Excerpted from: The Midlife Woman; Reinventing Yourself in your Second Adulthood

“If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.  If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting.” The first time that I heard this expression was at a very moving church service. It so inspired me that I wrote it on a paper and taped it on my bathroom mirror to read every day. Although you can apply these motivating words to any crossroad in your life,applying them to a midlife career change takes on an exciting dream/reality meaning.

Changing or beginning a career at midlife is very different from when we were younger.  Most of us devoted the majority of our time in our twenties and thirties pleasing others, whether it was family, in our career or both. We compromised our work/life choices to support whatever the immediate needs were at the time. Unfortunately, most of us have ended up suppressing our own personal dreams and aspirations for the greater good and the daily grind.