How To Reinvent Yourself & Make The Greatest Comeback Of Your Life (At Any Age)
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Hey, each friend male and welcome to the male Robin's podcast. I was just sitting in her thinking, I cannot believe that we've been doing this podcast for two years already, and it's just absolutely incredible. And so i've been reflecting in particular about all of the questions that we receive every single month from your fellow listeners around the world.

And I was looking through IT recently, and I wondered what what the most common things that people write in about asking for us to do an episode on. And let me share a few of them with you. Career change, finding purpose, making friends is an adult starting a new chapter after major life change, restarting after a setback, dating after a break up, and you want to know something interesting.

All of these are about the same topic, reinvention. And that's what you and are going to talk about today. And one of the things that i'm gonna is i'm going to walk you through a step by step process for reinventing your life.

I'm going to give you my favorite metaphor that I use when I have to reinvent some aspect of my life. And i'm going to remind you over and over again, you're never starting from scratch. You've got experience, wisdom and resilience under your belt, and you're bring in that to whatever change you wanna.

And look, I know what IT feels like to be overwhelmed to go through a major life change. And I also know what IT feels like to not know what you want, or even how to get started. So today you and I are going to flip the script and break down the topic of reinvention step by step.

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It's always an honor to spend time with you and to be together if you ran new. Welcome to the mall Robin's podcast family. Thank you for choosing to listen to this podcast because IT tells me that you're the type of person that values your time and you're interested in learning about ways that you can improve your life.

And today, holy cow, you are in for an amazing experience because you and I are gonna be taken our relationship to a whole new level. And embarking our road trip is not just any road trip. We're gonna talking about the fantastic journey that is your life.

And can you tell i'm excited? One of the reasons why i'm so excited about this topic is because i've met so many of you out and about as I live in my life and whenever I meet you in person, you tell me that you love listening to this podcast, as you take a walk, as you're listening in your car, as you start your day, which means that as you're listening, you and I are walk and drive and talking and learning and sharing. This journey called life together.

It's true, isn't IT. Life is one big, unpredictable journey. The twist, the turns, the pit stops, the details. Don't even get me started on the frequent breakdowns.

But right now, you and I are together in this moment, and we are side by side, travelling down the road together. And I just love being here with you right now. IT certainly makes IT more fun knowing that i'm on the right life with someone awesome like you.

But here's a question I want you to answer for yourself. As you imagine yourself right now in this moment, are you in the driver seat of your life with your hands on the wheel? Or are you just a passenger who's along for the ride? Now the answer might not be obvious.

Maybe you're in a career that doesn't rely fit you. Maybe you work really hard and you thought you would love the life that you're work so hard to create. But now that are in IT, not really. Maybe you have navigated your life like so many of us do based on what your parents thought you should do, or making your partner happy, or what your kids wanted do what you thought you should be doing. That's what IT feels like to be a passenger. And my mission today is to guide you step by step to putting yourself firmly in the driver seat of your life and grabbing that wheel and taking responsibility for navigating where you go next on this extraordinary journey.

So no matter where you are right now, whether you just graduated or you're stalling out in your career in your twenty thirties or forties, or you hit the accelerator and you just want to know how to go even faster, whether you go through a break up or hate a major life change or maybe like me, you're an empty nester or like our son, you've just started college and you feel like you haven't to figure IT all Louis, you're flying down the road. This episode is the road map you don't even know you needed. And I wanted tell you something even cooler, no matter where you are right now, you get to choose your next destination.

And even Better, once you know where you want to head next, there's a million ways to get where you want to go. And that is why every single one of the questions that I get over and over and over again, whether it's about dating, career change, creating your next chapter, finding your purpose, is all about reinventing yourself, learning how to be the driver of your life, learning how to be clear about where you want to go next, and then doing the work to hurt the course that feels the most exciting, aligned and empower ing to you. And that is exactly what I am going to teach you to do over and over and over again today.

And i'm also super excited to do this by answering a few questions from your fellow listeners about this topic. And here's the thing, as you hear their question, you might not be in the same specific situation that they are in. But i'm going to tell you some there's some about your life that you want to change.

There's an aspect of a relationship you in that you want to reinvent. And today is an opportunity for you to just stop going with the flow, is an opportunity for you to wake up and realized that no matter where you are or what you're dealing with, you always have the power to take the wheel and turn your life in a brand new direction. And that brings me to our very first question from a listener named Sarah.

Hey, man, is Sarah. Can you talk about starting over at forty and being terrified doing IT? I turned forty last year in my life is not okay.

I've been in a toxic marriage for eleven years with a man who also has a lot of health problems. Hashtag guilt. I was laid off from a job I loved, and I have gained a crazy amount of weight.

That's just the icing on the cake. I don't even know where to start. I don't even know if I have ever been truly happy.

I would love to hear your advice on this topic. I want the second act of my life to be amazing. Help me. Well, thank you.

First of all, thank you to Sarah for doing the work for all of us. And I want to say one thing out of the gate. Sarah said that he is terrified of starting over.

First of all, everybody, you're never starting over. You're always starting from experience. This is so important for you to understand just because you've got laid off, just because you've ended the relationship, you're not starting from scratch. You have all the experiences, good and bad in your life that you can now use to reinvent and reimagine what the next chapter of your life looks like next.

And i'm seeing the same question that sir is asking, whether it's those of you in your twice that are writing and you've graduated from college and you have no idea how to begin creating the next chapter of your life or or you're writing in at the age of thirty three and like Sarah, you've been laid off from your job. In fact, IT seems like everywhere I go at some point, everybody's kind of lean and over going how we just went to your laffed. So you're not alone or maybe you're on the other side of this because so many people get laid off, you actually have been promoted, but now you're freaking out because you feel like you're an imposter in this role and you're not capable of handling IT or perhaps for fifty five, seeing a lot of these kinds of questions.

Meal, I am now in empty nester. I want this next chapter of my life to be incredible. And i'm starting to look at my spouse now if the kids are gone and i'm like, or maybe you just met the love of your life and it's unbelievable, but you are worried, terrified, in fact, that you're going to screwed up.

So I want to talk about serious question globally because she's not the only one who's feeling kind of scared about this notion of what this next chapter might be choose that were terrified. You don't have to be terrified. This is one of the greatest opportunities of your life.

So if you want to change, you either want to step into your power when good things are happening, or you wanted, just look out on the road ahead and create an exciting new possibility for yourself. You are listening to the exact thing that you need to hear. Now, ninety percent of the questions that i'm getting right now are about the topic of reinvention.

How do I reinvent myself? How do I reinvent my life? You may not be using that word means, Sarah didn't.

But that is exactly what you and I are gna talk about today, because I want you to imagine a brand new possibility for your life. And if you like, Sarah can say, I want to be happy. I want the next chapter of my life to be amazing.

If you can just even start there, all you have to do is start to think about what kind of a map do you need in order to chart a course to make that possibility that you see for your life a reality. And I love this topic of reinvention. I love, I love, I love IT, because I have this metaphor that i've been using for years when IT comes to understanding reinvention.

And what is the metaphor? The metaphor that I use is our road trip. That's right, life is one big road trip. And we're gona use this metaphor of a road trip to dismissed fy the entire concept and process of reinventing yourself or reinventing your life.

And for those of you that have listened to my number one ranked audio series on auditable called rein venture life, you have heard me talk about this metaphor. And this is such a powerful concept, because the fact is, life is a journey. It's one big road trip.

And for too many of us, that road trip is boring and monotone. And I want your life to be the most exciting, exhilarating, amazing road trip that you could possibly imagine. And every single year of your life is another mile marker on this twisting, amazing journey called life for me.

I met mile marker fifty six. That is how far down the road I am. And it's a useful exercise to think about IT that way because when I say you, hey, I met mile marker fifty six, that tells me that there's a lot of row that i've covered behind me.

But guess what, there is a huge open road ahead of my. And when you take responsibility for charting the course of where that open road is, gonna lead you, you take control of your life. That's what reinvention is all about.

It's about creating a map, picking a destination and charting your course on this road called life. And here's what's exciting about that. You get to choose.

You get to choose how fast you're gona drive, where you're going to take the highway, where you're gona twist and turn, where you want to go next. And so serious question was, now where do I start? We're gonna start by pulling over.

And the reason why we're going to start by just mentally pulling over together for a second is because Sarah is literally describing her life as if he is driving through a harsh, heavy rainstorm with hailed dropping down. I mean, between the toxic husband and the way she's put on and getting laid off from her dream job, it's holy smokes. It's like rain and sideways in your life right now, Sarah.

But that's okay. That's okay because we know that the rain doesn't last forever. We know that on the road ahead there are going to be Sunny skies and there's going to be big fluffy clouds and all kinds of amazing views.

And you can make IT through this rainstorm. And so here's what are going to do, though you can't possibly assess. Where you're going until you pull over for a second and you reflect on where you're at right now.

And more importantly, where do you want to go next? I mean, think about the last time you got lost. When you get lost as driving around, help you find yourself, no, you gotta pull over. You gotta figure out where you are. You gotta consult the mile mark, you gotta look for landMarks.

And then you ve got to figure IT OK, where are you going next? And so pulling cover is a mental strategy visualized yourself right now, just pulling off the road to life under the side for a second because you need that break for just a second. You need to hit the pause if you've been dealing with financial stress or you've been dealing with health issues.

Because by pulling over for just a second, you're acknowledging what seriously saying you're gna hit the pause button on your life as IT is right now. And we're going to take a second to collect themselves and then we're going to figure out the destination and where we want to go next. Now that we're pulled over, we're going to talk about the next step to reinvention, and we'll do that when we come back.

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Welcome back, I melt robbins. We are talking about the topic of reinvention, and we're using the metaphor of a road trip. And what happens on a road trip? Well, a lot of times you break down, lot of times you get a flat tire. A lot of times there is A D or, and life is not going according to your plan. And that is exactly what has happened to a listener named john.

Hi, it's jen. I'm struggling going through a break up, and it's hard because I thought I found the person that I was going to spend the a sin life with. I was very happy.

And I guess I thought I found my person. But this break up is just affected me with work. It's just a struggle. It's it's just a daily struggle to get up and the daily struggle to get address. I would just loves advice.

Thank you for being so honest about what you're dealing with. And what you're dealing with right now is A D tour on the road trip called life. That is what this is.

And all the tourists in life, whether IT is a break up or it's the death of somebody that you love, or losing a job, or just anything that happens that takes you off the road that you thought you were onna, go down. And in those moments, IT is important to pull over. IT is important to feel sad and to let those emotions rise up.

But you can't stay in that place. You can't allow IT know if you get a flat tire. If you get into an accident, what do you do? You pull over, you fix the car and you move forward.

And that's what you have to do now. You have spent enough time being sad. You have spent enough time lamenting what happened. You have spent enough time looking in the rear view mayor at this relationship. If you're somebody that is looking backwards, you're looking at the past, you're looking at the road behind you, and you're spending way too much of your time and your energy wishing things were different, feeling sad about the miles that you've that you've already bent down and you wish you would done something different. You wish you had ended up.

You wish that here at twenty four, you would have measured in a different thing because that what like whatever IT is that you're doing that involves the review mor stop because you're not going that way. Think about the road trip analogy. Does a car on our road trip drive forward down the road? Or do you go on a road trip by driving backwards? Are you getting my point? There's a reason why the windshields a car is so much bigger.

Then the review mere. You're not going backwards and you can drive forward if you're always staring in the review mere. And so you did the right thing by feeling sad.

You did the right thing by poland over. But now it's time for you to look out the windshield, look at the road ahead. And here's what I want you to do.

Stop and look at the open road. Imagine if this deal that just happened, somebody that you're in love with broke up with you. That sucks. There's no way around IT. IT totally sucks, just like getting a flat tire sucks.

So what are you going to do about IT? What are you going to do about IT? Well, i'll tell you what I don't want you to do, because this is why you can't get out of bed.

You are telling yourself that this happened because there's something wrong with you. You're telling yourself that this happened because you're not worthy, because you're not good enough, and that is complete bulls shit. You wanna know why this happened? Let's go back to our road trip.

This happened because every single one of us has a completely unique and deeply personal journey that we take on this thing called life. And I choose to believe that whatever deal hits you, IT is a line with what's meant for you. I also deeply believe that the best years of my life are on the road ahead.

And if you can embrace those two truth, that every detour in life that does not go according to plan, it's not what you wanted. And there have been so many details in my life that have been painful, but I can see now how they were aligned with pushing me in the direction I needed to go, giving me the lessons that were aligned with my purpose, or the things that I needed to learn. In order to make the years ahead even Better, even happier, even more purposeful, you have to tell yourself that.

Because what's the alternative? The alternative is you feeling like a victim. You feeling as though you, you're never good enough. Now's ever gonna work out though this d or is not something you wanted. This detour is going to open you up to something that you needed.

I swear to god, when you start to think like that, when you grab the wheel of your life, when you take responsibility, not for the day or, but for how you're gonna navigate, what happens next, that when you happen to your power and you can do that. Jn, this isn't about some guy breaking your heart. This is about you discovering how to love yourself.

So here's what I want you to do. Clearly, you believe that finding your person is something that you need to do so on a piece of paper right down all the things that this person does for you. How do they make you feel? What are some of the things that they do for you, the kind of person that you're gonna all maddy deeply in love with?

Now, all those things that you write down do them for yourself. That is what this detour is trying to teach you, john, that the one person that you need to truly love and truly be in a relationship with your person, so to speak. You already found that person and IT to you.

And so I think that this deal is giving you the breakdown you needed so that you could strengthen your relationship with yourself. That's why this happened. alright.

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Your first order was a three sixty dollar gift that T H R I V E market a commem through market a com. Welcome back. My name's mell Robins. I'm so excited you're here because we're talking about the road trip called life, how you navigated, how you charge a new course, picking the proper destination to go to next and most importantly, having the kind of attitude that the best years of your life are on the road ahead, and at any single moment you can make a decision to take the wheel of your life and turn IT in a new direction. And that brings me to our next question from a listener name, mechano.

Hey, man, it's mechano. My question for you is, what do you do when you feel blah? Everything is fine, life is going your way. Nothing bad is happening, but all of a sudden you're stuck in the limbo of feeling absolutely nothing. In lxi ico, IT can last a few minutes or even days.

How do you push through and keep on keeping on? Right now, I want to withdraw from the world and recluse, but I have a family and Young kids that I don't get to see much because of my work schedule. So the time I have is very precious, and i'd rather not spend IT a gloomy guess.

Have you felt like this before? What do you do to get out of IT? Thank you for everything.

Mechano a boy, am I glad you asked me this question? Because there is no way in hell I am going to let you stay in that blast space. And you just ask if i've ever felt that way before.

Of course I have. This is so Normal to have periods of your life where you feel blow, where you feel relax days ago, where you just kind of have no energy. And there are a lot of words for this.

People describe this as feeling stuck, being a survival mode researchers have given at the label languish. Is this sort of this Spike noddy's really wrong? But nothing's really right. You don't really have any enthusiasm.

And if I go back to our metaphor about life being one big long road trip, the way that I would describe IT is that you're just on autopilot right now. That's right. Cruise control is on your rolling down the road of life.

You're exhausted. You're trying just to get to the next mile marker. Well, guess what? There's really, really good news here.

And the first thing that I want acknowledge you for is that you've already checked the box on step one for changing the situation and that is you recognize IT seriously, it's really important if you relate to what mechanical saying or you're going through the motions in life. You're just sort of on autopilot. You're not really paying attention.

Nothing's wrong. Nothing's right. Your kind of boy, your kind of a board. Step one is you got to check the box and say, boom, that's me. I'm on autopilot, and I don't want to be on autopilot anymore.

Step two, you have to look ahead at that open road, and you must intentionally figure out a specific destination that makes you excited to drive towards. One of my funders memories from childhood was the summer that my father rented a motor home and we did across country family road trip to hit as many national parks we could. And the big destination that my dad was, like super excited about was we were going to reach yellowstone, and we are going to stay at that big lodge, yellowstone, and we are going to build old faith.

So I remember you wanted know why that road trip was so exciting. IT was because we always had something on the road ahead to look forward to, whether is the world famous corn palace, which was a stop or wall drug, or mount rushmore, we were inching our way, told the big destination, yellowstone. But along the way, there are all these cool things on the road ahead that we were excited to check out.

You need that in your life. And now some of this analogies starting to make sense, right? Because if you're staring in the rear view mirror, that's not exciting.

You're not had in in that direction. If you look out at the open road and you don't see anything in front of you that you're excited about that a problem. And so here's the solution is a counter intuitive, as IT may seem when you look out on the open road.

And for me, I always like to go in time travel about two years ahead because I think in twenty four months, you can chip away and make just about anything happen. That's plenty of time for you to start working for something. No, you have to get intentional about where you're headed next, about that destination, about your yellowed stone, which had always been a dream of my father's to take his family there.

And there is something that you dream about. And it's time to start dreaming big again, especially if you're feeling blaw. There are three reasons why you have to pick a new destination, and these are the same three reasons why having dreams matter.

I've got super cal research to share with you about why this is so important when IT comes to your life and to your energy and to purpose and meaning and enjoying this road trip called life number one, big dreams, a new destination that you're gna head towards having something out on the horizon that you're looking forward to, that you're working toward IT creates energy in your life, which is something that you're clearly missing. I can hear IT in your voice mechano IT creates excitement. IT gives you something to look forward to.

IT gives you a goal to work toward. And when you have this sort of destination out there on the road ahead, just picking your head up out of the monotone of your data day life, he creates momentum, and that forward momentum right out the front, on the road ahead, that so important because that's missing free right now, isn't IT. When you see more of the same, same old, same old, you ve got to create an epic road trip.

And speaking of a new destination, a destination like a yellow stone, some out there, two, two years ahead. Now IT changes the way you see the world right now. It's very similar to opening up the appeared on a camera to let more lighten new destinations on the road of life, open you up to more possibilities in your life.

Things are hard right now. I get IT. You got a lot on your plate. Well, guess what? Two years from now, you can change just about anything. And when you start to open up to bigger dreams, you start to retrain and reshape your outlook, your mind, your attitude to be bigger and Better and more exciting than what you're dealing with right now.

The third thing that happens when you get very serious about grab in that wheel and cranking IT told a new destination, you're gna suddenly, suddenly see all kinds of possibility and changes that you could make. See, this is the part where that blow feeling IT goes away really quickly. And i'm going to give you an example.

Then I want to talk about some research about why adding something exciting on the road ahead fixes that feeling of being on autopilot and shakes you free from that heavy blow language that you're in. Have you ever noticed that the moment that you plan a vacation, let's say you're going to take the kids to disney, you're onna get away. You immediately feel Better.

You're not even on vacation. Research shows that when you plan something like that, you get two bites at the excitement. apple. The first one is just planning IT and having that trip to disney out on the road ahead because now you're excited because you're looking forward to IT. And the second like boost that you get is when you actually go on the vacation.

But the reason why is so powerful to have something out in the future is just think about how IT impacts you before you go away. You're not even there yet. It's a week before you're gna board the plane with your kids and go down to disney and you walk in to work on a monday.

Your boss can pile work up to your eyeballs. Do you care? I'll think so. why? Because disney is in your future, and that's pretty cool.

So even the demands of your current data day, blood draining life, if they don't get you down, why? Because on the road ahead, you got soften. Pretty cool.

That trip just planning IT, just visualizing IT just thinking about what's in your future IT boost your mood IT picks your thoughts up IT even helps you be more productive. And this is all simply because you intentionally put something out in the future, a new destination that makes you excited. That's why this matter so much.

And here's the other thing. I know what you're think in right now. Now I don't have time for this ship, a new destination, a trip to disney.

I barely, I work so much, I barely see my kids. Well, I gotto hit you with some research because particularly when you're exhausted and overwhelmed, and IT feels like something needs to give. Guess what? We tend to feel like we just need to break from at all.

But the reserve arch proves something very counter intuitive, because when you're overwhelmed, like mechanic is when you're feeling checked out blood, you're on autopilot creese control. You're just kind of zoned out in life. Do you know what you need? You need engagement.

You need to add energizing activities to your schedule. And when you do that, something oraculous happens. You feel like you have more time.

I know this is bananas, but let me just kind of unpack the study for you. This was done by Laura vander cam. SHE writes about IT in this essay in the new york times.

There's a Better way to reclaim your time than quiet quitting. SHE did a study in twenty twenty one or SHE worked with super busy people, just like you who feel exhausted and tapped out. The people in our study said things like life feels very chaotic with so many different balls in the air.

Same my work to do list is never ending. I bet you can relate to that. Or how about this one? I need a few more hours each day in order to have time to just manage my family and my life wouldn't be nice. But what he did over the course of nine weeks, this is really interesting. Instead of asking people to scale back or have Better boundaries between work and life, you know what he taught them to do.

He taught every one of these folks that are is busy and is burnt out as you that you need to add something, whether you're building in regular physical activity or you're building in a new little adventure or your putting something that requires effort, but it's meaningful to you that you choose action over no action. So for example, instead of just passing out on front of the couch and watching your favorite series, pick up a book and read a novel instead, he also introduced people as busy as you to this principle of take one night for you, and that just means commit for a few hours once a week to doing something you enjoy. IT can be work related, not with your family, but just for a few hours each week.

Instead of doing less, add something and join acquire a softball team. And here's what's amazing about IT when it's something you're interested in doing. Even though you look at your schedule right now and it's a giant janga puzzle, you're like, I cannot add one more thing to this thing alone.

And you can because when you sign up for something that matters for you, you commit to doing IT IT nudges you to figure out the logistics to arrange the child care to get your spouse or a friend or a family member to cover for you, even if life feels so busy that you can even contemplate such a thing right now. And IT works, IT works. The participants in our studies, even though their schedules when they began the study, or just as overwhelming, is yours when they committed to doing something like just singing in the church quire, you know what, they're reported that their time felt more abundant.

This is the disney effect that i'm talking about. This is like picking your head up out of a monotonous part of the road trip and seeing, oh, wow, every minute we're getting closer and closer to yellowstone, oh wow, I got church quire this week. I got my pickup soccer league this week.

I got the two terms that i'm gonna do as a volunteer this week IT really energizes you. And in fact, people even reported making more progress at work, finding more time with their family. They had an increase of energy and engagement that spilled out into all areas of their life.

You know, the fact is we all have the same hundred and sixty eight hours every single week. But here's the thing, about time. And it's also true about the journey of life.

Your relationship to time and your relationship to where you are in life is also about the stories that you're telling yourself. Your life is always going to be filled with to do this. But when you add something that you actually want to do, that the secret, you gotta add something that means something to you.

What happens is when you add that in and IT competes with your to do list, time feels different. You feel more in control of your life because you're saying, I know I want to do, but guess what? I'm making IT to quire.

I'm making IT to tutoring. Here's another study from just a few years ago that I think is really fascinating. So they took university students and they divided them into two groups.

One group of students were told they could leave class fifteen minutes early, so they gave them fifteen minutes of extra time. The other group was asked to stay fifteen minutes longer and help add IT at risk high school students essays. You wanna know who felt like they had more time? The kids who took fifteen minutes to edit those high school students essays.

why? Well, logically, IT doesn't make any sense, does IT? Because we literally gave the other students fifteen extra minutes.

But what do they do with that? Nothing meaningful. They probably like walked over to the cow or SAT around and scroll through social media. What happens to you when you intentionally spend time doing a rewarding and engaging activity, your time feels less scarce? That's pretty freaking cool.

And when you put time into something that is meaningful to you, or you find energizing your whole narrative about your life and your power changes, you no want to feel like your life is a slog. I do this all the time. I probably somebody from the outside that you think is one of the busiest people, you know, and I am.

And there's that saying, you want something done, ask a busy person, because they figure out how to fit things in. And there's something about getting really disciplined and excited about doing something for yourself, even though your super busy that does spill out into the other areas of your life. In fact, my husband Chris, right now, he's getting a masters in spiritual psychology.

Does he have time to do that? No thought is a hospital volunteer. not. As he is busy launching a new program for his mansor treat called sold degree, he doesn't have time to do that, but actually he does because he is making the time. I have seen this research work in my own life.

I am telling you, as counter into of as IT sounds, please look at the road ahead. The best days of your life are ahead of you. You have to start dreaming big right now.

IT creates this upward spiral. You can do this. There is a flame burning inside you. There is, you know, IT. You can feel that you know that you're meant for more.

You know, you are not supposed to be broken down on the side of the road on this road trip called life. And I think we underestimate how quickly you can turn your life in a new direction. We spend so much time thinking it's not possible.

We put so much energy into our excuses and our fears. And when you get to a point where you can say i'm done feeling this way, I want this to feel good. I want to turn my life in a new direction.

IT is amazing how quickly things can happen. And so I want you to hear from a listener to this podcast named denis, who had been thinking about doing something for twenty years as she's going down the road to life deep within her. The flame that was burning was, I would love to be a voice over artist.

I would love to do that. And for twenty years, SHE thought about turning her life in a new direction. Just thought about IT, just like you keep doing.

And then SHE finally pulled over. SHE charted in a new course, and SHE did and check out what happened. I have had .

the dream of being a voice server artist for twenty fifteen years. I felt like a part of me died each day in monday nine to five, and it's the sense of loss of a life, unlived and and fulfill. I just knew I cannot settle anymore.

And now i'm reflecting on the past six months, I set a goal to have a live voice over A C X. Profile by june thirteen th, so I could narrow books in the profile title, go live until August. I wasn't harder myself, but celebrated what I did do, actually taking and posting a photo of myself and taking action steps.

Just today, I received my second nursing job. So there are now two books in the works. I have three more additions being reviewed.

I'm auditioning for commercials and reaching out to potential clients with plans to be a full time, thriving voice over artist by this time next year. So grateful for all the support and the lessons i've learned. Wow, i'm a happier, more committed to my dreams person with infused energy, drive and excitement. I know the best is yet to be. Thank you well, and your team.

I'm just basking in the sound of a person's voice who is fulfilled because SHE got serious about what he wanted her life to look like. He did that in six months. And this is something SHE was thinking about for twenty years.

You only get one life. And what did he said is, right, living on autopilot. That is a life unlived and unfulfilled. Do have dreams, and you do deserve to make this next leg of the journey of this thing called life as exciting and as amazing as you possibly can. So pull over, assessed where you are.

Remember, do not stare with the rear view mayor, but focus on the windshield because you're going forward, my friend, remind yourself that the best years of your life are on the road ahead. And I promise you, you will travel far beyond what you can currently see. Cause one day, this epic road trip that we call life, it's gonna over.

And if what everybody who has approached that final leg of the journey says is true, it's gonna happen for you and me in the blank of an eye. So please find the courage to create a new course for your life, find the courage to take the wheel and steer IT in whatever direction your heart desires, and find the courage to enjoy IT. And in case nobody else tells you, I love you, I believe in you and I believe in your ability to create a Better life. And I guess i'll see you on the road. I told you this would be a trip.

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