin