What is the value of experience?

Sometimes I wonder what is the value of experience. On a personal level, I think we find our own experiences mean something. What we have lived through in the past may guide in the present and prevent us from taking a similar path to the one we have taken before. After all, the definition of insanity is to do the same thing every time expecting different results. So, if we cannot plead insanity, we use experience to change our response or our course of action when we see a pattern that is familiar.

Still, I wonder–is there any value in sharing our experience? Can it be so powerfully communicated to another person that it will change the way that person walks in her life? I do not know the answer–maybe it will become more obvious as I age a little longer. What do you think? Would love to get the conversation going!

Life is amazing! Live well.
Anna Grassini

Would you want to be a child again?

Or are you going to be content with being a child at heart?

Over the last few days I have talked to a few moms whose teen daughters are returning to school. Some of these young girls are starting high school.  While I have no children of my own, I can vividly remember what it was like to be that teenager.  As I look back with my new wisdom of age, I can now relate  to what my own mom had to put up with back then.  I was moody, irrational, unsecure.  Really, and mercifully, the only thing I had going for me is that I was a good student.  What energy it took to live (or muddle through)!  Youth is wasted on the young–I know that now that my body is transforming, the pieces not quite so effortlessly working together as they used to!!

When I look at these young girls and their mothers today, I think I would not go back to being child since that would entail having to go through adolescence again.  I will be happy being a child at heart…

I wish we could share wisdom with those young girls–but I am afraid that the best we can do is be present for them and remember that we have been through it ourselves, and that we managed to blossom into amazing women.  So, dear friends, take heart in the wisdom of our age…and know that one day, thanks to your magnificent efforts, your own daughters will be strong, self-confident women with a brilliant heart and future.

Life is Amazing! Live Well.

Anna Grassini

www.lifeinbalancecoach.com

Forgetting your age

Have you ever forgotten your age? I am serious in asking the question.  Yesterday, for the first time, I forgot mine.  I was sitting in a group of wonderful professional women and we were laughing about hormones and hair loss and more (which in and of itself, tells you something about our group!)–then one of us said she is turning a certain age next Wednesday.  For a fleeting moment I thought: She is older than I am.  Then I sat and looked back to my year of birth! No, she is not older than I am.  We are practically contemporaries…even though I am the one who is a few months older (and, in fact, by year a whole year older).  I had to laugh at myself.  I literally had forgotten how old I am.  What does it mean? Yes, a moment of non-conscious living…but there was also great lightness to it.  After all, the number did not seem to mean much.  The experiences we were sharing, on the other hand, were rich and powerful.

So, forget about your age if you can, or refuse to act your age if you want to.  Enjoy life, the pleasure of the moment and the knowledge that you are more than the sum of your ears.

Life is Amazing! Live well.

Anna

Your Transitions Coach

 

The Wisdom of Women

Recently an older woman overheard a younger one at the hairdresser–the younger woman was worried because her hair was thinning.  The older woman approached the younger one and told her she was also having the same problem, but things were improving since she had been taking a certain supplement.  She confessed that when she had started taking the supplement she had her doubts, but her mother in law had assured her that it worked.  Interesting, thought the younger woman.  And she went home to the internet and the usual medical sites.  Surprise surprise, the supplement the older woman had mentioned was exactly the one that might help!  The younger woman went to the drugstore and purchased it hopefully–with the knowledge that both the older woman and the website had been right.

What would happen if you shared your wisdom today with someone younger? How would they react? Why not give it a try?

Life is Amazing! Live well.

Anna

Your Transitions Coach