Episode 21:4 Lynette Reiling on Living Your Encore Life

Certified Professional Life Coach Lynette Reiling shares insights from her recently released new book,Your Encore Life: Take Center Stage for Life's Second Half. Her approach focuses on helping women identify their strengths, overcome obstacles, and create actionable plans to live a life of fulfillment.

About Lynette

Lynette Reiling is a lover of life who is endlessly inquisitive, innovative, jazzed about discoveries and experiencing new adventures. Her heart leads her to a deep desire to connect with people. Although her career has taken her in many directions; career transition coaching, volunteer recruitment/training/management, and adult education, a passion for people development has been a constant theme. Her greatest joy is to advocate, educate and inspire others so they feel empowered to live their best lives possible. She brings her professional experience and her personal journey through midlife, and its transitions to her work today.

Lynette brings her passion to life through writing, speaking, teaching, and coaching. Her fun time includes hiking, kayaking, line dancing, clay hand building, and adventures with family, friends, and her spiritual community.

Connect with Lynette at www.YourEncoreLifeCoach.som

Key Takeaways

• Living an "encore life" means embracing new purpose in later life instead of accepting the myth of inevitable decline. It involves pursuing meaningful activities and sharing the wisdom garnered over a lifetime.
• Engage in endeavors that provide fulfillment, such ascreative projects, mentoring, or volunteering. A sense of fulfillment creates more value for the older adult and the people around them.
• Identifying and incorporating values into daily lifegenerates passion. This passion leads us to discover our purpose, providing meaning to our actions. Living with purpose, driven by passion and grounded in values, creates an engaging life of growth and fulfillment.
• The neutral zone is a transitional space between endings and new beginnings. It's characterized by a state of no longer being what you were before, yet not knowing who you will become. This period is marked by quiet reflection, a time for giving yourself space. In the neutral zone, the focus shifts from doing to simply being, allowing for introspection and personal growth.