1090: An Excerpt from 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life by Maria Leonard Olsen on Personal Growth

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🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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An excerpt from the book 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life by Maria Leonard Olsen. Episode 1090: An Excerpt from 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life by Maria Leonard Olsen on Personal Growth At age 50, Maria Leonard Olsen drank her way out of her 25-year marriage. She had, against advice, put all her eggs in the motherhood basket, willfully derailing her successful law career. When she turned 50, she had the distinct feeling that she was on the downward slope of her life. So when she turned 50, her gift to herself was to gone a crusade to make the most of whatever time she had left. This book follows the work she did to accomplish those 50 new things and show readers how to make their own action lists. Learn more about Maria and the book here: https://www.marialeonardolsen.com/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1090, an excerpt from 50 after 50,
0:05.8	reframing the next chapter of your life by Maria Leonard Olson, and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:11.2	The guy that spends hours a week reading to you every day of the week actually,
0:14.8	including weekends and holidays, to help you optimize your life.
0:18.7	I read blogs mostly, but sometimes books like today.
0:22.4	So for now, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:30.1	An excerpt from 50 after 50, reframing the next chapter of your life by Maria Leonard Olson.
0:37.8	Quote,
0:38.9	No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
0:47.5	Buddha. So what did I learn in this year of magical doing?
0:52.2	I sought this year to reclaim my life for myself and to find my voice.
0:57.2	My quest to try 50 new things after turning 50 started as a selfish means of catharsis,
1:02.9	of finding joy and purpose in my life following a period of darkness and loss.
1:08.0	I realized from multiple conversations that my quest was of wide interest and could be of
1:12.8	help to many others. If I help even one reader recalibrate her life and infuse it with vitality,
1:19.1	I will have paid forward the kindness and inspiration shared with me. I will have succeeded.
1:24.6	First and foremost, I gain the start clarity that it is my life and it is up to me what I do with it
1:30.4	and whatever time I have left. As we age, we lose loved ones. We learn that we need to take advantage
1:36.8	of the present moment. I don't want to look back on my life and see that I settled for less than
1:41.6	I could have done, or that I wasted the precious commodity of time doing things I did not care about
1:47.0	and that did not bring me closer to being the person I want to be. At the end of my life,
1:51.6	I do not want to look back wistfully at what might have been. This year has shown me that I can
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