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It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life career awakening!

Perhaps you’ve noticed that certain things in your life don’t fit anymore. Your pants, job, career choices, partner, routine, car, are all feeling a little snug, more exhausting, less fulfilling. This constriction may feel like a crisis because of your responsibilities, kids, health, mortgage, financial responsibilities. The urge may to be run and/or splurge until you feel better but  In reality nothing is wrong, you are experiencing a natural winter in the cycle of life.

We have been raised to believe that life is linear comprised of a series of events that fall like dominos in perfect rhythm. The story we are told goes like this... We are born, go to school, get a job, get married, have kids, work some more, retire and die. If we fall off of that preordained line of life either because we get sick, divorced, fired, skip kids, have children, avoid college, never retire, then we spend most of our time trying to desperately get back on the assembly line of life. Only there’s one problem with this belief system... It’s false. There is no line. Not anywhere. Not in life. Not in nature. 

If you are experiencing the signs of a natural transition then all you really need to do is embrace what is coming and get really, really curious about what is next for you. The Career Wisdom Institute, can help you clarify your next move, open up new job options, explore the entrepreneur world and most importantly, help bring deeper meaning and purpose back into your work and life overall.

There is no crisis unless you resist that which needs to happen naturally. Join the Career Wisdom Institute as we end overwhelm and bring meaning back to work.
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