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Hey ,

It’s not only never too late to have a happy childhood (thanks to author Tom Robbins), but it’s also never too late to fill-in-your-blank at 50.And, this part is critical, no matter what anyone else says. Not the world or your head.We’re told that it’s impossible for women over 50 to change careers. That no one will hire us, that we shouldn’t risk a steady paycheck, that we’re stuck in our career paths.It’s true that changing careers at fifty is scary. I would know. I’d been an employee since I was 21, getting a paycheck every two weeks. Then at 45, about to turn 46, my younger sister and I started Handel Group. When I realized what it meant to really be an entrepreneur, to have to get out there and sell or not make money, you know what action I took?I cried. I too believed the hype..And you know what my baby sister, who’d been an entrepreneur for years already, did?Fine...after she snort-laughed? She used her method on me. Method? What method?In The Handel Method, developed and taught at MIT, Stanford School of Business, and NYU, the first assignment we give each and every client (myself included), is to write their dreams for 12 different areas of their life.From the more obvious areas, like career, money, body, love, and family, to the less obvious, like relationship to yourself, home, and friendship, to the potentially stepped over-ed areas, like fun and adventure, time, community and contribution. Seems, the older we get, the worse we are at dreaming...As kids, if I asked you to tell me what you want, you were prolific.As adults, we tend to let ourselves dream only what we can have. At 50, the best many of us can muster is hoping our triceps don’t jiggle.Except if we don’t admit what we want, do we have to do anything but bitch, excuse, blame the state of the world, the pandemic, and our age for why we can’t have what we want? 

Talk soon,Beth Handel