Riffing off Chris Brogan's post at http://www.chrisbrogan.com/my-3-words-for-2011/ I have come up with my three words for 2012:

Focused

Engaged

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Chris Brogan in a recent post says that every December he comes up with three words as his intentions for the new year. This seems like such a good idea to me that I've been noodling on my words and have come up with several sets, all of which I like.

If you would like to play, read Chris's post and then send me your three words as a comment. I will reveal mine on January 1st. The post is here: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/my-3-words-for-2011/

Let me hear from you!

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I am having a great time taking telecourses right now. I wrote last time about Tim Kelley's wonderful work in his Align Inner Parts (Inner Harmony) teleseminar.

Today I want to talk about Jean Houston's Awakening to Your Life's Purpose teleseminar series which is wrapping up soon. (Yes, my friends, the deep longing to know ourselves and our purpose is very strong right now. We sense that something new is being born. Many of us want to know how to step up and play our role in the great transformation taking place now.)

Jean Houston has been a leading light in the human consciousness movement for fifty years. She is an amazingly talented woman who has worked with the powerful and with every day people all over the world.

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Tim Kelley of the True Purpose Institute and Know Your Purpose brings an engineer's mind and systematic approach to the murky and infinite realm of our psyches. Trained in Voice Dialogue, he teaches his clients to identify their true purpose, blessing, and mission.

I am currently taking the Align Inner Parts (aka Inner Harmony) teleseminar with Tim and his team. We are learning to identify and have practical, helpful conversations with various parts of our psyche. We are starting with the parts that are charged with keeping us safe and whole.

When misaligned with our goals, these protector parts get in the way of achieving our goals. One of the most fascinating things Tim has said so far is that many of the parts of our psyche are operating with outdated manuals, some even decades old.

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I spoke recently with a friend who is going to his 30th high school reunion this weekend. He isn't looking forward to it. High school was not the high point of his life, and he's not feeling all that good about his accomplishments thirty years later.

My advice to him is

1. Realize that three people in your high school class enjoyed high school - only three. Now that they are 30 years older, it's pretty clear that those days are over.
2. Some of his classmates are bald through no fault of their own (my friend still has his own hair), some have been involuntarily "downsized" from their job, and some are dead. Compared to them, my friend is doing well.
3. People just want you to be able to pronounce their name, be kind, and ask how they are doing. If they ask how you are, you say, "Great!" as you remember the details of  Item #2 above.

I had a high school reunion last year. I was nervous about going, but I put on my party duds and showed up. I saw a lot of people I was glad to see, missed some that I wanted to see, and felt overall very grateful to be alive and able to party with people I had known a long time ago.

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I was talking recently with a friend who has moved into her third 30 years of life. Her kids are launched, her career as an exhibit fabricator (she’s made more than five replicas of the White House for various museums and exibit centers) is changing because of the economy, and she and her husband are looking at what they want to do with their lives at this stage.

Her husband has fulfilled a lifelong dream of buying a sailboat. Many of their discussions center on sailing around the Caribbean and adventuring in open waters off North Carolina. It’s a thrilling prospect, but my friend says that it is a completely different conversation from the first and second “30 year” segments of her life.

She laid it out like this:

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In my last post, I wrote about how your beliefs can stop you from sharing your best gifts in your business. Today I want to tell you a story to illustrate my point in a different way.

I had the opportunity to talk with a woman whose family immigrated to the US from Iran many years ago. Some of her family members stayed in Iran, and she had recently visited them there. She told me that her female relatives in Iran wear gorgeous clothes and accessories, have beautiful haircuts and manicured nails, and ride in expensive cars to the shops and salons they frequent.

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Recently, I worked with a midlife entrepreneur whom I will call Amanda (not her real name). Amanda has spent a considerable amount of time and money in the last two years getting trained and certified as an intuitive healer in a modality called Theta Healing. She has even been trained to teach some of Theta Healing courses and has begun a website to promote her Theta Healing work.

But the problem is that Amanda has not completed her website or begun enrolling paying clients for her work. She has done a number of successful practice sessions and has a lot of evidence that her clients get great results working with her.

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Yes, it’s true – in midlife you DO look different than you did in your teens, 20s, 30s, and 40s! It can be a rude awakening to realize that you are no longer so young and cute. It can also be liberating!

On her show Oprah asked many beautiful women, including actresses and supermodels, how they felt about aging. Their answers reflect our secret fears:

Cybill Shepherd, Actress, told Oprah, “I had a great fear, as I grew older, that I would not be valued anymore.” I know many of us in midlife have entertained this fear.

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In my last post, I wrote about Mary’s Law of Money aka “Funny” Money, which states that

What you think about money is what you get.

I asked you to track your thoughts about money for a whole day to become aware of what you think about money. You may find a relationship between what you think and what your money life looks like.

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