Find Your "Authentic" WorkI founded Career Reinventors 40+ because as a career coach and innovator I feel I can offer specialist help to professionals at midlife. The period of midlife can be like a springboard; where you can perch, take stock of all you've achieved in your career to date, before propelling yourself forward to fulfill your outstanding professional dreams.
More than this, midlife can be the time to evolve or even radically change your professional career so that what you’re doing, and how you’re doing it become more authentically you. By unleashing even more of your talents and capabilities, and channeling them into meaningful projects, you can deepen the satisfaction you get from your work for the next phase of your career. |
Deathbed Regrets are RealBronnie Ware a nurse from New Zealand researched* the deathbed regrets of her terminally ill patients and found that the number one regret was “I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.”
When I first came across Bronnie’s research findings I was deeply saddened. During my 20+ years practising in, consulting in and researching the fields of creativity, innovation and change, I’ve learned how human creativity and human potential are vast. Just as only 10% of an iceberg is visible above the water and 90% remains below, we often only tap into 10% of our creativity and capability, and the rest remains hidden from us and from those around us - including employers. I’ve repeatedly been awestruck watching teams and individuals, imagine, create and grow while they worked on vital innovation projects. I’ve seen those teams execute plans that have transformed businesses and people’s lives. Often at the start of those projects many team members told me they were anxious and uncertain at what lay ahead, but time and again those teams went on to achieve so much more than they’d imagined would be possible. Nevertheless, Bronnie Ware’s research shows, even if people realise at some point in their life, that another path would make them happier, many are unable to change. |
The number one death bed regret: 'I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself.'
We are often not aware of 90% of our creativity and capability.
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Carl Jung researched 'the midlife crisis.'
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But think. Unlike the new graduate starting out, as a midlife professional you’re much better placed to be choosing your career path. Whether you’ve had one employer or several you’ll have learned many skills and been exposed to so much of life that you’ll have a greater sense of what appeals and what turns you off. Midlife is the time to ditch what gets you down in your career and grab more of what you love.
Sometimes people tell me they feel they’ve been living an ‘off the shelf’ career path since graduating; one that’s fairly similar to the professional lives of their peers, friends, and family and which offers similar milestones, promotions, ranks and rewards. However, this path is no longer making them happy. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung researched the ‘midlife crisis’ and described it as a yearning at midlife to ‘individuate’, or to follow our own unique path. |
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