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AT 72, I'M STILL BECOMING.
And I believe you can too.
I've spent 72 years learning something I wish every woman could know:
We are never stuck.
Life continues to move. Circumstances change. People change. We change.
While we can't control everything that happens in our lives, we can choose the direction we want our lives to move.
Too often, we give that choice away. We allow our circumstances, our past, or other people's expectations to determine what we believe is possible.
And somewhere along the way, we forget something we knew naturally as children:
Anything is possible.
REMEMBER WHEN ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE?
As children, we could imagine becoming anything.
Before we learned all the reasons something couldn't happen, we dreamed without limits.
I wanted to be a nurse because I wanted to help people.
It turns out nursing wasn't in the cards for me. My reaction to bodily fluids made that career path pretty clear!
But the purpose behind the dream never disappeared.
I wanted to help people.
Years later, I found coaching.
The picture wasn't the same.
But the purpose was.
That experience taught me something I carry with me today:
Sometimes the picture changes while the purpose remains.
Your path doesn't have to unfold exactly as you imagined it.
You can change direction.
You can discover something new.
You can begin again.
THE DREAM WAS THERE LONG BEFORE I WAS READY TO LIVE IT
Becoming a coach wasn't a decision I made after retirement.
The idea had been part of my life for years.
I studied coaching in the evenings and on weekends. I took courses, learned from mentors, and explored what coaching could become.
Then I retired.
And suddenly, I was in a position to pursue the dream I'd been thinking about for so long.
I expected to feel free.
Instead, I felt something I didn't expect at all:
Fear.
Total and absolute fear.
I hit the brakes.
I realized that I had spent much of my life being what other people needed or wanted from me.
I had responsibilities.
People who depended on me.
Expectations to meet.
And suddenly I was faced with the freedom to choose something simply because I wanted it.
That was frightening.
Then one of my mentors said something that changed the way I looked at fear:
Fear and excitement give off the same signals. You decide how you want to interpret them.
So I chose excitement.
Not because I wasn't afraid.
I was.
But excitement gave me energy. It gave me permission to move forward and begin doing things I never thought I would do.
I took the first steps toward the life I had imagined.
And I learned:
You don't have to wait for fear to disappear before you move forward.
Sometimes you simply have to decide what the feeling means.
THE WOMAN I SEE
Maybe You've Spent Your Life Being Who Everyone Else Needed You to Be.
I understand the woman who knows there must be more.
She may look successful from the outside.
She may have a career, a family, a relationship, a home, responsibilities, and a long list of accomplishments.
But somewhere along the way, she may have forgotten to ask:
What do I want?
Women receive so many messages about how we're supposed to look and live.
We're supposed to stay youthful.
Look perfect.
Dress a certain way.
Have the perfect relationship.
Have the perfect children.
Have everything together.
And heaven forbid we show a wrinkle or admit we're still figuring things out.
But real women aren't perfect.
We age.
We change.
We make mistakes.
We experience successes and failures.
We discover new dreams.
Sometimes we have no idea what comes next.
And we keep going.
I want to see more women who are getting older and still dreaming.
Women who are changing direction.
Women who are building something new.
Women who are discovering themselves again.
Because success looks different for everyone.
Your success might be building a business.
Changing careers.
Traveling.
Creating.
Learning.
Leaving something that no longer serves you.
Building a healthier relationship with yourself.
Or simply deciding that the next chapter of your life is going to belong to you.
You have the right to choose your life.
You are allowed to want things.
You are allowed to change your mind.
You are allowed to dream again.
You are allowed to create something different.
And you are allowed to love yourself exactly where you are while still wanting more.
YOUR PAST CAN BECOME PART OF YOUR STRENGTH
You Don't Have to Live There to Learn From It.
I don't believe we should spend our lives dwelling on what has happened in the past.
We can't change it.
But we can choose what we take from it.
Our experiences can teach us:
Resilience — because we survived.
Wisdom — because every experience has something to teach us.
Flexibility — because difficult times rarely unfold exactly as we expect.
Compassion — because experiencing our own struggles can help us understand what others may be going through.
Strength — because we made it through.
Those qualities don't have to remain in our past.
They become resources we can draw upon as we move forward.
And they give us something incredibly valuable:
Evidence that we are capable.
YOU ARE CAPABLE
You Already Have Evidence.
I believe all of us are capable of doing the things we want to do.
But we often forget.
We minimize what we've already accomplished.
We tell ourselves it wasn't a big deal.
We overlook the small victories because they don't seem important enough to count.
But they count.
Every difficult decision you've made.
Every challenge you've survived.
Every time you picked yourself up and kept going.
Every time you learned something you didn't know before.
Every time you did something you weren't sure you could do.
You've already been proving your capability throughout your life.
You've lived through trying times and come out the other side.
You've adapted.
You've learned.
You've continued.
That is evidence.
You don't have to become capable.
You already are.
Sometimes transformation begins simply by accepting that fact.
YOUR INNER GUIDANCE SYSTEM
Your Thoughts Can Help Point You Toward Where You Want to Go.
I believe our thoughts and what we choose to focus on can become an important guidance system as we move through life.
When we become clear about what we want, we can begin paying attention to our thoughts and the feelings they generate.
Does this thought move me toward what I want—or pull me away from it?
When we focus on possibility, we become more open to ideas and opportunities.
Sometimes the answer doesn't arrive as a finished solution.
It arrives as an idea.
A conversation.
A possibility.
A next step.
An opportunity we hadn't considered.
And then we have a choice:
Do we take action?
This is how I think about manifestation and the Law of Attraction.
I don't believe we simply ask for something and sit back waiting for it to appear.
I believe that when we become clear about what we want, believe that we are worthy of experiencing it, and align our thoughts, feelings, and actions with that vision, we become more receptive to possibilities and opportunities that can move us toward it.
The attraction isn't the destination.
It's part of the journey.
And we still have to walk the path.
Think it. Feel it. Believe it. Act on it.
CHANGE IS HARD. BUT IT ISN'T IMPOSSIBLE.
Life has taught me that change is hard—but it is not impossible.
We often want certainty before we begin.
We want to know exactly how everything will turn out.
We want to know that we'll succeed before we take the first step.
But life rarely gives us that kind of guarantee.
Sometimes we simply have to decide what we want.
Then we have to close our eyes, take a leap of faith, and take the first step.
You don't have to know how the entire journey will unfold.
You just have to be willing to begin.
AT 72, I'M STILL BECOMING.
Because Life Is Not Stagnant.
For every goal I achieve, a new one opens up.
That's how I want to live.
I believe that if we aren't growing, we're stagnating.
And honestly?
That's really boring.
I'm still learning.
Still growing.
Still dreaming.
Still asking questions.
Still discovering what's possible.
And I don't intend to stop.
I don't believe there is an age at which we are finished becoming.
There is always another possibility.
Another lesson.
Another adventure.
Another dream.
Another chapter.
Your story isn't finished either.
WHY I COACH
I coach because I believe women are capable of far more than they often believe about themselves.
I don't see women as broken.
I don't believe they need to be fixed.
I believe that sometimes life has simply taught them to forget their own capability.
My role is to help them remember.
To help you look at your life with fresh eyes.
To question the beliefs you've accepted as facts.
To reconnect with what you want.
To imagine what might be possible.
To create a vision for the life you're moving toward.
And then to begin taking the actions that bring that vision closer.
I won't tell you what your life should look like.
You get to decide that.
I'll walk beside you while you discover it.
WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Maybe there is something you've wanted for years.
Maybe you've forgotten what it was.
Maybe you've convinced yourself it's too late.
Maybe you don't know what you want anymore.
Or maybe there's a quiet voice inside you saying:
There must be more.
Listen to it.
You don't have to know exactly how you're going to get there.
Begin with the vision.
Allow yourself to imagine.
Pay attention to the ideas that come.
Take the next aligned step.
And most importantly:
Believe that you are worthy of the life you envision.
Because you are.
YOU ARE CAPABLE.
MORE IS POSSIBLE.
And it's never too late to begin again.
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