Basically, a vision board is exactly what it sounds like - a collection of pictures, words and visual representations of what you want to do, have or be in life. The idea is to bring whatever is on your vision board to life. It’s a bit like a visual wish list.

I’m writing about the things its good to remember in this stage of life as well as sharing some tips on how to make this chapter a bit easier to transition through. We have G standing for going for it, glasses and girlfriends and H standing for hormones, holidays and humour in this article.

What does the term “age gracefully” mean to you? For me, there are a couple of explanations that spring to mind. Firstly, an image of a lady of a certain age in twin set and pearls, sipping a cup of tea (in a cup and saucer) and fulfilling societal expectations (imagine the Queen in The Crown).

In this second part of my A-Z of Midlife I am covering the letters C & D. I think I’m getting it in the right order! Part 1 covering, A & B can be found here. C is for Courage Confidence and Comfort. D is for Doubt and Dance.

Today is the first in a series of blogs I’m writing - an A-Z of Midlife. Focusing on the positive but not ignoring the negative and with hopefully a side of humour thrown in along the way😀. I’m going to break it down into a series of articles, otherwise you’d never make it to the end!

We hear a lot of talk about confidence, increasing our confidence, boosting our confidence but what does that actually mean? The dictionary defines confident as “feeling or showing confidence in oneself or one's abilities or qualities” and as “feeling or showing certainty about something.”

Sometimes I feel the phrase life purpose can be quite an intimidating phrase – as though we need to find “the” purpose, the one and only purpose for our whole lives. It can apply a pressure that doesn’t need to be there.

It’s January 2022 and where do you want to be – other than out of lockdown, obviously? It would be so easy (and understandable) at the moment to feel like life is on hold. To feel that there’s not a lot of point in planning, setting goals, making changes you want in life.

This is something I’ve adopted over the last few years. Adopting the phrase "say yes be brave" as a mantra really worked for me. It would pop into my head when presented with opportunities and helped transform my default answer from ”no” to “yes”.