The Problem With Side Hustles
Side Hustle It’s the buzzword of our times. You’ve noticed it too? You can find books on it. Sites devoted to it. There’s a lot to be said about it. Side hustles aren’t part time jobs. They don’t include working overtime, or even driving for Uber on the weekends. A...
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Why The American Dream Job Is Changing For Us 40 and 50 Year Olds
We’re always dreaming. The perfect job. The perfect house. The perfect car. The perfect spouse. The perfect family. The perfect life. The problem is at midlife, we suddenly wake up to the fact that our plans aren’t matching our dreams. We expected better. We...
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How You Can Change “All Of A Sudden”
I went over to a mentor’s website a few days ago. I’ve followed her for years. I’ve purchased her books. I’ve taken a few classes from her. She is a person who fueled my love of travel to what it is today. She was one of three who motivated me to sell my forever...
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5 Scary Things About Reinvention and 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be Scared Of Them
Have you ever had the realization of where you are in life hit you over the head? I had it happen to me again recently. My daughter was packing up, getting ready to fly 7,300 miles from home to live for a year. This was it. She’s out of college, ready to take on the...
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My Secrets To Manifest A Truly Blissful Lifestyle
You’ve heard the adage: The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again, and expecting different results. Yet that’s what most of us do. We get up, eat the same breakfast. Go to work, do the same jobs. Get home, eat the same dinners, over and...
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New Release: The Successful Woman in Midlife is Here!
I'm excited to be releasing my third nonfiction book The Successful Woman in Midlife today! When I first started up Vision Of Success as a guide to helping women answer the question "What's Next?" I had no idea the direction I would go. I knew I was going...
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Screw The Midlife Crisis – I Just Want A Better Life
I chatted with a woman in a coffee shop the other day. I could see the frustration in her face. I’ve spent my entire adult life for everybody else. I married out of college, took care of my husband, started a family and took care of the kids. When my parents got sick,...
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Why We Deserve To Invest Our Reinvention Like Women
I have a masters degree in finance. When I tell people that, they automatically assume I’m great at investing. Nothing can be further from the truth. I fell into my degree by chance. I already had a business degree, so my advisor said an MBA was redundant. I liked a...
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How Empty Nest and Reinvention Meet All Over Again
When my daughter was in fifth grade, the fifth-grade trip was a right of passage. The class boarded a bus and headed down to Mesa Verde National Park for a week of science projects and fun. The morning they left, all the parents gathered around. We placed their bags...
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Forget Passion – Just Do Something
I was sitting, having tea with my daughter. After graduating from college, she’d spent several weeks looking for a job. She was frustrated. She was irritated. She was lost. Her head fell to her hands as she said: I have no idea what I’m passionate about. Where do I go...
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