Feeling Fabulous at 50
I have high hopes for turning 50. People say that childhood is the Happiest time of your life, but I think it’s the opposite for me. The older I get, the Happier I get.
As I get older, the less I give a flying f*ck what others think. I’d love to reach the point where I give zero f*cks, but I’m not quite there yet.
I was talking to Regan, one of the Happiness Club tribe, about this shortly before I turned 50. She mentioned that she was “creeping closer to 40” and said she was “wondering what the hell she’d just done with the previous decade and feeling lost about how the hell to do the next one”.
This got me thinking about how we can make the most of a big birthday and use it as a time for reflection and goal setting. It’s always useful to reflect on what we’ve achieved and make plans for the future and a milestone birthday is a particularly good time to do that.
Reflection
A special birthday is the perfect opportunity to reflect on what we’ve achieved in our lives so far, and particularly in the last decade. Focusing on our achievements is great for our self-esteem. It’s good to focus on what we have done, rather than what we haven’t.
If you’re finding it difficult to come up with things, maybe ask a friend, your partner, or a coach to help you with this.
Do an Angel Card Reading
You could do a Celtic cross spread angel card reading for guidance about what you need to know to get the most of the next ten years. Angel cards and other oracle cards are available on Amazon and in most book shops. They come with guidebooks and are fairly self-explanatory. Alternatively, you could book a reading with an angel card reader or tarot card reader.
I’m sure it’s no coincidence that just after I wrote this post Reiki Rachael posted a Life Review Energy Activation to her YouTube channel. This video can help you to “gain clarity on past, present, and future”. (On a side note, was the coincidence a result of divine intervention or the Google (YouTube) algorithm? Maybe a bit of both).
Planning
A big birthday is a great time to make exciting plans for the future. Where do you see yourself in one year, five years, and ten years’ time?
You could use the exercises in chapter one of Happiness Club: Learn to Be Happy and Get What You Want to design your dream life or attend the free design your dream life masterclass.
Once you’ve designed your dream life you can take baby steps every day or every week that move you closer to living that life. In the Happiness Club online membership programme we’ll be setting and achieving our goals in the weekly coaching sessions and holding each other accountable.
What about you? Have you recently had a big birthday, or have you got one coming up? What have you achieved in the last decade? What are your plans for the future? Let me know in the comments.
I’m Samantha Brook.
I’m a Happiness blogger and coach.
I am the Amazon #1 bestselling author of Happiness Club: Learn to Be Happy and Get What You Want.
I empower people who are fed up with feeling fed up to take action to feel Happier and Get What They Want.
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This post was originally written for Happiness-Club.co.uk.
