Stepping WAY outside of your box!

I wish the Oprah Show was always as inspirational as it was yesterday! She brought on a few women who had been feeling midlife awful, with issues like divorce, single motherhood and job loss.   They were feeling helpless and hopeless, like victims in their own lives.  One women described herself as “paralyzed by fear.” Oprah gave Ali Wentworth the means to help these women step beyond their own internal limitations.  She introduced them to their new selves.   The women first tried a few rounds of roller derby, then took a sky dive together, and finally disrobed on a beach and ran naked.   You may be thinking “So what!”  If so, go try a few of these challenges and then get back to me.  Stepping outside of your own box changes lives! How do I know?  Believe me, I know a thing or two about stretching my comfort zone.  I left mine entirely back in 2004, and I’ve been living outside of it ever since!   First I started my own dating service after I lost my job.  I figured I needed a job and a date, so what the heck!  That led to an amazing new relationship.  Falling in love at 49 felt like a gigantic leap of faith!   Since then, I’ve tried out a few different but related careers: writing, editing, public speaking and life change coaching. I want to spend my time here on earth doing what I’m best at, and there’s only one way to find out what that is, experiment!  One thing is for sure:  I LOVE living outside of my comfort zone and I’m never going back into my BOX! To learn more about what I learned through my own transitions, please read my books: Midlife Magic: Becoming the person you are inside! and my Midife Change Workbook.