The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

#342: Why the Belief That You Are Too Old Is Keeping You Stuck in Midlife

The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

Show Notes

Have you started imagining what could be next for you, only to hear a familiar voice say some version of "It is too late for me, I am too old to start now"? If you are in a midlife career and life transition, there is a good chance that one belief, more than any other, is the thing standing between you and the life you actually want. It is one of the most common beliefs people carry into this season, and it is not a fact. It is a story absorbed somewhere along the way from family, culture, an...

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