YOUR PEOPLE YOUR PLACE
WELCOME HOME
Your Midlife Connection
supporting YOU to take action
Ready to find your people?
We hear you! What if we DON'T need a 9-5?
What if we don't need to follow the same path as previous generations?
What if we need something else..... what might it look like to truly follow our joy and find other people like us?
Welcome to
YOUR PEOPLE YOUR PLACE
WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY HERE
gratitude
You may have already realized that you're a little different from those around you - that you have different views and thoughts and ethics and you're getting fed up of the moaners and complainers, when you're trying to live in gratitude....
Be Inspired - Be The Inspiration
joy
The Joy of sharing life experiences, knowledge and wisdom, the joy of not being judged, the joy of mentoring, the joy of learning.
All without any ranting, politicking or victim-mentality.
Your People - Your Place
connection
A group of YOUR people - where your midlife makes sense - where you can share, celebrate, berate, discuss and encourage others to do the same.
This is our SAFE space.
Experts - Peers - Mentors - Guides
I want to be clear that this is a PRIVATE community for mid-lifers, so you can relax knowing that you are among your peers, peers who are also looking for gratitude, love and joy.
This community is based upon love, respect, honesty, humility in which we do real soul searching work under supportive guidelines that keep the conversations on-track to be non-judgmental, non-political...
You will have immediate access to our chat, and timeline, with multiple groups and channels to curate the conversation - and we welcome members offering to run these groups if they are of particular interest.
This is YOUR space and we want you to help shape it.
We're excited to launch our live in-person events in the future too!
We focus on the power of peer-to-peer support and the accumulated knowledge that all members bring to the table.
We focus on "we can" "have you considered" and "how about" thoughts to encourage and support one another.
If you are accountable, curious, honest, humble- you are an ideal person to contribute and benefit from this community (how to be truthful enough but not too brutal to scare off those looking/considering whether YPYP is for them).
I also would like to expand on creativity to explain that this is where we will likely spend time sharing our struggles of eldercare, marriage, sex, single or widow life, family/children, career.
With great support and creativity you will turn those challenges into perseverance, triumph, action, vision, legacy and joy.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
YPYP Community Home
This is your Community Home. The main group for general discussion, celebrations, announcements and collaboration.
Navigating Grief
With life comes inevitable waves of grief. Losing a parent, partner or God forbid a child, grief happens. Let us support one another with love.
Always be learning
The name says it all...always be learning (ABL). This is where we share our favorite books, podcasts, YouTube channels and "teachers".
Nutrition
Clean eating, healthy habits and engaging in an active lifestyle. Let's do this and make our second half better than our first.
Generational Care
Caring for our parents, partners and adult children requires strength and a strong inner circle. Through difficulty, let's seek strength and love.
Roadblocks in Life
Relationships, a health crisis, shifting careers...s**t happens. Let's use our shared wisdom to navigate around these inconveniences.
Our Interests
Having interests is a key to achieving gratitude, love and joy. Let get into some groups to share our love and passion.
Business & Entrepreneurs
Let's finish our careers strong or launch a new one! We are strong and we have immense knowledge and experience- it's never to late.
YOU'VE FOUND A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED ADULTS, SEEKING TRUTH AND JOY THAT HOLDS ALL ITS MEMBERS TO STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY, PROPER DECORUM AND RESPECTFUL BEHAVIOUR.
(Let's leave X for the ranting idiots!)
Problem Solving
Imagine a process that can be applied to EVERY issue in order to find the right solution and actions to take.
At YPYP we bring into play the highly effective methodologies that support leaders and innvators in a myriad of industries. I thoroughly enjoyed, and benefitted from, my monthly Mastermind while in the corporate world and I miss it every day, so having a new space where I can problem solve, and help others do the same, is one of my key intentions for this community.
Welcome Home my friend!
I look forward to welcoming you into our community and connecting through shared experiences and current goals. I really want this to feel like a "coming home" for everyone who joins.
Providing comradery, peer-support, hope and the knowledge that, no matter what you're going through, "this too shall pass" and we're here for you to celebrate, support, encourage and commiserate. We'll give you the confidence to move forward and not be stuck with indecision.
Finding Your Midlife Baseline
You are what you eat! TV (a dated term) shows you a commercial showing a juicy burger, cheesy pizza…and, well, you know better, that food is not for you.
Gone are the good old days of our youth but my gosh, look at everything we have learned on our journey so far! It is our second half of the game and there is a shit-ton of life to be lived.
I speak of freedom of choice, so some of you have thrown caution to the wind, and you are reading this over a plate of waffles and chicken but at least you are washing it down with some Diet soda because you are conscious about your calorie consumption.
For me, I created a new baseline (and waistline) as I entered my 50’s. I strapped a fitness tracker on my wrist and realized that I had to monitor what I was putting into my body or risk replacing my wardrobe every 6-12 months. And I will not tell you what my doctor had to say about my blood panel beyond that, you need to make better choices and get some exercise Ironically this is coming from a doctor who is overweight and loves barbeque but nonetheless, I love this guy as he does not let me get distracted by calling out his condition vs. mine, it is all about the customer and I too have voiced concerns about the trajectory of my blood panel over the years in comparison to my weight.
Health and humility definitely go hand in hand for mid-lifers or again, back to freedom to choose, maybe you are choosing happiness over health. Happiness you find from delicious fried foods, pasta, sweets and adult beverages. Damn the torpedoes, I am keeping myself “healthy” by taking a pill for my blood pressure and cholesterol-nothing to see here!
Dammit, dammit, dammit. You run but you can not hide from the inevitable, you feel better when you move and eat for your midlife age.
It is not complicated, let me be your guide, your beacon for common sense. As I mentioned, a fitness tracker has been on my wrist since I was 50. Here is the result, the more I move, hit my exercise goals, combined with moderation on eating all those things I love but know are not good for my gas tank, the less my body expands. More importantly I feel better, I sleep better, friends say I look better and I happen to agree, damn I even walked on the beach the other day with my shirt off. Oh, and my weight has not varied by more than 5 pounds in the last 6 years. Arguably I need to shave 15 pounds and I know I would feel even better but I have had to be real about determining my midlife baseline for health. For now, I know I am maintaining but make no mistake, I do have to go down in weight or better yet my body mass index (BMI).
I know in order to do that, I will need to move more, eat and drink less and focus on the quality and quantity of food I shovel in my mouthhole. Cue the Metallica song…Sad But True
