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Posted: 2016-06-20T10:00:23Z | Updated: 2016-12-19T23:33:53Z 6 Essential Steps To Redefine Your Life After 50 | HuffPost

6 Essential Steps To Redefine Your Life After 50

So life isnt panning out the way you hoped...
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OK my Wonderful Wild Women -

Lets get straight to the heart of it.

You are in your 40s, 50s or 60s and are feeling stuck, you have tried several things to move on but it just hasnt worked.

You feel stuck and lacking the vibrant self you know is inside. Life isnt panning out the way you hoped.

Drifting around the edge of life feeling as if you are unseen and unheard, you still have hope but dammit - its just not happening.

All the coping tools you have built up during your life that worked perfectly well up to this point are now totally useless! Nothing is working..

Your angels have left the building - Guides? what guides!! Theres none there to help you get through this crap except you.

Its time to get the guts-up and stand-up and put those hard-learned skills to good use.

This calls for strength, passion, determination, grit and so much humour it hurts.

You have hit MIDLIFE, you may be divorced, married or single, your kids have left and you are feeling lifeless and lost!!

Im going to offer you several steps to get through this time of turmoil.god help us - we need it (some help that is).

STEP 1: LET GO OF YOUR PREVIOUS PERSONAL EXPECTATIONS!

Your married life is changing (or gone completely), your job or business is not making you happy any more, your kids are or have grown up , left home and are not asking you where their socks are any more, its time for you to LET GO!

1. Let go of filling your time in with tasks for your kids (who are no longer there, can make their own lunch and dont answer the phone when you call them anyway)

2. Redefine what your job is giving you - and ask for more! Im not talking money here - but thats always a nice idea - Im talking fulfilment, enjoyment, camaraderie and recognition. If this means having to find somewhere that does offer what you desire - so be it.

Be bold and daring

STEP 2: DREAM!

You know you want to.

Dream of the things you REALLY want for your future - now that the kids are gone and you dont have to organise family holidays - which are fun! BUT, that time is now over..its time to switch the preferences and make you the priority.

Just think..

  • art galleries,
  • booking a flight to a distant country,
  • staying with indigenous tribes in another country,
  • a bike ride and take a tent!

The dreams are endless - its time to embrace the possibilities!

Theres no need to NOT do something youd love to do. Its time to move.

TAKE A RISK!

STEP 3: THROW OUT YOUR STUFF (and give theirs back to them).

We keep all their school stuff, our family photos and other important things - but there comes a time when we can give them to who they belong.

Go through all your drawers and give away or throw out things that of no relevance to your new, unfettered life. You can downsize your home , have less furniture AND leave space for your new life.

STEP 4: ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR BEAUTY

You may have a few wrinkles, sunspots, a few scars even The legs may have a few lumps and bumps that just dont leave. Your arms might be a bit saggy in places..but

YOU are INSIDE!

Not in your arms, legs, skin. Not in your families opinion. Not in the medias expectations!! You are you - and always will be - always have been and are that person right now.

Youve never changed but you have managed to cope in a very difficult situation and come out on top. Theres no need to go back and stay in the past - there is a need to move forward and jump into the icy lake of breathtaking beauty to jumpstart your heart again.

To feel the beauty you are infused with and emanate.

Glow with your glory and bathe in your light.

STEP 5: BE YOUR OWN INSPIRATION

Think big and think back

Remember what you loved as a child? the joy?

THIS is your opportunity to pioneer yourself into the person you love and respect.

Inspire your own being, be excited!

Allow your own thoughts and dreams to give your body a shiver of expectation!

Believe in your own disbelief at how simply possible it is to have the things

you have always dreamed of....andIm talking true freedom and confidence in your own abilities.

YOU CAN DO THIS!

STEP 6: LOOK UP!

Stand tall, throw those shoulders back, swing those hips.

Be large and look people in the eye.

Show your love, but not your pity

Show your peaceful and strong heart, but not your pain.

You are the woman you dreamt of being,

You are a warrior, a wise woman.

You owe no-one your downward looks, your feelings of betrayal or your

bitterness and grief at getting older - its no ones faultit just is and its

ours.

YOU owe the world your knowledge and understanding - this is yours to

share with confidence and joy.

These are your 6 steps to wonderful midlife womanhood (You can

always add more!)

Embrace these and you will give yourself the permission to be who you are - not who you think you should be.

Find out more of my story at www.BeInspiredLiving.com . Keep in touch on my Facebook Page .

Before You Go

7 Celebrity Dads Who Embraced Fatherhood After 50
Hugh Grant(01 of07)
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The British heartthrob has had a string of high-profile relationships over the years. But in 2011, at 51, Grant finally became a first-time father . Fast forward to 2016 and Grant is a father of four.

Grant has said fatherhood has made him "much nicer ."
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Rod Stewart(02 of07)
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For the legendary crooner, fatherhood has been the journey of a lifetime. Stewart's oldest daughter, actress Kimberly Stewart, is 36, while his youngest is just 5.

"I've got eight children and I think I am appreciating it more now in old age than I ever did before. I really cherish those moments," Stewart said in an interview earlier this year.
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Michael Douglas(03 of07)
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At 56, Douglas became a father again to his second son. A daughter followed soon after.

Douglas' wife Catherine Zeta-Jones says a second chance at fatherhood has meant he's able to spend more time with the children. Douglas has said he was more career-oriented when his oldest son, Cameron, was growing up.

"There's no way to articulate or define the joys of fatherhood," Douglas said in a 2014 interview with People . "It's just a gorgeous, wonderful feeling of unequivocal love."
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Ronnie Wood(04 of07)
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Last month, the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood became a father again, to twin girls. Wood, at 68, is now a father of six.

And he won't be a hands-off dad to the newborns. Before their birth, Wood gushed that he'd be changing diapers and hoped one day his kids would go on tour with him.

"Im unbelievably lucky and unbelievably blessed. I love all my kids," Wood told HELLO! . "I love being a dad and to have this happening is just wonderful. I'm a lucky guy."
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Alec Baldwin(05 of07)
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Baldwin has been adding to his brood with wife Hilaria. In addition to his 20-year-old daughter, Baldwin has become father to two more little ones in his 50s. And just earlier this year, they announced they'll be expecting another bundle of joy soon.

He's called fatherhood in his 50s a "second chance ."
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Stevie Wonder(06 of07)
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At 64, the singer became a father for the ninth time! Wonder actually has grandchildren older than some of his younger children.

He's said being a father is about guiding his children while still being a friend.
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Quincy Jones(07 of07)
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Jones has seven children , but his youngest was born just shy of his 60th birthday.

He's said to have been a more involved parent with his youngest, saying he's doing "pretty good" with the whole fatherhood thing.
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