MAKING MIDLIFE YOUR BEST LIFE #2 (FAMILY)
Saturday, 27 June 2015
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| the midlife empty nesters |
THE BENEFITS OF MIDLIFE
As I mentioned in last week's post, I am not interested in complaining about the advent of middle age and all the unkind changes it brings with it. Instead, I am discovering that it is all to do with how you look at this stage of life. There are so many benefits to reaching middle age.
MAKING THE BEST OF MIDLIFE #1 (WORK)
Friday, 26 June 2015
IT'S NOT YOUR AGE, IT'S YOUR ATTITUDE
For the last few years I have been one of those women who bemoaned the advent of middle age and all the unkind changes it brings with it. But what I am discovering is that it has nothing to do with my age and everything to do with my attitude!
JOINING THE JIGSAW PIECES OF A NEW JOB
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
NEW HORIZONS
I have undergone an amazing transition in the last few weeks. A month ago I was a guru in my field. I knew every dentist and dental specialist in my vicinity. I knew who was good, who was great and who was indifferent. I knew the terminology, the appointment types, the item numbers and the costings and I could multi task several things at once. If you needed a goddess of all things dental I would have been a candidate for the job. Then I got bored.......STARTING A FACEBOOK PAGE FOR MY BLOG
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
WHY A BUSINESS PAGE?
As the next step in my blogging journey, I thought I would start a Facebook page for my blog. It seems like everyone else has one and I only have my personal page that is for my family and friends' updates. I really don't like the overlap of my personal life with my blogging life - they are really two separate worlds.MARCHING TO THE BEAT OF DIFFERENT DRUMS
Saturday, 20 June 2015
OPPOSITES ATTRACT
I met my husband when I was 20 years old and he was 21. Full of the fresh flush of youth and all the optimism that goes with it, we got married less than 12 months later and launched into happily ever after. Or so it would seem...What the fine print in the fairy tales didn't mention is that, while opposites attract and compliment each other, they can also drive each other stir crazy at times!TRUSTING GOD TO GUIDE YOUR MOUTH
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
LIVING YOUR FAITH CAN BE VERY SIMPLE
Sometimes I can take my faith way too seriously and it's quotes like this one:
Lord please keep your arm around my shoulder, and your hand over my mouth...
that remind me to smile and lighten up a little. I like the idea that authentic faith is about trusting God to stand shoulder to shoulder with me but also asking him to shut me up when my mouth gets ahead of my brain.
KISSING FROGS - I HAVE A NEW JOB!
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
FROG KISSING
I'm so excited - frog kissing has paid off! After being first runner up at my last job interview, I took the plunge and kept applying for jobs that looked interesting. I hadn't reached the borderlines of desperation so I was still being fairly choosy about what I wanted to do - not ready for shelf stacking at the supermarket just yet.....
JUMPING INTO A MAKEOVER CHALLENGE
Saturday, 13 June 2015
THERE'S SO MUCH STILL TO LEARN
The older I get, the more I realize that there is so much that I don't know. There are a million (gazillion) different internet processes and applications that I am totally unaware of. Blogging is a "whole new world" (thanks Aladdin) and I am just scraping the surface.
REST AND REFRESHMENT
Friday, 12 June 2015
TAKE TIME TO REST AND REVIVE
One thing I am learning as I take time out from the workforce is that it is okay to rest and revitalize. When you are continually busy on the treadmill of life you get out of practice at being still and letting life happen at its own pace.
PERMISSION TO BE HAPPY
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
WHEN IT'S HARD TO BE HAPPY
I don't know if it is a leftover from my 'oldest child' childhood or whether there is just something missing in my general makeup, but I have trouble giving myself permission to be happy.
WHO OR WHAT AT DO I WANT TO BE?
Friday, 5 June 2015
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| Just like my teenage self - I have no idea! |
WHERE TO FROM HERE?
I've been busy leading my new life of laid back leisure and it's given me time to think about how I want to spend the next stage of my life. And the resounding response I have each time I give it serious thought is "I have NO idea"!
A TIME OF TRANSITION
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
MY SUN SETS TO RISE AGAIN
I was perusing tumblr the other day and I saw this little quote:
my sun sets to rise again
~ from Robert Browning.
It caught my eye because it applies to this time in my life as I transition from one stage of life to another - not bad seeing he wrote it in 1846!
CRUISING AND MUSING
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
CRUISING AND MUSING
As I mentioned in a post a while back, my reward to myself for being brave enough to quit my job was buying a bicycle. It's been really fun getting out and about, but as I was cruising along today I thought that riding a bike is a bit like navigating life.
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