Maybe one of the most distressing experiences people can encounter is that of being rejected by the people who should be supporting them. Although human beings are intrinsically social and gregarious, there are moments when the community we live in does not fulfill its role of reinforcement it is supposed to have. It is then when people have to deal with feelings of exclusion and loneliness.

When you fail at something that you would really like to do what comes next? Do you just give up and think it is too hard? Do you act like a victim and sulk or feel that you are less for trying or do you move ahead and learn from what happened? Moving ahead involves risk. To risk is to truly live.

In order for you as a Midlife Woman to make a true Midlife Reinvention, in fact, for anything to happen in life, you need to take it through several stages even BEFORE setting goals. Here they are...

The intense experiences in your life set the stage for your success (or failure) to achieve your life goals. While adults encounter lots of negative experiences, it is possible to add intense positive experiences to life to make achieving your goals easier.

One of the great hindrances to an individuals success is the age-old problem of procrastination. It is very much in the nature of man to procrastinate. After all, why do today what you can put off tomorrow. "to do nothing is within every mans power."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Perhaps the largest impediment to accomplishing our projects, tasks and goals is procrastination. It is always easier to put off until tomorrow or next week what we might do today or what we should do today.