The world has changed. Your body changes, your relationships change and even your work changes. Your coworkers are starting to call you ma’am and you no longer feel relevant. Determine your strategy at halftime with confidence to make your second half even better than your first, climbing your own Hero Mountain®!
One day you wake up on the stage of your life feeling like someone has changed the script...
Just as there is halftime in sports, most of us need to take a moment and reflect on critical talking points and disruptive forces in our life at halftime. The decisions you make at halftime will largely determine how you will live the rest of your life. Will you merely face into the second half of life, operating with a tired and outdated strategy, living on autopilot? Or will you successfully reinvent yourself and climb to your personal peak of Hero Mountain®? Only those who reach the top of Hero Mountain® can describe and claim the vision at the peak! Determine your strategy at halftime with confidence to make your second half even better than your first, climbing your own Hero Mountain®!
Deborah Johnson
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AT THE BASE OF HERO MOUNTAIN®
Change, it sneaks up so gradually that we hardly notice until one morning, we wake to face a strange image in the mirror—not just any mirror—that magnifying mirror mounted on the bathroom wall. While our mind’s eye pictures a high-spirited, young woman with vibrant eyes, who’s ready to face another day, the image before us requires a squint, then second or third looks.
Are those deepening crow’s feet spreading? Are those actuallypermanent bags beneath our eyes? Several splashes of cold water cannot rinse away the creases around our mouths that have deep- ened from smile lines to fissures. We lift sagging cheeks to produce a momentary youthful expression. But wasn’t it just yesterday that we were nominated for college homecoming queen?
Gray hairs betray us too. We love our mothers, but we don’t want to look like them yet because they are older than we are! However our aging faces reflect a maturity of their own. These realizations alarm us.
OUR WORLD IS CHANGING
It’s one thing to look old and another to feel old. Yet at work, a com- petent career woman in mid-life may notice that the new employees and younger talent at the company, are beginning to tell her what to do. Some have good ideas, yet their methods and management styles are making the older woman feel isolated and irrelevant. She wonders if she should just retire or just hang on a few years more. What else could she do at her life stage? She actually starts feelinglike she can’t keep up. Is this what “old” feels like?
These mid-life shifts bring biological changes, too, that may beget night sweats, hot flashes, pudgy waists, and stubborn pounds. Midlife women may feel like the last runners in a race, trying to stay ahead of the support vehicles, but even then, unable to keep up. At home, as her children leave the family nest, bedtime stories, school activities, needy teenagers, and other mom duties are no longer required. Who needs women like them at this stage when the forties turn to fifties and beyond?
Welcome to halftime.
AT THE BASE OF HERO MOUNTAIN®
Change, it sneaks up so gradually that we hardly notice until one morning, we wake to face a strange image in the mirror—not just any mirror—that magnifying mirror mounted on the bathroom wall. While our mind’s eye pictures a high-spirited, young woman with vibrant eyes, who’s ready to face another day, the image before us requires a squint, then second or third looks.
Are those deepening crow’s feet spreading? Are those actuallypermanent bags beneath our eyes? Several splashes of cold water cannot rinse away the creases around our mouths that have deep- ened from smile lines to fissures. We lift sagging cheeks to produce a momentary youthful expression. But wasn’t it just yesterday that we were nominated for college homecoming queen?
Gray hairs betray us too. We love our mothers, but we don’t want to look like them yet because they are older than we are! However our aging faces reflect a maturity of their own. These realizations alarm us.
OUR WORLD IS CHANGING
It’s one thing to look old and another to feel old. Yet at work, a com- petent career woman in mid-life may notice that the new employees and younger talent at the company, are beginning to tell her what to do. Some have good ideas, yet their methods and management styles are making the older woman feel isolated and irrelevant. She wonders if she should just retire or just hang on a few years more. What else could she do at her life stage? She actually starts feelinglike she can’t keep up. Is this what “old” feels like?
These mid-life shifts bring biological changes, too, that may beget night sweats, hot flashes, pudgy waists, and stubborn pounds. Midlife women may feel like the last runners in a race, trying to stay ahead of the support vehicles, but even then, unable to keep up. At home, as her children leave the family nest, bedtime stories, school activities, needy teenagers, and other mom duties are no longer required. Who needs women like them at this stage when the forties turn to fifties and beyond?
Welcome to halftime.
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By reading this book, you'll get the following benefits:
This book is about both reassessing then re-developing a strategy to succeed in life’s second half.
Effectively confronting negative talk and bad mental code are necessary for a half time effort.
Find the pattern and Core Common Denominator™ of all you have accomplished so far with an easy system.
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"Deborah has provided women approaching their second season with a real life conversation and roadmap to move from stuck to success. An excellent read for all women."
- Joyce Odidison (Founder, President Interpersonal Wellness Institute)
"As a woman at halftime, with young adult children, aging parents, a suddenly 'empty nest', volunteer commitments, and a new career I'm trying to get off the ground -- this book could not have come at a better time!"
- Elisa Hays (Founder, Extraordinary Impact)
The book Women at Halftime is an introduction to the essential cables needed to ascend one's Hero Mountain® peak.
Are you one of the 150,000 women entering halftime each month? Women at halftime are 40+ and join the ranks of 45 million women in the U.S.A.! You may be a successful career woman, a spouse, a mother or a friend. Most importantly, you're an individual! There is more opportunity than ever for women at halftime as women are living longer, have greater skills, purpose and freedom! Join the halftime community!
Whether in business, donating your time or just taking some time to breathe, this workshop focuses on you gaining momentum for your second half and having fun doing it! Is this you? "I'm at a point in my life where I like me and I want to keep on liking me!"
5-month online mentorship to cultivate self-leadership skills, and achieve personal and professional growth. Over 60 short video sessions, downloadable MP3s and PDF downloads. This course is life-changing with accountability and step-by-step progress. For Individuals--opening up several times a year & for Teams that can be booked any time.
"I can fly! shouted Mary, jumping from her seat! Your message was such a breakthrough for me! Mary Lou had recently lost her husband and lost herself in the process. !"
-Mary Lou Clark (Retreat Attendee)
The book Women at Halftime is designed to help readers escalate their journeys, and then serve as a tool to give ongoing reminders to reflect and evaluate what practices to keep or discard and what approaches to adopt in the future
In order to thrive in mid-life, women must get ready for sudden changes as well as gradual ones.
The process of discovering core strength and competency may be hard emotionally, but it need not be difficult. It doesn’t require psychoanalysis. In fact, determining the common denominators connecting a life and career should be fun, simple and full of self-dis- covery, revealed in midlife.
Past accomplishments, no matter how grand, do not guarantee future success, although they do provide an anchor to build upon
The challenge at midlife comes when women must decide whether to remain static, retreat, or advance.
There is a personal application section after every chapter/cable in the book.
This book is designed to help read- ers escalate their journeys, and then serve as a tool to give ongoing reminders to reflect and evaluate what practices to keep or discard and what approaches to adopt in the future.
"Practical tools and helpful perspectives to facilitate transition and adapting to change! "
- Lucy Buchan, PhD (Global Workplace Wellness)
Halftime is that period in the middle of a game where players reassess their first half, then make adjustments for their future success. It is a brief recovery time to refocus on the most critical action points. An effective halftime in a game occurs when it is dedicated exclusively to identifying and counteracting the most disruptive forces to a team or player’s success. This book will help you do that!
Other Great Resources: Hero Mountain® 5-month course and Women at Halftime Podcast!
DEBORAH JOHNSON
Up for multiple GRAMMY Awards and spending over 20 years in the entertainment industry, Deborah Johnson, M.A., built multiple self-driven businesses. While many discuss career transitions and achieving success in a second act, few offer comprehensive guidance on leveraging automated content with core values and purpose. A creative powerhouse, she has released multiple books, albums, published hundreds of songs, has a thriving podcast and has written three musicals.
