Never too late!!

I love articles and stories like these!

A stunning second act! Meet the people who changed course in midlife – and loved it. by Emine Saner via The Guardian.

While work is a way to earn money and not really a reflection of who you are, if you’re spending a huge portion of your day and week at work, prettyyyyyy g.d. important to moderately like your job.

The direction may not be obvious, but you can start to identify it, says the life coach Fiona Buckland. “You’ve got to take some time and space. You will not figure this stuff out in between your emails.” It doesn’t require a month-long sabbatical or even a week off – you could spend an hour a week, broken down into smaller chunks if necessary, for a bit of self-reflection. Buckland has a list of questions on her website that can help identify goals and values, but there are lots more online, she points out. “Questions like, what are you most proud of? What is the greatest service you’ve given? When do you feel most connected to yourself? People often start to think: what am I interested in? But it’s more important to think about your values, because they are your inner code. When you’re living your life according to your values, you feel aligned and when you don’t, that’s when you’re going to feel that kind of frustration or dissatisfaction. So a good thing to do is to think about a time you felt really alive.”…

To make a change requires courage (and some compassion, Buckland points out, because change can be difficult), but it can be done in smaller, regular steps rather than a giant leap. “That’s what makes change, not suddenly, ‘Right, I’m selling my house and running off.’”

How do you know when it’s time? “You will feel it. There will be this kind of call,” says Buckland. “It might show up in dissatisfaction, or it might show up in excitement about something, so just listen out for it. The more that you are spending time with yourself, not distracted by phones and things like that, the more likely you are to hear that. You’re engaging different parts of your brain than the one that’s just reacting to everything, because it takes deeper thought, questions like: Where do I want to be in the next 10 years?”