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How to Find Deeper Meaning in Midlife: Even If You've Achieved "Success"
Are you ready to awaken your soul?
In this phase of life, if you’re anything like I was, you're likely just going through the motions, even after achieving what most would call "success".
Rest assured - you're part of the collective struggle GenXers are experiencing.
So what is going on in this period of our lives?
Carl Jung cracked this code years ago— “the two halves of life” to describe any human life's two major parts and tasks.
Most of us go there thoroughly unprepared.
We take the step into the afternoon of life almost blindly.
Worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our current truths and our ideals will serve us as previously.
“One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening become a lie”.
- Carl Jung
Here's the straight talk no one is giving you about growing wiser:
The first half of life is very self-centered, in other words, ego-driven—and necessarily so.
It's all acquisition... The hustle for career, family, and status symbols. We're building our "container," often mistaking it for our ultimate purpose.
But that's just to get you started.
In the second half of life, once you've created your ego structure, you finally have the courage to ask:
What is this all for?
What am I supposed to do with this?
Is it to protect it, to promote it, to defend it, or is there some deeper purpose?
The search for meaning is the task of the second half of life
For some reason, our society doesn’t explain this to us.
This “further journey’ is a well-kept secret.
Many people do not even know there is one.
Too few are aware of it, tell us about it, or know that it is different from the journey of the first half of life.
My mission is to do exactly that for you.
How?
Imagine a coaching experience so profound it doesn't just shift your direction but transforms your entire perspective on what the second half of life can be.
This is different from your typical coaching.
This is a journey designed to awaken the depths of your soul.
Time-sensitive opportunity:
Until this Sunday, June 30 at midnight EDT, I'm opening just two spots for the midlife women eager to embrace life's grand encore.
Will one be yours?
Warmly,
Vanja