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okay. Can you tell like a fuel in the tech today, baby? That's right. I have enthusiasm in my voice because today you and I are talking about the topic I absolutely love, and that topic is reinvention. I'm inviting you to climb in beside me and reimagine the road ahead.

And by the end of our conversation today, you're gonna feel inspired to take the wheel of your own life and turn IT in an exciting new direction. Now I have a ton of experience with reinvention because i've done at dozens of times in my own life and career, and sometimes i've been forced to reinvent myself because i've been fired or somebody I was dating, turnin said. I don't love anymore.

I've had to reinvent myself when I was strugling financially and couldn't pay my bills. And then there were those times when I was just tired, where I was, where I was sick of what I was doing, or honestly, kind of disgusted with who i'd become. And I knew deep down I was meant for more.

And IT was time to find the courage to stop thinking about what I wanted and actually take the steps to make the reinvention come true. For example, you know, me right now is a new york times by selling author, an award winning podcast, toast. But there were at least nine, nine different pittston s deep's and wrong turns on the road of life along the way that let me here like, for example, I waitress and bartender throughout college in last school.

That's probably where I got my gift for gab. My first real career was as a criminal defense attorney for legal aid, which ignited my passion for wanting to help people. I then worked in a corporate law firm, which, of course, made me feel like my soul was slowly dying.

My husband, I opened to paint your own part studio is a little side hustle. And that ignited my third for being a small business owner during the first stock come boom. In nineteen, nineteen ninety nine, I jumped into digital marketing.

Then I turned as a live coach with a professor at MIT. And I was around that time that I started hosting a radio show that LED to me, becoming a legal commentator for CNN. And then suddenly, my speaking career took off by complete accident.

I became a writer in an author. I hosted a daytime talk show at cbs. I launched a production company that is partnered with auto starbucks and linked in and created all kinds of cool projects.

And now i'm a podcast, toast, and this is just the things that i've reinvented in my career. Uni don't have enough time today for me to introduce you to all the various evolution of mell sina burger Robins. And that brings me to your first take away reinvention.

It's not about fixing something that's wrong. Reinvention is an opportunity. It's an opportunity for you to tap into your desires and to lean into your curiosity and find the courage to turn your life and career into exciting new directions.

Because as much as I love where I am right now in life, I love living in vermont, and I love, love talking to twice a week through the show, i'm sure i'm gonna reinvent my life in my career on the road ahead again. And today you're going to learn how to get started on doing that for yourself. And here's another takeaway that i'm going to give you right up front.

You are never starting from zero. See, you're starting with experience. Everything that you have done on the road of life or everything that you've learned so far.

It's onna help you with what you do next. And that's important because there is a flame inside of you. And if you're listening to the male Robin's podcast, I know exactly what's happening because you're writing to me about IT.

This flame inside of you is getting bigger and it's shining brighter. And yes, you do have the power to create a Better life for yourself. You do deserve to be happier.

And you, my friend, you are capable of not only dreaming big, you are capable of putting your head down and doing the work to make that happen. And that's i'm so excited about this episode because i'm going to give you an incredible metaphor that will help you understand the topic of reinvention for your own life. And you're going to hear me coach other listeners throughout this podcast that you have the step by step method for doing IT for yourself.

And please listen all the way to the end because i'm not only going to give you the step by step guide to doing IT, i'm going to leave you with a full tank of guess you see there is a woman named denies that you're going to hear at the very end of this conversation today. You have to hear her story. You know, he has been thinking about turning her life in a certain direction for twenty years.

And after simply learning everything i'm about to share with you, she's not only made the change, but in a matter of months, a whole new career has materialized. The freedom in her voice is available to you, and you'll be inspired, especially hearing from her, to create the same kind of happiness and success in your own life. Are right.

You ready? It's time for our road trip. To begin with, a question from a listener named Sarah. Here we go.

Hey, man, is Sarah. Can you talk about starting over at forty and being terrified doing IT? I turned forty last year in my life is not okay.

I've been in a toxic marriage for eleven years with a man who also has a lot of health problems. Hashtag guilt. I was laid off from a job I loved, and I have gained a crazy amount of weight.

That's just the icing on the cake. I don't even know where to start. I don't even know if I have ever been truly happy.

I would love to hear your advice on this topic. I want the second act of my life to be amazing. Help me. Well, thank you.

First of all, thank you to Sarah for doing the work for all of us. And I want to say one thing out of the gate, Sarah said that he is terrified of starting over. First of all, everybody, you're never starting over.

You're always starting from experience. This is so important for you to understand, just because you ve got laid off, just because you've ended a relationship, you're not starting from scratch. You have all the experiences, good and bad in your life that you can now use to reinvent and reimagine what the next chapter of your life looks like next.

And i'm seeing the same question that there is asking whether it's those of you in your twice that are writing and you've graduated from college and you have no idea how to begin creating the next chapter of your life or you're writing in at the age of thirty three and like Sarah, you've been laid off from your job. In fact, IT seems like everywhere I go at some point, everybody's kind of lean and over going. We just went through.

So you're not alone or maybe you're on the other side of this because so many people got laid off, you actually have been promoted. But now you're freaking out because you feel like you're an imposter in this role and you're not capable of handling IT or perhaps for fifty five, seeing a lot of these kinds of questions. Meal, I am now an empty nester.

I want this next chapter of my life to be incredible. And i'm starting to look at my spouse now if the kids are gone and i'm like, I don't know about this or maybe you just met the love of your life and it's unbelievable, but you are worried, terrified, in fact, that are going to screw up. So I want to talk about serious question globally because she's not the only one who's feeling kind of scared about this notion of what this next chapter might be SHE is that were terrified.

You don't have to be terrified. This is one of the greatest opportunities of your life. So if you want to change, you either want to step into your power when good things are happening, or you wanted, just look out on the road ahead and create an exciting new possibility for yourself.

You are listening to the exact thing that you need to hear. Now, ninety percent of the questions that i'm getting right now are about the topic of reinvention. How do I reinvent myself? How do I reinvent my life? You may not be using that word means, Sarah didn't.

But that is exactly what you and I are going to talk about today, because I want you to imagine a brand new possibility for your life. And if you like, Sarah can say, I want to be happy. I want the next chapter of my life to be amazing.

If you can just even start there, all you have to do is start to think about what kind of a map do you need in order to chart a course to make that possibility that you see for your life a reality. And I love this topic of reinvention. I love, I love, I love IT, because I have this metaphor that i've been using for years when IT comes to understanding reinvention.

And what is the metaphor? The metaphor that I use is our road trip. That's right, life is one big road trip. And we're gona use this metaphor of a road trip to dismissed fy, the entire concept and process of reinventing yourself or reinventing your life.

And for those of you that have listened to my number one ranked audio series on audible, called rein venture life, you have heard me talk about this metaphor. And this is such a powerful concept, because the fact is, life is a journey. It's one big road trip.

And for too many of us, that road trip is boring and monotone. And I want your life to be the most exciting, exhilarating, amazing road trip that you could possibly imagine. And every single year of your life is another mile marker on this twisting, amazing journey called life for me.

I at mile marker fifty four, that is how far down the road I am. And it's a useful exercise to think about IT that way because when I say to you, hey, I met mile marker fifty four, that tells me that there's a lot road that i've covered behind me. But guess what, there is a huge open road ahead of my.

And when you take responsibility for charting that course of where that open road is gonna lead you, you take control of your life. That's what reinvention is all about. It's about creating a map, picking a destination and charting your course on this road called life.

And here's what's exciting about that. You get to choose. You get to choose how fast you gonna drive, where you're going to take the highway, whether you're going to twist and turn, where you want to go next.

And so serious question was, now where do I start? We're gonna start by pulling over. And the reason why we're going to start by just mentally pulling over together for a second is because Sarah is literally describing her life as if he is driving through a hash heavy.

Rainstorm with hale dropping down, I mean, between the toxic husband and the way she's put on and getting laid off from her dream job. Holly smokes. It's like rain and sideways in your life right now, Sarah.

But that's okay. That's okay because we know that the rain doesn't last forever. We know that on the road ahead, they're going to be Sunny skies and there's gonna be big fluffy clouds and all kinds of amazing views, and you can make IT through this rain storm.

And so here's what we're gonna, though you can't possibly assess where you're going until you pull over for a second and you reflect on where you're at right now. And more importantly, where do you want to go next? I mean, think about the last time you got lost.

When you get lost as driving around help you find yourself, no, you gotta pull over. You gotta figure out where you are. You got ta consult the mile marker, you got ta look for landMarks, and then you ve got to figure out, okay, where are you going next? And so pulling cover is a mental strategy.

Visualize yourself right now just pulling off the road to life under the side for a second because you need that break for just a second. You need to hit the pause if you've been dealing with financial stress or you've been dealing with health issues. Because by pulling over for just a second, you're acknowledging what seriously saying you're onna hit the pause button on your life as IT is right now.

And we're going to take a second to collect themselves and then we're going to figure out the destination and where we want to go next. Now they were pulled over. We're going to talk about the next step to reinvention, and we will do that when we come back.

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Welcome back, I melt robbins. We are talking about the topic of reinvention, and we're using the metaphor of a road trip and what happens on a road trip? Well, lot of times you break down, a lot of times you get a flat tire. Lot of times there is a dear, and life is not going according to your plan. And that is exactly what has happened to a listener named jen.

Hi, it's jen. I'm struggling going through a break up and it's hard because I thought i've found the person that I was always spend on a smile life with. I was very happy, and I guess I thought I found my person.

But this break up is just fighting me with work. It's just a struggle. It's some. It's just a daily struggle to get up in, the daily struggle to address. I would just loves advice.

Thank you for being so honest about what you're dealing with. And what you're dealing with right now is A D tour on the road trip called life. That is what this is.

And all the tours in life, whether IT is a break up or it's the death of somebody that you love or lose a job, or just anything that happens that can happen in life, just anything that happens that takes you off the route that you thought you were gonna down. And in those moments, IT is important to pull over. IT is important to feel sad and to let those emotions rise up.

But you can't stay in that place. You can't allow IT. You know, if you get a flat tire, if you get into an accident, what do you do? You pull over, you fix the car and you move forward.

And that's what you have to do now you have spent enough time being sad. You have spent enough time lamenting what happened. You have spent enough time looking in the rear view mayor at this relationship. If you're somebody that is looking backwards, you're looking at the past, you're looking at the road behind you, and you spending way too much of your time and your energy wishing things were different, feeling sad about the miles that you've that you've already bent down and you wish you would done something different.

You wish you would have ended up you wish that here at twenty four, you would have measured in a different thing because that what like whatever IT is that you're doing that involves the review mere stop because you're not going that way. Think about the road trip analogy. Gy, there's a car on our road trip drive forward down the road.

Or do you go on a road trip by driving backwards? Are you getting my point? There's a reason why the windshields, a car is so much bigger.

Then the reviewing, you're not going backwards and you can drive forward if you're always staring in the review near. And so you did the right thing by feeling sad. You did the right thing by poland over.

But now it's time for you to look out the windshield, look at the road ahead. And here's what I want you to do. Stop and look at the open road.

Imagine if this deal that just happened, somebody that you're in love with broke up with you. That sucks. There's no way around IT. IT totally sucks, just like getting a flat tire sucks.

So what are you going to do about IT? What are you going to do about IT? Well, i'll tell you what I don't want you to do, because this is why you can't get out of bed.

You are telling yourself that this happened because there is something wrong with you. You're telling yourself that this happened because you're not worthy, because you're not good enough, and that is complete bulls shit. You wanna know why this happen? Let's go back to our road trip.

This happened because every single one of us has a completely unique and deeply personal journey that we take on this thing called life. And I choose to believe that whatever deal hits you, IT is a line with what's meant for you. I also deeply believe that the best years of my life are on the road ahead.

And if you can embrace those two truths, that every detour in life that does not go according to plan, it's not what you wanted. And there have been so many details in my life that have been painful, but I can see now how they were aligned with pushing me in the direction I needed to go, giving me the lessons that were aligned with my purpose, or the things that I needed to learn. In order to make the years ahead even Better, even happier, even more purpose.

You have to tell yourself that, because what's the alternative? The alternative is you feeling like a victim. You feeling as though you know you're never good enough nath's ever gonna work out, pull shit. This tour is not something you wanted. This detour is going to open you up to something that you needed.

I swear to god, when you start to think like that, when you grab the wheel of your life, when you take responsibility, not for the dear, but for how you're gonna navigate, what happens next, that when you happen to your power and you can do that. Jn, this isn't about some guy breaking your heart. This is about you discovering how to love yourself.

So here's what I want you to do. Clearly, you believe that finding your person is something that you need to do. So on a piece of paper right down all the things that this person does for you.

How do they make you feel? What are some of the things that they do for you, the kind of person that you're gna fall maddy deeply in love with? Now, all those things that you write down do them for yourself.

That is what this detour is trying to teach you, john, that the one person that you need to truly love and truly be in a relationship with your person, so to speak, you ready found that person and to you. And so I think that this deal is giving you the breakdown you needed so that you could strengthen your relationship with yourself. That's why this happened.

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Welcome back, my named smell Robins. I'm so excited you're here because we're talking up about the road trip called life, how you navigated, how you charged course, picking the proper destination to go to next and most importantly, having the kind of attitude that the best years of your life are on the road ahead, and at any single moment you can make a decision to take the wheel of your life and turn IT in a new direction. And that brings me to our next question from a listener name, mechano.

Hey, man, it's mean. My question for you is, what do you do when you feel blah? Everything is fine, life is going your way. Nothing bad is happening, but all of a sudden your stuck in the limbo of feeling absolutely nothing. In lexi ago, IT can last a few minutes or even days.

How do you push through and keep on keeping on? Right now, I want to withdraw from the world and recluse, but I have a family and Young kids that I don't get to see much because of my work schedule. So the time I have is very precious, and i'd rather not spend IT a gloomy guess. Have you felt like this before? 我 机智 是 给 他的 粉， thank you for everything.

Mechano a boy, my glad you asked me this question, because there is no way in hell I am going to let you stay in that bus space. And you just ask if i've ever felt that way before. Of course I have.

This is so Normal to have periods of your life where you feel blow, where you feel relaxed ago, where you just kind of have no energy. And there are a lot of words for this. People described this as feeling stuck, being a survival mode and coming out of the last two to three years.

So we've had researchers have given IT, the label languish. It's just sort of this black. Nothing's really wrong, but nothing's really right. You don't really have any enthusiasm.

And if I go back to our metaphor about life being one big long road trip, the way that I would describe IT is that you're just on autopilot right now. I try cruise control is on your rolling down the road of life. You're exhausted.

You're trying just to get to the next mile marker. Well, guess what? There's really, really good news here.

And the first thing that I want acknowledge you for is that you've already checked the box on step one for changing the situation and that is you recognize IT seriously, it's really important if you relate to what mechanic saying or you're going through the motions in life. You just sort of on autopilot, you're not really paying attention. Nothing's wrong.

Nothing's right. Your kind of blood, your kind of board. Step one is you got to check the box and say, om, that's me. I'm on autopilot and I don't want to be on autopilot anymore. Step two, you have to look ahead at that open road, and you must intentionally figure out a specific destination that makes you excited to drive tord in. One of my findest memories from childhood was the summer that my father rented a motor home and we did across country family road trip to hit as many national parks as we could.

And the big destination that my dad was like super excited about was we were going to reach yellowstone, and we were gna stay at that big log, yellowstone, and we are going to be able to see old faithful. So I remember you wanted know why that road trip was so exciting. IT was because we always had something on the road ahead to look forward to whether is the world famous corn palace, which was a stop or wall drug, or mount rushmore, we were inching our way, told the big destination, yellows stone.

But along the way, there are all these cool things on the road ahead that we were excited to check out. You need that in your life. And now some of this analogies starting to make sense, right? Because if you're staring in the review mirror, that's not exciting.

You not had in in that direction. If you look out at the open road and you don't see anything in front of you that you're excited about that a problem. And so here's the solution is counter intuitive, as IT may seem when you look out on the open road.

And for me, I always like to go in time travel about two years ahead because I think in twenty four months, you can chip away and make just about anything happen at plenty of time for you to start working for something. No, you have to get intentional about where you're headed next, about that destination of about your yellow stone, which had always been a dream of my father's to take his family there. And there is something that you dream about, and it's time to start dreaming big again, especially if you're feeling blaw.

And that there are three reasons why you have to pick into destination. And these are the same three reasons why having dreams matter. I've got super cal research to share with you about why this is so important when IT comes to your life and to your energy and to purpose and meaning and enjoying this world record life number one, big dreams, a new destination that you're gonna head towards having something out on the horizon that you're looking forward to, that you're working toward.

IT creates energy in your life, which is something that you're clearly missing. I can hear IT in your voice mechano IT creates excitement. IT gives you something to look forward to.

IT gives you a goal to work toward d and when you have this sort destination out there on the road ahead, just picking your head up out of the monotone of your data day life, IT creates momentum. And that forward momentum right out the front, on the road ahead, that so important because that's missing free right now, isn't IT. When you see more of the same, same old, same old, you got ta create an epic road trip.

And speaking of a new destination, a destination like a yellow stone, some out there, two, two years ahead. Now IT changes the way you see the world right now. It's very similar to opening up the APP itur on a camera to let more lighten new destinations on the role of life, open you up to more possibilities in your life.

Things are hard right now. I get IT. You got a lot on your plate. Well, guess what, two years from now, you can change just about anything. And when you start to open up to bigger dreams, you start to retrain and reshape your outlook, your mind, your attitude to be bigger and Better and more exciting than what you're dealing with right now.

The third thing that happens when you get very serious about grab in that wheel and cranking IT told a new destination, you're gonna suddenly, suddenly see all kinds of possibility and changes that you could make. See, this is the part where that blow feeling IT goes away really quickly. And i'm going to give you an example.

Then I want to talk about some research about why adding something exciting on the road ahead fixes that feeling of being on autopilot and shakes you free from that heavy blood language that you're in. Have you ever noticed that the moment that you plan a vacation, let's say you're gona take the kids to disney, you're onna get away. You immediately feel Better.

You're not even on vacation. Research shows that when you plan something like that, you get two bites at the excitement. Apple, the first one is just planning IT and having that trip to disney out on the road ahead because now you're excited because you're looking forward to IT in.

The second like boost that you get is when you actually go on the vacation. But the reason why it's so powerful to have something out in the future is just think about how IT impacts you before you go away. You're not even there yet.

It's a week before you're gna board the plane with your kids and go down to disney and you walk in to work on a monday. Your boss can pile work up to your eyeballs. Do you care? I think so.

why? Because disney is in your future, and that's pretty cool. So even the demands of your current data day, blood draining life, they don't get you down.

why? Because on the road ahead, you got sort and pretty cool that trip, just planning IT just visualizing IT just thinking about what's in your future IT boost your mood IT picks your thoughts up IT even helps you be more productive. And this is all simply because you intentionally put something out in the future, a new destination that makes you excited.

That's why this matter so much. And here's the other thing. I know what you're thinking right now.

Now I don't have time to ship a new destination, a trip to disney. I will. I work so much, I barely see my kids.

Well, I gotto hit you with some research because particularly when you're exhausted and overwhelmed and IT feels like something needs to give. Guess what? We tend to feel like we just need to break from at all.

But the research proves something very counter intuitive, because when you're overwhelmed, like mechanic, is when you're feeling checked out blood, you're on autopilot, creigh control, you're just kind of zoned out in life. Do you know what you need? You need engagement.

You need to add energizing activities to your schedule. And when you do that, something oraculous happens. You feel like you have more time.

I know this is bananas, but let me just kind of unpack the study for you. This was done by Laura vander cam. SHE writes about IT in this essay in the new york times.

There's a Better way to recall laim your time than quiet quitting. SHE did a study in twenty twenty one or SHE worked with super busy people just like you who feel exhausted and tapped out. The people in our study said things like life feels very chaotic with so many different polls in the air.

Same my work to do list is never ending. I bet you can relate to that. Or how about this one? I need a few more hours each day in order to have time to just manage my family, and my life wouldn't happen.

nice. Well, what he did over the course of nine weeks, this is really interesting. Instead of asking people to scale back or have Better boundaries between work and life, you know what he taught them to do. SHE taught every one of these folks that are is busy and is burnt out as you, that you need to add something, whether you're building in regular physical activity or you're building in a new little adventure or your putting something that requires effort, but it's meaningful to you that you choose action over no action.

So for example, instead of just passing out on front of the couch and watching your favorite series, pick up a book and read a novel instead, SHE also introduced people as busy as you to this principle of take one night for you. And that just means commit for a few hours once a week to doing something you enjoy. IT can be work related, not with your family, but just for a few hours each week.

Instead of doing less, add something and join, acquire a softball team. And here's what's amazing about IT when it's something you're interested in doing even though you look at your schedule right now and it's a giant puzzle and you're like, I cannot add one more thing to this thing alone. And you can because when you sign up for something that matters for you, you commit to doing IT.

IT nudges you to figure out the logistics to arrange the child care to get your spouse or a friend or a family member to cover for you, even if life feels so busy that you can't even contemplate such a thing right now. And IT works, IT works, the participants center studies, even though their schedules when they began the study, or just as overwhelming as yours, when they committed to doing something like just singing in the church quire. You know what? They're reported that their time felt more abundant.

This is the disney effect that i'm talking about. This is like picking your head up out of a monotask part of the road trip and seeing, oh wow, every minute we're getting closer and closer to yellowstone, oh wow, I got church choir this week. I got my pickup soccer league this week.

I got the two dering that i'm going to do as a volunteer this week. IT reenergize you. And in fact, people even reported making more progress at work, finding more time with their family.

They had an increase of energy and ageing that spill out into all areas of their life. You know, the fact is we all have the same hundred and sixty eight hours every single week. But here's the thing about time.

And it's also true about the journey of life. Your relationship to time and your relationship to where you are in life is also about the stories that you're telling yourself. Your life is always going to be filled with to do this.

But when you add something that you actually want to do, that the secret, you gotta add something that means something to you. What happens is when you add that in and IT competes with your to do list, time feels different. You feel more in control of your life because you're saying, I know I always should, I want to do.

But guess what? I'm making IT to quire. I'm making IT to tutoring. Here's another study from just a few years ago that I think is really fascinating. So they took university students, and they divided them into two groups.

One group of students were told they could leave class fifteen minutes early, so they gave them fifteen minutes of extra time. The other group was asked to stay fifteen minutes longer and help edit at risk high school students essays. You wanna know who felt like they had more time? The kids who took fifteen minutes to edit IT those high school students essays? why? Well, logically, IT doesn't make any sense, does IT.

Because we literally gave the other students fifteen extra minutes. But what do they do with that? Nothing meaningful. They probably like walked over to the cow or SAT around and scroll through social media. What happens to you when you intentionally spend time doing a rewarding and engaging activity, your time feels less scarce? That's pretty freaking cool.

And when you put time into something that is meaningful to you, or you find energizing your whole narrative about your life and your power changes, you no onto feel like your life is a slog. I do this all the time. I probably somebody from the outside that you think is one of the busiest people, you know, and I am.

And there's that saying, you want something done, ask a busy person because they figure out how to fit things in. I am doing this seventy five day chAllenge, seventy five part. Why not? Because I have a lot of extra time, but because I know that when I add something in that matters to me, IT levels up all areas of my life.

I find time when it's important and there's something about getting really disciplined and excited about doing something for yourself, even though your super busy that does spill out into the other areas of your life. In fact, my husband, Chris, right now, he's getting a masters and spiritual psychology. Does he have time to do that? No, god is a hospital volunteer.

Not as he is busy launching a new program for his mansor treat called the degree he doesn't have time to do that, but actually he does because he is making the time. I have seen this research work in my own life. I am telling you as counterintuitive as IT sounds.

Please look at the road ahead. The best days of your life are ahead of you. You have to start dreaming big right now.

IT creates this upward spiral. You can do this. I started the very beginning by saying, there is a flame burning inside you.

There is, you know that you can feel that, you know that you're meant for more. You know, you are not supposed to be broken down on the side of the road on this road trip called life. And I think we underestimate how quickly you can turn your life in a new direction.

We spend so much time thinking it's not possible. We put so much energy into our excuses and our fears. And when you get to a point where you can say, i'm done feeling this way, I want this to feel good.

I want to turn my life in a new direction. IT is amazing how quickly things can happen. And so I want you to hear from a listener to this podcast named Dennis, who had been thinking about doing something for twenty years as she's going down the road of life deep within her.

The flame that was burning was, I would love to be a voice over artist. I would love to do that. And for twenty years, he thought about turning her life in a new direction, just thought about IT, just like you keep doing. And then SHE finally pulled over. SHE charted in a new course, and he did, and check out what happened.

I have had a dream of being a voice server artist for twenty freaking years. I felt like a part of me died each day in monday ninety five. And it's the sense of loss of a life unlived and unfulfilled.

Just knew I cannot settle anymore. And now i'm reflecting. On the past six months, I set a goal to have a live voice over A C X profile by june thirteen th, so I could narrow books in the profile.

Didn't go alive until August. I wasn't harder myself, but celebrated what I did do, actually taking and posting a photo of myself and taking action steps. Just today, I received my second nursing job.

So there are now two books in the works. I have three more additions being reviewed. I am auditioning for commercials and reaching out to potential points with plans to be a full time, thriving voice over artist by this time next year.

So grateful for all the support and the lessons i've learned. Wow, i'm a happier, more committed to my dreams person with infused energy, drive and excitement. I know the best is yet to be. Thank you well, and your team.

I'm just basking in the sound of a person's voice who is fulfilled because SHE got serious about what he wanted her life to look like. He did that in six months. And this is something SHE was thinking about for twenty years.

You only get one life. And what did he said is, right, living on autopilot. That is a life unlived and unfulfilled. You do have dreams, and you do deserve to make this next leg of the journey of this thing called life as exciting and as amazing as you possibly can. So pull over, assess where you are.

Remember, do not stare with a real view, mayor, but focus on the windshield because you're going forward, my friend, remind yourself that the best years of your life are on the road ahead. And I promise you, you will travel far beyond what you can currently see because one day, this epic road trip that we call life, it's gonna over. And if what everybody who has approached that final leg of the journey says is true, it's gonna happen for you and me in the blank of an eye.

So please find the courage to create a new course for your life, find the courage to take the wheel and steer IT in whatever direction your heart desires, and find the courage to enjoy IT. And in case nobody else tells you, I love you, I believe in you and I believe in your ability to create a Better life. And I guess i'll see you on the road. I told you this would be a job.

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