Midlife Mastery Journal

However, contrary to a lot of people’s belief, changes on the outside seldom create genuine change on the inside. That’s why you can’t buy your way to happiness, or eat your way, or pleasure your way, or even work your way there. Your midlife transition invites you to do the inside work first and, amazingly, the outside has a way of catching up with it.

The truth is that, when it comes to change, together we can do what we cannot do alone.

Change yourself, and everything in your life will change. It seems so simple, but so few people are willing or able to actually do it. You have the choice; you have the chance. It’s your life; you can make of it what you want.

The realities of midlife — memory lapses, menopause and andropause, aging features, career change, relationship issues — are never easy to face or to deal with. That’s why so many of us choose not to.

At some point, there exists a watershed point between the courage to work for change and the serenity to accept the world as it is. The Wisdom Point reveals itself in the continuum between commitment and insanity: between doing what you can and doing the same thing over and over again with the same results.