One of the primary reasons that people do not go after whatever it is that they want for the second half of their lives is because they are burned out. Which is ironic, given that many people would say that they want something different for the second half of their lives because they are burned out. 

But burnout is actually a pretty insidious impediment to change.  Among other things, it can create both fear and learned helplessness, neither of which will serve you on a journey of personal growth.  

For many people, the first step to addressing what they want for the second half of their lives is first addressing their burnout where they are today. Today we will get clear on what burnout actually is, how it can be a sneaky block to your next chapter, and what to do to begin to get a hold of it.

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On this episode, we’re going to talk about how to set a goal for 2023 and make sure that you achieve it. I can’t wait to see what you do.  And my favorite part of this exercise, by the way, is thinking about who you need to become in order to achieve your goal.  

I’ve created a whole workbook for you for this episode.  This is a great resource and you do not want to miss it.  Grab yours here.

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On this episode, we’ll talk about why you might wish to carve out some time just for you to review and close out 2022.

This is an exercise, if you will, in metacognition. It’s always fun, or at least interesting, to look back on the events of the year, but I would encourage you to look not only at the events of 2022 but to think back and reflect on how you showed up for those events, what they mean for you today, what you learned, and how you changed.

It’s an opportunity to consolidate your learning. So often we feel like our lives are too busy to just sit down and think and reflect. But we lose a lot of our own growth when we don’t take the time to really give it some airtime in our own mind. I would really encourage you to consider giving yourself the gift of airtime this time of year.

In this episode, I'll provide you with questions to consider as you review 2022. We've got the show notes and questions for you here.

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If this kind of work gets your juices flowing and you would like to dig in deeper and invest time in discovering what you want for the second half of your life, you may be a candidate for one of the 1:1 coaching packages that I am opening in January 2023.

Coaching one-on-one with me offers you the opportunity to truly invest in yourself and the creation of the second half of your life.

We’ll uncover how you are keeping yourself stuck.

We’ll look at patterns that you have that are creating burnout and overwhelm and what to do about them so that you even have the energy to think meaningfully about your life.

We’ll take a look at the story that you tell about your life and see where it is serving you and where it is not - and where you want to, we’ll re-write it together.

We’ll clean all of the junk out of the way so that you can get clear about what it is you want for the second half of your life. We can’t go after goals that we don’t know we have. We’re going to figure out what those things that you really want are.

I’m only offering a few of these 1:1 coaching slots - all of them are going to be a weekend afternoon - 24 sessions over the course of six months. If this sounds like exactly what you need to wake up to your life - let’s get to work. Go to my website to schedule a discovery call. I have slots available next week for discovery calls if you are listening in real time. If those don’t work for you, email me at [email protected] and we’ll find a time that does.

How often do you take time for reflection and celebration?

Most of us are terrible at celebrating ourselves.  Holidays? Birthdays?  Sure…but celebrating ourselves?  Things we’ve done or achieved?  No.

What about celebrating or spending time noticing progress? Good things, Achievement of a goal? A job well done? When you showed up the way that you wanted to - mostly or even some. When you figured something out? When you caught yourself with your hand in the potato chip bag as you were eating mindlessly instead of later?

Or are you just on to the next thing...not really ever stepping out of that striving energy? 

But what if celebration is actually important?  Not necessarily the party-planning type of celebration but what if stopping to recognize and acknowledge the good and progress, steps on the right direction and small wins is really a helpful way for me to tune my brain toward the positive?  To get a more realistic picture of progress on a project or goals or just something that I’m trying to do? What if celebrating is actually a tool that I can use to make myself more likely to achieve my goals or do the thing?

Today I am offering you some reasons why you might want to consider adding a bit more celebration into your life.

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We often talk on this show about how to have a Big Job and a Big Life.  Today, we’re going to talk about having a Big Job and Big Holidays.  

For many high-achievers, what we experience this time of year is not only the demands of family and Christmas parties and gifts and decorating, but also year-end at our places of business.  Maybe your organization has a Board Meeting in December, the insanity.  Perhaps you have a job that requires one last push for the year between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Maybe you work for yourself and it’s all on the line this time of year. Many professionals experience an escalation in their responsibilities around the holidays so they are challenging by both increasing personal demands and increasing professional demands.

The good news is that the same strategies that you might use to survive the chaos of year end at your business will also set you up for success to survive the personal demands for your time. 

On this episode, we’re going to discuss a series of strategies and ways of thinking that will set you up for success this December - whatever the personal and professional demands on you might be.  You can have a Big Job and a Big Life that includes Big Holidays.

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Do you feel stuck?  I have felt stuck.  That’s how a lot of my clients describe themselves.  Stuck in situations that are outside of their control.  No exit in sight.  

But do you know that you also keep yourself stuck?  One of the primary functions of our brains is to keep us safe. And our brains tend to view change or new things or a new adventure or opportunity - as unsafe.  Better to stay here, even if we’re unhappy, because we know the lay of the land. Better the known disappointment than the unknown possibility.

Today, I’m going to share with you five ways that we conspire to keep ourselves stuck.  How we get in our own way when it comes to pursuing our dreams for what we want and especially what we want for the second half of our lives.  

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On today’s short-and-sweet episode, where I provide you with a tool that you can use today to improve your life or feel better in some way, I’m going to suggest to you that you Just Stop. 

Just STOP doing it.  

We’ve been hearing “just do it” for decades, but today I’m saying “Just STOP doing it.” 

I would offer to you that an important way to cull your to-do list at work and at home, is to bring awareness to why you are doing the things that are on it.  And determining whether those why’s align with your overall goals, especially if you are seeking to reduce burnout and overwhelm in your life. 

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The world that we live in today is a mixture of incredible, staggering beauty and gut-wrenching evil and pain.

It has both.

So do our lives.  

So much of our unhappiness is caused by thinking that we should be happy all of the time.

So what if you decided that life was going to be a roughly 50/50 mix of good and bad most of the time?

On today’s show, I’m going to tell you why thinking about life as a mixed bag - as 50/50 - might be a useful thought experiment for you to try and how to do it. 

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On today’s episode, I’m going to share with you why that stern voice that you use to keep yourself moving, going, pressing forward isn’t doing you any favors and is actually, in fact, making things harder for you.  

Then I’m going to introduce you to an alternative approach and a brief exercise where you can begin to implement this alternative approach for yourself.  

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I would like to bring a little more clarity to the idea of making change in our lives.  When I initially thought about what I wanted to do with this podcast, I wanted the change that I spoke about to encompass both changes such as changing careers, changing the way that you live your life (maybe working part time or in a full-time remote context, things like minimalism, tiny houses, and vanlife), and changing the way that you see the world.  

But what I don’t want to do is suggest that the solution to the problem is in changing your external world.  

In reality, the change that I want to help you create is within you first and foremost.  

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