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Barbara Murphy-Shannon's avatar

I had my "midlife crisis" around the time I found you, Ash, so I blame you.. Noooo JK. It was 2017 and my employer asked for my sisters death certificate to prove giving me bereavement time off was warranted. Punch in the face! and a wake up call in one. A twoffa. I realized I was working for a nazi company disguised as a resort. This resulted in me going back to school (at 56 years old)to get a masters in psychology to be a life coach which turned into a business coach (because you can't stuff away 30 years of business experience when talking to people about their lives). Which turned into writing and landing on email marketing. It was rough making all those transitions and lots of nights saying to myself "what the fuck did I do???) But I stuck with it because what was the alternative. Go back to a 9-5 and have to prove that my sister real did die? Fuck That! This was my motivation. I guess my advice for anyone in this situation, is to realize its going to take time and you'll have ups and downs along the way but don't give up. Stick with it like your life depends on it, because it does. (I might have borrowed that last line from you Ash, because it sure sounds like you) xoxoxox

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Jessica Miller's avatar

I’m sitting in a Bavarian hotel room with jet lag and feeling completely burnt out. For me the problem is that as a senior manager in my company, I have to clean up the mess of poor executive decisions. I’m done with it.

As the breadwinner in my family I can’t exactly walk away now. But I can take steps every day to a destination with a deadline. Life is too short.

I love that you’ve been able to distill this down to a simple idea of not putting pressure on finishing. I would also say that it’s important not to sketch out a clear and concrete path forward. Life doesn’t move that way. Fluidity is important. Keep the destination in mind and commit to working towards it consistently-but don’t confine yourself to one path.

My husband launched his custom clothing business this year and it gets me excited wanting to support him in growing that. It’s the first time where I’ve started to think outside of my own success. He’s so talented and the other upside is that I get amazing custom clothes out of it.

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