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. Today’s topic is risk: What kind of risk (financial, emotional, physical) are you willing to take at 20 vs. 40 and how does the tolerance […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Self & Wellness’ category
It’s Not Easy Making A Decision to Do Nothing
Today’s post is some words of wisdom from a 40-something, mom, wife and consultant who has made many shifts in her life…some planned and others unplanned. Through her own shift from corporate life to consultancy, she became involved in a long term research project on workplace flexiblity. These are a few key things she knows […] Read more…
What Not to Miss Out on in Your Twenties
NEXT for Women Six Things 40-somethings Miss About Being Twenty-Something Last week 40:20 Vision answered a question for Next for Women, an engaging community for young professional women, from a 20-sometthing who wanted to make sure she didn’t miss out on the important things in her twenties. The 40:20 Vision panel chimed in with what they […] Read more…
How You Get Ahead When You Stop Comparing
In case you hadn’t seen this post about my learnings from yoga…applied to life, you can read it at The Huffington Post: How Yoga Taught Me to Grow Up and Stop Comparing“. I’m not a active “yogini” but listening more in the classes I do take has taught me the value of not comparing myself […] Read more…
Fail. Fail. Fail. Trust Me.
One 40-something woman’s message to 20-somethings on embracing failure. “Fail a lot in your twenties. I read a book in my twenties that was about not being afraid to fail and I never was. I came from a small town in Pennsylvania and I got an internship at MTV in New York. There were all […] Read more…
Itemize Your Fear to Help You Embrace Risk
Last night I went to a panel at the 92nd Street Y with my Flash Friday partner and 20-something bounty of perspective, Molly Ford of Smart, Pretty and Awkward. Always a fun 20:40 exchange! The panel touched on the “risks and rewards that we face when forging new paths” from women who pioneered in the […] Read more…
40-Somethings Look Back on Valentine’s Day
I reached out to some 40-something women to recall their favorite Valentine’s Day gift or reflect on how the importance of Valentine’s Day has changed over the years. No surprise, it’s significance has little to do with the commercialized holiday that we see everywhere around us. Many women recall what a simple and sweet […] Read more…
Links That Made Me Think This Week
Links that made me think this week (and that I didn’t get a chance to tweet:) Sheryl Sandberg: Luck, Resignation or Rallying Cry? A flurry of articles on Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook raised the noise on women in the board room to a new level. Yeah! What’s interesting to me is the breadth […] Read more…