You might not like change, but like it or not, everything changes all the time. There’s the kind of change you choose, like retiring from your current work life to pursue the encore career of your dreams. There’s also the kind that’s thrust upon you that you would never choose for yourself, like being downsized from work that you love.
Moreover, both cases, what is important is to choose to travel from anywhere to anywhere. You can dig in your heels, change, and resist change or opportunity open. What to do next to others you are desperate, you know, you can trust you can find your inner self. Sorry about your own party can be thrown or change your attitude.
Choose wisely and you’ll discover you have the courage to not only survive, but to actually thrive as you move through your transition.
Let Shura change experts in the navigation. When she left, she followed the teaching of the youngest child started school, to obtain a master's degree and become a therapist – her choice. Divorce as her three children were empty nest is not her choice. This is a period of one year, following divorce, the camping trip across the United States alone (she) chooses to say, to writing for a living is envisaged that initially triggered.
Once back home, Jean worked as a therapist for three years before retiring – again, the choice. A year in Austria and a second Masters degree followed, and finally jumped into writing full time, an encore career chosen wholeheartedly.
In the midst of writing her first book, The Coming of Aging: Learning to Live from the inside out, Jean was diagnosed with breast cancer. Derailed? Sure! But here's the thing. Jean did not waste time fighting against the fact of illness, or blaming or feeling sorry for herself. He took care of business.
An operation to become three. Then, after post-operative agreements. Then let her energy and strength back months. Of course, so her choice to study all the information she needed on how to conduct a good choice. However, she believed that her instincts, and put forward their own right decision.
While the book was on hold, never lost his enthusiasm for the project or the hope for the future. He saw this derailment as an opportunity to take better care of himself physically, but also as a wake-up call to stay focused on the things in life that are most important to it.
Jean-fuel cell has changed her forward in life. Today, five years after her diagnosis, has been published Second Coming of aging, she has been shopping the two publishers of books and works of three books. The encore career dream to write like this, leading workshops and retreats, the time of Jean's life that she is speaking around the country.
Once you decide to embrace change rather than resisting it, your encore life and encore career choices become much clearer to you.