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“No relationship will work in the long run unless you allow it to move at the pace of the person moving most slowly.” –– 40-something, Washington, DC There’s a tendency in our youth to put things on a “track” and think life is going to move on our terms. Set goals for sure, but the […] Read more…
Herewith, three “gifts” this 40-something woman would give a 20-something if she were a “Forty-Godmother”. What are yours? ~1~ To be able to say no without guilt. ~2~ To learn how not to take no for an answer. ~3~ To know when not to say no. Take some risks and embrace a little fear into […] Read more…
Today is Flash Friday – when 40:20 Vision tackles an issue from both the 40-something and 20-something perspective. Joining me on this mission is Molly Ford of Smart Pretty and Awkward. We’ve had a great response to this month’s topic of how family relationships change from 20 to 40. It’s certainly something every woman can relate […] Read more…
I have started writing a series of posts for The Daily Muse on finding your career path. It will tell the story of how a variety of 40-something women arrived at their career success. While for some it’s a zig and others a zag, what we most often find is that we end up merging […] Read more…
“The best thing about being twenty-something is that you have the priveledge and freedom of being an adult without any of the responsibilities. You need to feed yourself and support yourself, but you don’t have to support anyone else. The worst thing is that you don’t have a true sense of yourself. I was at […] Read more…
As it comes time to make resolutions…think about adding slow down to the list. We all feel the pressure to achieve some imaginary “to-do” list. There’s a sense that we only have a window of time in our 20s to accomplish so much. Sometimes that leads to rushing into things or choosing a path before […] Read more…
This “what I know now” advice is from a woman who was finally able to move on from a relationship that she realized wasn’t right. It’s hard to decide to go when you care for someone and everything seems right except the feeling in your gut. She realized that not wanting to hurt someone is not […] Read more…
Some great advice from a 40-something …for 2012 spend more time thinking about what you do have than what you don’t have. “My 20s…it was all about what I didn’t have, what I could have, what I needed to have. And now it is more about ‘wow, I’m so lucky’ and feeling constantly […] Read more…