My Journey as a Midlife Coach
Like everyone, from the moment I was born I couldn’t halt aging. Even before I took my first breath, my aging clock began ticking.
The race was on—I had to reach goals, accomplish milestones, get ready, and equip myself for the journey of life. Starting with gradual, minor but basic achievement, and expanding to more crucial implementation.
I smiled for the first time—mission accomplished; I started to crawl—check off another milestone. And so on and so on, from kindergarten graduate to elementary school, from learning to drive to earning a college degree. Then marriage, family, and a series of professional goals. I mastered more and more tools and skills that I added to my personal and professional arsenal, ready for use.
I believe that making progress is essential to the livelihood of human beings.
The moment I come to realize that I can’t make today better than yesterday and that my ability to become better has ceased to exist will be the moment that will extinguish my motivation to push forward.
When I entered the stage of midlife, I came to the conclusion that midlife is the time to flip the coin. I realized that the time to harvest the crops that materialized from birth and throughout life has finally arrived.
Physical abilities and sharpness of the mind already fall short of obtaining levels of top performance. But that is in correlation to a shift in direction that midlife brings. Nature is directing us to adopt a new approach—having achieved maturity, it is time to use our personal qualities, knowledge, and skills to promote and polish the present. To slow down our efforts to build new expertise and start enjoying the ones we already have.
On my own midlife journey, I want to take advantage of my new life focus. I want to maximize the opportunities ahead of me—and help you do the same. As a midlife coach, I share productive insights and conversations, creative ideas and helpful guidance. I hope to promote an elite midlife for us all, so we can each achieve the most that our best years have to offer.
Sincerely yours,
Efie Vogel (CPA,MBA)