Is it a pipe dream to want to live your best life in midlife (over 40, 50 or 60)? I mean, this stage of life can be a lot! Well, here is some good news. There IS something that can help you actually live your best life NOW - with a sense of peace and joy! The post How to live your best life in midlife appeared first on Midlife Pursuits ..read more

Don’t wait until retirement, enjoy your life now If you’re in midlife and find yourself dreaming of retirement more than enjoying your current life, you’re not alone. Many of us around the ages of 45-55 feel overwhelmed by all of our responsibilities, are tired of going to the same job day in and day out, and struggle with the “blahs.”  It’s no wonder we’re always saying, “I can’t wait to retire.”  When we’re just going through the motions, life can seem uneventful and boring. We can get into a rut and think “same shit, different day.”  But what if you didn’t have to wait until ..read more

Mellowing out: how to be healthier in your 50s & beyond Our bodies are aging without a doubt, but if we can make a few small changes to increase our chances of being healthier in our 50s and beyond AND decrease our odds of contracting diseases, it’s definitely worth looking into! One way we can be healthier overall in our 50s (midlife and beyond) is to become less reactive to things that normally trigger us.  We often hear that people mellow out with age and stop caring so much about things that don’t really matter. But, do we really? Do we let things roll off of our backs most of the ..read more

Stop Spending Time on Things that Don’t Matter: Strengthen Your Awareness Muscle Life can throw us a lot of curve balls and when we get to midlife, we don’t have the time to spend thinking about things that really don’t matter. But, it’s all too easy for lots of stuff to clutter our minds and keep us from concentrating on what’s truly important. We want to make the most of midlife (and the rest of our life) so that means investing our time in activities that align with our desires and values.  Yes, a lot of our time is spent doing things we HAVE to do, but the rest of the time? It’s OUR t ..read more

Is it worth it to go after your goals? The easier way to accomplish anything If you’re in midlife and you are ready to “make the most of your second half,” then you might have some big goals – things you really want to do! So, you start planning. And then you look at your goals and think, “ugh, this is going to be hard. It’s going to take a lot from me to accomplish this thing or have this dream of mine become a reality.” And you can get really overwhelmed. We might even think – Is it even worth it to go after my goals and dreams if I’m just going to be more stressed? Well, we definitely don’t ..read more

Stop going through the motions and live more intentionally in midlife Do you feel like you’ve just been going through the motions? Almost like you just don’t really have a direction in life. For a lot of us, it goes like this: Wake up tired, rush around, take care of things, get exhausted, overwhelmed and stressed, become irritable, go to bed and sleep restlessly.  And, a lot of times, we are staying busy, because, well, what else is there to do? If we didn’t stay busy, what would we do? For many years, this was my life.  Later, I realized that what I was doing was mostly numbing or ..read more

Want to beat overwhelm & increase your energy? Ask for help If you’ve been feeling extra grouchy, more stressed than usual, more tired or unproductive – hmmm – I wonder if you might be carrying too much on your shoulders. (Hint – probably yes.) One of the reasons that we get overwhelmed and lack energy is because we don’t ask for help. Not asking for help can also cause a lot of yucky thoughts and feelings.  Trying to do it all means we don’t have the energy or time to spend on things that matter to us, things that are good for us, and things that make us happy! We actually waste so m ..read more

How to fall back in love with your life When was the last time that you thought, “I love my life”? Do you look at people who seem to love their lives and think, “damn, I wish that was me”?  Well well well….I have some news for you. You TOO can be one of those people! You CAN love your life. I know, a few years ago, I would have said, “sure, whatever.” As time went by and I was approaching 50, I worried about the empty nest and retirement and running out of time to do things I had always wanted to do. It was during this period of time that I started learning about mindfulness and although ..read more

Your goals are important: don’t sabotage them by comparing yourself with others Are you tired of the struggle to stop comparing yourself to others? Here we are at the start of a new year and oftentimes we are making resolutions or setting new goals for ourselves. But we can get stuck in some of those same patterns that have played out in our lives…including comparing our progress with others’.  Well, I’m here to remind you that this is not gonna help you reach your goals. And, you can wave goodbye to the struggle, because I have some things for you that WILL HELP. Keep reading for super s ..read more

Midlife Answers: How to stop letting life pass you by Are you tired of feeling like life is just passing you by? OR that life is happening to you and you don’t really have any control? Or maybe you just think that making any changes would be too hard – take too much energy, time, or money… Well, today we’re gonna figure out how to stop letting life pass us by! Read on and find out how I stopped letting life “happen” and how you can live your second half of life more intentionally! Just know that you DO have control of your own life, your own future! And, it’s not something that is reserved for ..read more