As each child grows and leaves the nest over a period of up to 10 years, the energy and resource committed to a growing family can leave you exhausted ... but at least relieved.
What will you do with all the spare time?
You're now getting that nagging feeling that you're not getting any younger. Health concerns suddenly come more to mind. A client came in and said that amazingly, over a short period of about 6 months, her eyesight just dropped away when reading, and another client had no real idea what a root canel was but since age 42 has now had two. Some things are beginning to wear out.
Yet it's too early to consider retirement - there's still a good amount of energy still there. And that's the great news: there's still time and depending on your perspective possibly more than you need.
Should you be looking at the future more positively or is it time to begin downsizing: this is an important working presumption; one of our clients ended up divorced because they could not agree on this starting point.
Certainly, we think that "where there's time, there opportunity.“
But with the realisation that there's less time, it means that we have to be very careful as to WHICH opportunities we pursue.
And we suddenly realise that there's plenty of time for the right things and that we have less time (and patience) to do the wrong things.
