399: Eight Things I've Learned in my 46th Year

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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There is an awareness available to anyone who steps fully into their forties. It often happens a couple of years after turning the big 4 - 0, but it's there, waiting for each of us to realize we are half-way through (if we are so fortunate to live into our 90s) this beautiful gift called life.

This awareness prompts courage and discipline as well as motivation to just get about the business of living out the dreams we may have been too timid to try in our earlier years. We begin to see that taking care of our health is more than worth the investment. We begin to know that loving fully is the best thing to do for our life enjoyment even though we also know there will be great pain in the goodbye. That goodbye is a privilege only the brave experience by being wholly vulnerable, kind and truly giving of their true selves and accepting others as theirs.

The leaning is a good thing because we see over the handrail of life that we are fortunate to have this vantage point and we are not going to toss aside the wisdom gained along the way.

The leaning is both a gift and a motivator.

This year, as I celebrated my 46th birthday on the tail-end of February, I wanted to continue to the annual tradition of sharing what I have learned during the past twelve months. May it inspire you embrace life even more fully and bravely than you already are and enjoy each day all the more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate, where in 2014, this podcast premiered.
0:09.0	And now in its 11th season, the show continues to focus on the same principles it was founded upon.
0:15.0	The art of living a life of quality over quantity.
0:19.0	Topics range from creating an everyday life you love living,
0:22.2	strengthening mindfulness practices, building a capsule wardrobe,
0:26.1	preparing seasonally delicious meals,
0:28.4	traveling and exploring France and Britain,
0:30.9	and living life to the fullest without breaking the bank,
0:34.5	because living well really is quite simple. I'm your host, Shannon Ables,
0:40.1	and whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden in route,
0:44.7	or returning from that dream destination, or sitting down with a hot cuppa or a cafe
0:50.5	au lae, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to episode 399 of the simple
1:02.8	sophisticate. And today's episode is a bit of a tradition. We have done a few episodes around this tradition, but every year,
1:13.8	whether it's an episode or a post on a blog, it's been happening since 2010. And if you're a
1:20.3	long-time listener, you know what that is. I just had the opportunity, I'm very grateful,
1:24.6	to have celebrated my birthday, just a few days ago, the end of February. So I wanted
1:30.5	to share with you what I've learned this past year, this past 46th year. So I turned 46. And so
1:38.1	these past 12 months, what have I learned? And that's what we're going to talk about today.
1:43.2	I'm going to share eight things that I've learned. And then this episode's Petit Plezier is a film that I have to be
1:51.2	honest, I wasn't expecting that it would be chosen for a Petit Pleasure. But as soon as I watched it and watched it again immediately the next day,
2:03.8	I knew it had to be.
2:05.1	And I'll explain a lot of the backstory,
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