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5 Tips for Internal Spring Cleaning (the Gen X Way)
Spring is finally upon us! And with it comes renewed hope for making changes this year.
While many folks use spring to focus on external spring cleaning, it’s also a great time to do some internal spring cleaning that can support you in making a shift.
Here are five tips tailor-made for Gen X’ers to do some internal spring cleaning.
3 Tips for Gen X’ers to Find Presence While Moving Toward Goals
For a generation that grew up wanting to find more balance, Generation X often struggles to find more ease and presence on the path to achieving our goals. Whether it’s saving for retirement, starting our own business, or trying to lose some weight, Gen X’ers are as much a victim of our American “hustle” culture as every other generation.
In using “hustle” to pursue our worthy goals, we often lose sight of ourselves, the present, and the journey. Consequently, if/when we reach our goals, we’re underwhelmed, burnt out, or already asking “what’s next?”
So, how do we move toward our goals in a way that allows us to be more present, doesn’t burn us out, and truly appreciate the journey rather than the destination?
Here are three tips that you can use right now.
Uncertainty Bites: How Gen X Can Find Confidence, Courage, and Clarity Through Life Transitions
Like most of the world, Gen X'ers are facing a lot of uncertainty. But the uncertainty that Gen X'ers are facing now seems to have a particular "flavor." It's an uncertainty that has crept in with all the deceptiveness of the intro to a Spandau Ballet song.
This uncertainty has a bit more bite to it.
And in the face of that uncertainty, we can begin to feel restless, hopeless, in despair, or even apathetic.
So how do we face the uncertainty that comes with these natural life transitions?
Here are some tips for harnessing the power of confidence, courage, and clarity to navigate those choppy waters.
7 Tips for Sustainable Physical Well-Being in Our 40s and Beyond
It's time for Gen X'ers to embrace a more holistic approach. One that focuses on overall physical well-being, rather than external notions of "fitness."
So, if you're a Gen X'er who's struggling with your "fitness" through your 40s and 50s, here are 7 tips to help you develop a more holistic approach to physical well-being that may help you find motivation, joy, and ease in your journey . . . and maybe help you reach those tangible results too!
Is GenX Comfortably Numb? A Simple Practice to Get Comfortable with Feelings
There’s a general stereotype that GenX’ers are aloof, gruff, snarky, sarcastic, and champions of “tough love.”
Whether that stereotype is justified or not, and whether you identify with that stereotype or not, there’s one thing that I feel was true for me and other GenX’ers I know who grew up in the 70s and 80s:
We weren’t raised to understand or value our feelings and emotions.
Learn why it’s important to connect to our feelings and a quick practice to help you do just that!
Embracing 52: 8 Tips for GenX’ers Making Another Trip Around the Sun
February 7th is my 52nd birthday.
And, as I tend to do every 365 days, I like to pause and reflect on what I've learned thus far in life, what I want to leave behind, and what I hope to experience going forward.
So this year, I want to pass my reflections onto you, my dear GenX'ers (along with some quotes from other badass GenXer's).
When It Ain’t Workin’, Try the Costanza Approach: Do the Opposite
If you’re like most GenX’ers, then you’ll remember this classic Jerry/George exchange from a Seinfeld episode in 1994:
Jerry Seinfeld: “If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”
George Costanza: “Yes, I will do the opposite. I used to sit here and do nothing, and regret it for the rest of the day, so now I will do the opposite, and I will do something!”
How many of you are banging your head against the wall doing the same thing over and over again, wondering why it’s not working? And then, weeks, months, or years later, you end up regretting that you’re still in the same place, banging your head against the wall?
Read more to learn how the Costanza approach could help you stop banging your head against the wall.
7 Quotes to Guide GenX Through Transitions in Our 40s and Beyond
If there’s one word that summarizes this stage of life for GenX’ers, it’s “transitions.”
Whether you call this stage “midlife,” “middle life,” “middle age,” “prime of my life,” or “who cares what it’s called,” something about the transitions we’re experiencing right now hits differently than transitions from other stages of our lives.
So to guide us through this chart-topping list of transitions in your 40s and beyond, I’ve curated a list of nostalgic quotes from other GenX’ers or our formative childhood years.
GenX Ins and Outs for 2024 (It’s not what you think)
As a salty GenX’er, let me tell you what’s definitely “in” for the year: doing my own thing. So, that means that what’s “out” for the year is giving a crap about what other people think is “in or out.”
For the Generation raised to scoff at expectations and what everyone else is doing, I personally don’t feel that other people’s “ins/outs” lists hold any weight for me.
What does hold a lot of weight for me though, is my own “ins/outs” list.
The GenX Midlife Career Crisis Survival Guide: 4 Steps
There’s something in the air that I’ve noticed…
both because I experienced it personally in my mid-40’s, and now I see many other GenX’ers in their 40’s and 50’s experiencing it.
There’s a feeling…a stirring…a restlessness.
And the place that so many GenX’ers seem to be experiencing this feeling most intensely is in their careers. It’s called a midlife career crisis…
and here’s your Survival Guide for navigating it.
A Love Letter to the Exhausted 40/50-Year-Old Women
This love letter first came to me as a tribute to a dear friend. A dear friend who’s lost the connection with her partner, with the life she wanted, and — most of all — with herself. And as I thought of my friend, I realized that my friend was me…that she is many of my friends…that she is many women in their 40s and 50s…and that many of us can see ourselves in each other and in our stories. So, this is a love letter to all the exhausted women in their 40s and 50s.
Navigating Childlessness in Your 40s and 50s: A GenX Perspective
GenX is often viewed as the generation that reinvented adulthood. And along the way, many GenXers now find themselves Childless Not By Choice. This article explores what it means to be CNBC and how GenXers can use our unique generational traits to navigate being childless in our 40s and beyond.
Am I Just an Accidental Human With No Legacy
I was maybe 7 or 8 years old when I realized that the time between when my parents got married and when I was born was less than nine months. Growing up, that realization never bothered me and I never felt like an accident. But, the notion that I was an accidental human took on a different flavor as I got older and started to feel the pang of existential questions like “what is my purpose?” I felt that I had to justify my accidental existence by leaving a big legacy.
16 Bullshit-Free Tips to Connect to Your Purpose in Your 40s/50s
A lot of GenX’ers I know — myself included — hit their 40s or 50s and start to wonder:
Who am I? What am I doing with my life? Is this all there is?
This post gives you 16 tips—that aren’t BS—that you can start using TODAY to find your purpose in your 40s and 50s.
What is Mindfulness? (Most People are Getting it Wrong).
“What is mindfulness?” That’s a question I get asked a lot. And in my experience, many people (understandably) are getting it wrong. So let me set the record straight by sharing 3 insights about what mindfulness is.