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How To Reinvent Yourself After 50
Editorial Team 5Updated on July 18, 2023
The very notion of reaching 50 often sparks thoughts of significant life milestones. Some may associate it with a sense of achievement and solidity, others may see it as a signal to reassess life goals. The dawn of this new decade can provide a moment to pause and evaluate, particularly given that 50-year-old American men have an average remaining life expectancy of 28 more years, and for women, it’s 32. These numbers show that there’s plenty of time left to craft new goals and pursuits.
Read MoreBook Bag: Are You a Helicopter Mom?
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Dena Higley worked hard to have it all: a daytime drama writing career, long marriage and four great kids. In Momaholic: Crazy Confessions of a Helicopter Parent (Thomas Nelson) Higley says it all fell apart, causing her to look at what she was doing right — and wrong. We talked to her.
Book Bag: Lilly Ledbetter's Story
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Lilly Ledbetter writes about tough years in Grace and Grit: My Fight For Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond (Crown $25). Her case led to her 2009 namesake legislation. Women For Hire talked to her.
Book Bag: Sabotaging Your Success?
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In her new book, In Her Power: Reclaiming Your Authentic Self, Author Helene Lerner says there the nine most common self-sabotaging behaviors that hold women back: thinking too small, worrying, misunderstanding yourself, dishonesty, holding back, not taking time for reflection, inhibiting desires, isolating and disempowering other women. “We have the power inside to be great,” Lerner tells Forbes, “but oftentimes it’s covered by false beliefs about ourselves.”