FLIPSIDE OF MIDLIFE®️: YOUR MID-YEAR RESET

This is the third of four episodes that guide you through a mid-year process similar to what I use instead of New Year’s resolutions.

Once you’ve spent time in the reflect and review phases, it’s time to reset. This is where you choose the stepping stones that give you a solid footing for the next 12 months. 

The episodes that lead to this one are:

Mid-Year Reflection

Review Your Mid-Year Reflections

Inside this episode, you’ll find prompts to provide insight and clarity. From there you choose your stepping stones so you’re ready to move on to the fourth and final step in your mid-year process (in other words, next week’s episode topic!).

Prompts start at 02:35

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Transcript

FLIPSIDE OF MIDLIFE®️: YOUR MID-YEAR RESET

Are you down to explore how a few weeks in the middle of the year can help you gain clarity for the next part of your life journey? Do you want to feel confident in your choices and at ease with your pace?

I'm with you! It's why I moved away from New Year's resolutions and created a mid-year process instead.

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I'm Karli Newman and you're listening to FLIPSIDE OF MIDLIFE®️, a podcast for women in midlife and beyond who want to feel connected, hopeful, confident, and more satisfied with life than ever before.

I'm a coach who works with women in midlife and beyond to foster whole-life wellness. I know from personal experience what a transformational time of life this is and I'm here to help you navigate challenges, uncover how to move forward and continue on your unique journey of personal growth and self-discovery.

The FLIPSIDE OF MIDLIFE®️ is a place for you to honor who you've been, love who you are, and be excited about who you are becoming.

I recently launched my ELEVATE Membership so you can tap into your self-knowledge and love your life. For $25 a month, you get my most-asked-for tools centered around a monthly topic.

With tools like affirmations, prompts for thinking and writing, and a checklist of 10 new things to try, that one's my favorite, you'll build whole-life wellness one month at a time. Venture into self-reflection and discovery to release beliefs and habits that no longer serve you. Shift your mindset to ignite change and ELEVATE your well-being.

Will you join me there? Check out the link in the show notes or head to flipsideofmidlife.com to see all the details and join ELEVATE today.

This is the third of four episodes related to a mid-year process that replaces New Year's resolutions. If you haven't listened to the first two episodes, please do. They walk you through my thought process and the reflection and review phases. Of course, they include helpful tips, too. You can find the links to those episodes in the show notes and the transcript.

The episodes that lead to this one are:
Mid-Year Reflection
Review Your Mid-Year Reflections

Now it's time to reset. This episode builds on the review phase, where you find space to notice where you want to start something new, create change, or form new habits.

Yes, this phase includes a few prompts to get you thinking.

Grab your journal, notebook, or favorite app, my friend. If now isn't a good time for note-taking, that's okay.

Listen through to the end so you know what to expect. I'll drop a time marker in the show notes and transcript to make it easy to return to this spot in the episode.

TIME MARKER 02:35

The reset phase is where you choose the stepping stones that give you a solid footing for the next 12 months. There are two steps in this phase.

First, it's important to find clarity and insight from the thoughtful reflection and review phases that you've completed. I have four prompts to help with this. 

• As I moved through the reflect and review phases, I couldn't stop thinking about…
• I now have more clarity about…
• The answer feels obvious. This is how I feel good and move forward…
• I don't want to go another year without this in my life...

As with the reflect and review phases, do your best to spend time with these prompts daily. Your subconscious mind works behind the scenes as you go about your day, so don't be surprised when thoughts come to you unexpectedly. Have a place where you can jot them down so they don't slip away. 

In my experience, a few answers or strategies show themselves in the review phase. Then, in this, the reset phase, it becomes clear how those can help me move throughout the 12 months. That is clarity coming to light. I choose these to be my stepping stones.

And that is the next step here in the reset phase, my friend. What has solidified for you as you think and write with the prompts I just gave you? What are the ideas you feel so good about? What do you know in your heart and soul that the next 12 months have in store for you?

Think of your stepping stones as spots to land and ground yourself over the next year. Rather than a checklist or a goal, select stepping stones that will be there for you throughout the year. 

For me, I might choose a big dream that inspires me, a routine that keeps me feeling my best, and a boundary that keeps me from sliding backwards. Choose the number of stepping stones that feel right for you.

Three happens to be my sweet spot. I find it easier and less overwhelming to have no more than that.

Want to chat with me about your mid-year process? My Wellness Hours are one-hour time slots on Wednesdays and Thursdays where you and I talk via Google Meet. It's your opportunity to get one-time coaching, ask my advice, or even use me as an accountability partner. Gain clarity and move toward results more quickly when you talk it through with an expert. Yeah, that's me. 

Head to my website, flipsideofmidlife.com, to learn more about my wellness hours and to schedule a time that works for you. 

As I wrap up this episode, I want to leave you with a reminder that this is YOUR mid-year process. Take what works for you and leave the rest! I am here with a loose framework that is 100 percent customizable for you.

I hope you find space and ease within a mid-year process, and give yourself grace to uncover and understand what it is you want and need to feel good. I hope you discover the benefits of releasing New Year's resolutions in favor of a mid-year process that works for you.

I'll be back next week with the fourth and final phase of this mid-year process.

Enjoy the next week as you find clarity and choose the stepping stones that form solid footing for your journey in the next 12 months. 

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