Baby Boomers - Ten Tips For Navigating Midlife Transition By Dr. Toni LaMotta

There are many things you can do to help yourself get through the midlife transition. Here are ten:

1. Give yourself daily ME time - be sure to reflect on how you are feeling. Many midlife people have emotional as well as physical changes - and try to ignore them - Don't
2. Know that there is no one else out there. If you find something you don't like in someone else ask yourself - 'what aspect of my life is out of balance here? If this is bothering ME - there's something in ME to look at.
3. It's time to truly get in touch with your unconscious. It will speak to you in dreams and daydreams. You may find things out about yourself by watching your doodles during times that you are bored. Your inner self wants to be hear. Listen.
4. This is the most important time to have a coach or a mentor. It should be someone outside your normal circle who can be objective. This is a time to really get in touch with your inner world and have someone else keep you grounded. It could be a friend or a professional counselor as well.
5. If you have not been listening to your self-talk, this is the time to master it. Your thoughts have created your life so far. Is this the life you want to continue to create. If so, great. If not, NOW is the time to change and challenge your thoughts. Only you can.
6. This is YOUR time. Learn now to express yourself fully. Express your needs and feelings but fully allow others to have theirs as well.
7. Almost all of us have addictions to something and midlife is certainly the time to ask the question if you haven't already - What's really the pain I am attempting to avoid by this addiction?
8. Who have your heroes been? Are there people you admire? This may be a part of YOU that is wanting to be more fully expressed. This is YOUR time. Do it now.
9. What are the thoughts you wake up thinking? Or go to sleep with? Or wake in the middle of the night? Your inner voice wants you to know. Listen.
10. An finally, are you having FUN yet? What gives you joy? Where are your passions? Have you learned to play? If not now, then when!

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From Dr. Toni LaMotta, Midlife Reinvention Specialist, Best-Selling Author of "What You Really Want, Wants You, International Keynote Speaker