279: 15 Life Lessons Learned during my First Year into my 40s
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
True contentedness is unremarkable to the outside world, or passerby.
Typing away in my cozy chair in the living room in my line of sight Norman eats his breakfast and Oscar acknowledging he will not be able to sneak a bite, takes a long cool drink of water. The croissant for my Sunday morning ritual is proofing in the oven and Sunday Baroque's weekly program fills my home.
Even having lost an hour of the day, I have decided to wake up with the sunset and use the dawn-filled hour to work early before we are able to go for our morning stroll in the woods. All is well, and so much surrounds me for which to be grateful.
I began the morning reading Maria Shriver's weekly email newsletter, and in particular this morning's letter resonated with me, and most likely would you as well as a reader of TSLL.
Each year when my birthday rolls around, here on the blog, I share a reflection of some sort of life lessons, aha moments and discoveries about the world found along my journey. To share, as well, admittedly, as a way to preserve my own growth, my hope is to prompt introspection amongst readers as sometimes, maybe even often, we do not realize all ways in which we have grown as it can sometimes be hard to see when we are the ones walking through the world each day.
I have yet to share my life lessons for my 41st birthday which fell during the final week of February, so I wanted to take today's episode/post to reflect.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 279th episode of the Simple Sophisticate. |
| 0:48.0 | Today's episode is going to be an episode that typically is a blog post that I share every year having to do with |
| 0:56.5 | what I've learned upon reflection whenever my birthday pops up now this won't be |
| 1:01.3 | specifically about me but it'll be inspired by this last year |
| 1:05.0 | because I'm going to share 15 life lessons that I learned during my first year in my 40s. But before we get to |
| 1:11.5 | those life lessons this week's petit Plezier is going to be a two-fer. |
| 1:15.4 | I have two different items, one a television show, one a book that I think at least one of them you will |
| 1:20.7 | enjoy based on your predilections, but maybe, as they are both things that I have been |
| 1:25.5 | enjoyed as of late. Be sure to stay tuned as I'll share both of those in detail at the end of today's |
| 1:30.9 | episode. But let's get into today's topic, the 15 life lessons that I learned |
| 1:36.4 | during my first year into my 40s. I celebrated my 41st birthday just over a week ago, so the end of February. And I usually write a post that |
| 1:48.8 | shares upon reflection things that I learned just in that one particular year and I didn't actually get around to it because my birthday fell on a Friday and I just I just wanted to enjoy the weekend and I told myself then do that And I wanted this post to be authentic and come forth naturally. |
| 2:08.0 | And this week I was ready to go through and examine and assess |
| 2:12.0 | and just kind of reflect on what those lessons are. |
| 2:16.2 | And so we'll get into that right now. |
| 2:19.1 | As I started writing this post, I was inspired by something I woke up to reading on Sunday morning and had to do with true |
| 2:26.7 | contentedness and that's what's going to start the commentary for today's episode. |
| 2:32.3 | True contentedness or contentment is unremarkable to the |
| 2:37.3 | outside world or a passer-by. As I was typing away in my cozy chair in the |
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