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77 | WHAT IF? You Stopped Trying to Be Your Younger Self
Most of us measure midlife against one standard: the woman we were at 30. We notice we don’t want the same workouts, the same packed social calendar, or even the same career goals, and we read it as decline.
In this episode of the What If? series, Jamesyn talks about her gentle exercise era, trading half marathons for walks and reformer Pilates, and her queendom era, living single and liking it. Then she turns the question to you: what are you still demanding of yourself only because a younger version of you wanted it?
In this episode:
- How the sentence you attach to a change decides whether it feels like loss or like yours
- A simple way to tell decline apart from change: losing what you still want versus demanding what you don’t
- Why so many women treat the chapter they’re in as temporary, and what that costs them
- Why hitting career milestones can feel flat when the plan was written by your 28-year-old self
- The Recognize stage: getting clear on what’s actually happening and what has changed in you
- Why a decision that only has to hold for twelve months is easier to make than one that has to hold forever
- An experiment for this week: finding one old standard you’re still holding yourself to
Career Signal: Misalignment, when the goals, role, or standards you’re working toward no longer fit the woman you’ve become.
Career Evolution Framework stage: Recognize, the first stage, where you name what’s actually happening in your career and what has changed in you before you decide anything. Skip it, and you risk fixing the wrong problem.
Take the Career Signals Quiz: If the milestones you’re hitting feel flat, this 2-minute quiz names your Career Signal so you can stop guessing. Take the Career Signals Quiz
Work with Jamesyn: The Bold Life Coaching is private 1:1 video coaching built on the Career Evolution Framework, available as a monthly subscription in two tiers, Essential and Intensive. www.theboldlife.coach
About Jamesyn: Jamesyn is a career strategist, author, and the voice behind The Bold Life. By day, she leads learning technology for a robotic surgery education program at a global MedTech company. She’s been choosing again her whole career: from classroom teacher to educational publishing, to learning leadership, to building her own companies. On The Bold Life, she shares the stories and strategy behind career evolution, and works 1:1 with ambitious women ready to build what’s next.
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