When new vistas beckon later in life, we can often feel paralyzed by possibility. Certified life coach Ann Imig has studied how we can literally change our minds and find the strength and wisdom to make the jump. Listen here.
If you’re a certain age and have the motive and opportunity for a life change but aren’t sure where and how to jump, Ann Imig has studied some data-driven techniques for getting unstuck. After careers in theater, writing, and ad sales led her to create Listen To Your Mother, Ann finally realized a long-held desire, marshaled her diverse skill set and MSW degree, and became a career and life coach.
Ann’s main takeaway as the youngest child in a multiple-marriage, “nutso family system” is that she had lots of adults who loved her. This helps explain her affinity for the Positive Intelligence program, which helps people assess their behavioral patterns and determine when it might be useful to try the opposite.
It’s especially helpful for those who over-rely on external validation or hyper achievement for their self worth, pin their hopes on the illusive thought that “I’ll be happy when,” and wonder if they’ll ever feel curious again. As she did.
To improve our lives, we fifty-somethings often need to shift five decades of obsolete instinct and get our brains out of our own way. We talk about how possible that is, along with the influence of Martin Seligman, drawing out celebrations in order to savor them, and life as a JewBu.
When The Flames Go Up is an excellent community of later-stage parents, with a podcast by Magda Pecsenye and Doug French. “After we divorced, we started a blog about co-parenting to learn how to work together until our kids were grown. And now that they are, and the world is so busy disrupting and disavowing what we thought we were working for, we’re looking to our community to help us all keep up.”
Listen to more podcast conversations with life coach Ann Imig here.