Midlife Mastery Journal

Today, as you stand at the crossroads of your own midlife transition, may that gift of God teach you, too, to remember who you really are in the larger scheme of things and, as the invulnerable spirit that you yourself are, to remember that nothing and nobody can really hurt you (without your permission). The spirit of the bold midlife transition is a spirit of acceptance, a spirit of humility, and a spirit of forgiveness. Embrace it: it’s your birthright!

Providing care for aging parents will necessarily involve making some very difficult choices. The earlier and more openly you’re able to face those choices, the more choices there will be.

When you make a decision, you subconsciously engage your core values. That suggests that, if you want to determine what your core values really are, you should look at the decisions you’ve made over the past week or so and ask yourself what reasons you had for making each of them. If you can be honest about it, your collected reasoning will show you what’s really important to you (your values).

Outside forces are seldom enough to shatter the ‘American Dream’. No, it’s what’s more likely to be going on inside that erodes the foundations and, more frequently than we’d like to acknowledge, leaves those dreams behind in a heap of ashes.