Vous défaites l’arc, déballez le colis, et à l’intérieur se trouve une version de vous-même âgé de 40 ou 50 ans. Maintenant, si vous êtes bien en dessous de ce score, avez la plus grande partie de votre tour à jouer, vous secouez peut-être la tête tristement à la pensée d’un tel cadeau indésirable. D’un autre côté, si vous avez renversé quelques quilles de plus, gagné un coup ou deux, vous pourriez hocher la tête en souvenir.

Au milieu se trouvent ceux pour qui c’est une réalité. Il se pourrait bien qu’une course autour du parc à la poursuite de votre chien de la famille soit un peu plus difficile qu’auparavant. Peut-être ces CD – vous vous en souvenez? – vous avez acheté les années précédentes ne semble pas aussi à la pointe de la musique qu’autrefois. Peut-être, juste peut-être, que vos orteils ne sont pas aussi pleinement visibles qu’ils l’étaient auparavant.

In times past, at 50, you’d be middle-aged. Not now, not yet, and not for quite a while. As medical skills keep improving, as health and fitness advice becomes more worthwhile, you are simply entering your prime. That midlife crisis you might even have been promising yourself is almost a generation away – and probably won’t even happen then!

Instead, you truly have the chance to open a new chapter in your career. Experience has been gained, now it’s time for it to be used. A TV analyst, examining the skills of an international sportsman, once shrewdly assessed that the individual had simply played the same single international fixture 40 times over. Nothing seemed to have been learned from the experiences he had been through, no significant changes made to his past patterns of behavior. Or, as Muhammad Ali once put it: ‘A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life’.

50 ans et transition de carrière
This is a time of opportunity. It’s YOUR time to define yourself and your career. However, many people fall into the trap of defining it through their dislikes, or through striving simply to meet the expectations of others. This can be through work peer pressure, and family demands or expectations. With the former, often there is a desire to drag people down to the level of performance where others feel in their comfort zone. At this time of your life, you have the emotional intelligence and practical experience to refuse to be bound by these constraints. You have learned enough, although you’ll always learn more, to forge your path rather than simply follow a trail left by others.

This is a time to appreciate what you have learned and to know how best you can put it to use in the years ahead. It is time now for that new chapter – or maybe even a brand new book – but a defining one, not simply a retelling of what has gone before. Coco Chanel once told us: ‘Nature gives you the face you have at 20, it is up to you to merit the face you have at 40 or even 50’. If your face has reached that milestone, it’s time to turn it proudly to face the world on your terms, to meet your expectations, to make it into the place where you want to be.

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