Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of appearing on Love Your Path Radio with Nancy Brook, author of Cycling, Wine, and Men: A Midlife Tour de France.
In life, it’s easy to get on the wrong path or get sidetracked, or even get run off the road. Maybe you reluctantly agreed to follow in your father’s footsteps and become a doctor, or you had dreams of being a writer until an English teacher scoffed at your talents. And now here you are, eager for new challenges or revisiting old ones, yet you find yourself stalled with excuses. When you are in midlife you might be thinking, “Wow, how can I make a change? I already have 40 or 50 years invested in this one path”. “Can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” “I’m too old to start over.” “It’s too late.” “Oh, I could never do that.” “I’ve been doing this for so long, why quit now?”
You are not alone. If you are more than one of the 84 million born in the US between 1946 and 1964, of course known as the baby boomers, and you have reached middle age, you may be looking for a new life, to begin again and create the choices that you want.
I say midlife is the time to turn things around. A U-turn is when a vehicle goes 180 degrees into the opposite direction of its previous path. Likewise, a YOU-turn is a complete reversal in opinion, action or policy. When you embrace a YOU-turn into your life, you set in motion a self-fulfilling prophecy of empowerment and possibilities.
To listen to the full interview click here!
