Identity & Reinvention · Curiosity & Self-Awareness

Over 55 and Just Getting Started

Your next chapter does not have an age limit. A reflection on choosing again, bringing everything you have learned, and beginning on your own terms at any age.

Both can be true. Two overlapping circles labeled Over 55 and Just getting started. Musings of a Recovering Executive. MusingsOfaRecoveringExecutive.com.
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Both can be true.

I'm over 55, and in so many ways I feel like I'm just getting started.

There's a quiet message out there that by a certain age, your story is mostly written. That new beginnings belong to someone younger.

I don't believe that. In Book 4 I wrote, "What served us at twenty-five may not serve us at fifty-five. That does not make the younger version of us wrong." Growing doesn't mean rejecting who we were. It means we get to choose again, with everything we've learned.

Your next chapter doesn't have an age limit.

Why this series is for you:

If you've been quietly told your best chapters are behind you, this series is for you. It's for anyone ready to reinvent on their own terms, bringing everything they've learned and choosing again at any age.

What are you just getting started on right now?

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Personal reflections by Lynn Cirillo. About this writing.