Early Signs Of A Midlife Crisis
I purchased a notebook back in 1996. All my ideas and thoughts were written down in that little book that now creates a historical ‘time capsule’ (wooooo!) of my life eleven or so years ago.
I looked at it again other day and found a mind-map I did whilst on holiday (which happens to be about 20 minutes from where I now live).
Titled “Out Of Control” It shows that I was pretty fed up with how things were going for me and most of all, had a lot of things that were bothering me that I seemed not to find the time to resolve.
One comment says, “Work is stifling me”. Another says, “New Adventure - travel”
What do I take from this? well it seems to me you can keep on being disillusioned about your life and wanting to get on and do something else for a long time, but it wont go away until you do something about it.
Take control of your life and make plans for change today. Don’t leave your life in the hands of others to make those choices for you.
You risk loosing the opportunity of your life to make something of it and find out what will make you fulfilled as a person.
Don’t leave it too late. My first frustrations were written down over eleven years ago now. Today I am working hard to make that dream become a reality.
One day I hope it will but it will take time, so my recommendation to you is to start today. Do something today that will make your dream a little nearer. Keep it up. Every day do something. Keep a notebook and write your ideas out and give yourself some actions to do.
If you don’t you risk ending up making your life change turn into a midlife crisis.
Here’s a pic of my notebook. There are four other smaller mind maps that took these ideas further as well.
It just goes to show you how complicated our lives can become. We eventually have to fight to find some time to work out what we really want to do with ourselves.
Take a look below.
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Filed under: Career Change, Life-Style Change, Mid-Life Crisis
Thanks for this. But, I think that you miss some of the more obvious symptoms of impending crisis:
http://caughtinthemiddleman.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/mid-life-crisis/
HI Middleman, thanks for commenting. This article is about some early signs of my own midlife crisis. Its not meant to be a definitive description of early signs of a midlife crisis, but more my own. I do have some scribbles on that page about sports cars somewhere :O)
Best wishes
Guy