How To Redesign Your Life in Midlife

Life Is Love School
2 min readMay 26, 2021

By Life Is Love School (LifeIsLoveSchool.com)

Midlife is when many people start to wonder if they are on the right path. This question could feel unsettling, even scary. After all, by midlife, most of us have invested a few decades in our chosen line of work, and starting afresh seems daunting.

However, if you look at the big picture and think long term, making a pivot if you feel that you’re not on the right track makes perfect sense! Statistically speaking, over 43% of women will live beyond their 90s, and close to 10% will live to 100, so even in midlife you still have plenty of years ahead of you! Give yourself the grace to do work that brings you joy until you take your last breath. There’s no reason you can’t do what you’re passionate about just because you’ve hit a certain age. And this idea that you have to be stuck in the same job forever with no hope of making a change-well, that’s just false.

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

This topic of making a midlife career transition came up in our women-only coaching group, and I was excited to see this question come up. If you are pondering this question, it means that you are likely further along in your healing journey. You want more out of life than barely surviving…

--

--

Life Is Love School

Entrepreneur, Google/Microsoft manager, traveler. Words in Ascent, Hello Love, Change Becomes You. I run support groups for adult survivors of childhood trauma.