Listen to the voices of your friends and colleagues. The pain is personal and it is deep. Older women are scrambling in this economy. They are sick, over-medicated and sadly, many are misinformed and/or uninformed. They don’t have solutions. Many women are not connected to their inner voices, that voice of reason, and they are confused by the noise in the media.
Women are proclaiming their pain in new ways: I’m stuck, I’m frustrated, I’m under-utilized, my life lacks meaning, something is missing, I can’t afford the rising costs of the economy, I’m stressed out, I don’t trust this country, the pressure is killing me and my home life is falling apart.
The wellness paradigm is upon us and yet it is high-jacked by Big Pharma. Women want to understand the root cause to their conditions, which is a fundamental breakthrough of old paradigms when people trusted their doctors before their own body's wisdom. The power of a woman's influence will steadily grow when we unite as a group of wise women, embracing the whole person model - living, learning, loving and leaving a legacy.
Leadership:
Ladies, it's time for our legacy that requires leaders with a vision that can take us from effectiveness to greatness. Leadership is not a position, it is a practice. It arrives innately when people sense human need. This taps into the sustainability of your voice. Search for creative solutions to problems and begin to educate yourselves and your community from that inner guidance. In other words, the voice within you that has cultivated wisdom from years and decades of experience. Mother Theresa says, “Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things that are great”.
Birthright:
It is the birthright of every human being to search for inner meaning to the life we live. Socrates says, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. Will you examine your new mindset that leaves behind mediocrity to step into greatness? Will you become a change catalyst or a change agent? What is your contribution to leadership for women aging? Inspire means to breathe life into another. My intent with my article is to inspire you in multiple ways.
Inspiration:
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. Robert Frost says, “Taking the road less travelled made all the difference”. One road is to mediocrity and the other is to greatness. One road is the quick fix and the other road is the inner work of wellness. In wellness there is a continuum of roads because we each have our own voice. We can all speak authentically to find a place of community and collaboration. Einstein said “The significant problems we face today cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them”.
The fastest way to change a person’s paradigm is to change their role, so I challenge you to change your role as a woman, career, family and community. Become a leader for change. We have some serious work to do ladies. Let's do the work together.
