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Hi! I'm Lynnelle!

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Lynnelle is Moving to France: Lesson #1

People have been telling me for a YEAR, "You have to share this journey!" Reader, if you're like me going "Live" online isn't the most comfortable thing. Recording yourself, in general, is a chore. Still, I've chosen this path of sharing my journey back to myself after retiring... so, here 'goes. So many of you have said how much you admire, how much you'd like to do the same, how envious, how amazed... you are that I'm actually making the move. Long & Winding Road 🎶 If I'm completely...

10 days ago • 1 min read

People have been telling me for a YEAR, "You have to share this journey!" Reader, if you're like me going "Live" online isn't the most comfortable thing. Recording yourself, in general, is a chore. Still, I've chosen this path of sharing my journey back to myself after retiring... so, here 'goes. So many of you have said how much you admire, how much you'd like to do the same, how envious, how amazed... you are that I'm actually making the move. Long & Winding Road 🎶 If I'm completely...

11 days ago • 1 min read

Reader you've heard the saying, "You have to let go to receive." ...which sounds completely ridiculous. Not only does it not make sense, try acting on this theory - which is NOT acting, by the way. In case you haven't tried it - it is NOT easy. Shaking Things UP & Letting Things Go I'm doing something different this week. I'm sending a short email with a couple of highlights that, if you're interested, you can click through to read more on. I really hate getting long, wordy emails. I will...

15 days ago • 1 min read

Reader you've heard the saying, "You have to let go to receive." ...which sounds completely ridiculous. Not only does it not make logical sense, try acting on this theory - which is NOT acting, by the way. In case you haven't tried it - is NOT easy. Crush It & Conquer 😬 ! It's not easy because it's not the way we've lived the previous 5, 6 decades of our lives. Build a career? You MAKE sh*t happen, you don't let go. Get the promotion, the client, the husband, the house in the country... you...

16 days ago • 4 min read

If you want a fulfilling, heart-centered, authentic life, you'll want to ditch the old, conventional definition of success and adopt the new. Reader, this took me more than a minute to figure out. We grew up in a culture that values image & monetary and status-based accomplishments. We learn that the importance in life is crossing the finish line - not running the race. As much as we say, "Life is about the journey not the destination." ...bullocks. It's time to buck what was, and change. OLD...

23 days ago • 2 min read

Boundaries. Boundaries hold things in, keep things out, & can give size, shape, & purpose to something. You can also tell a lot about someone by the boundaries they make ... and keep (or not). Bear with me on this, Reader. Holding true to personal boundaries is probably the most difficult change for me to make. Honestly it's a daily discipline and it's still hard. After leaving work and when I started to come through the confusion and frustration of "The Loop", I realized that in order to...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

We all have dreams, Reader. But, how do you decide that it's time to turn your dream into a goal? How do you know when to say YES to your dream? Yes, I'm moving to France. It's something I've dreamed about for decades. But, how did I finally pull the trigger and say "YES", this is now my goal? I've been asked this more than a few times. Our objective for most any decision we make, big or small, is to be happier. We decide on the alternative that will lead to more happiness than the other....

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Reader, following your heart ain't for wimps. "You're so selfish! You've ALWAYS been selfish!!" "Have you gone nuts?" "I think you're unhinged. This isn't like you." -Everyone Family and friends mean well. Maybe. But, they don't know that as crazy and unhinged as they feel you've gone, you probably haven't felt more sure of anything in very, very long while. How can this be? ARE you crazy? NO. One of the things to be prepared for is the blowback from others who aren't prepared for the new...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Reader, A few years ago the gnawing I felt inside wasn't a call from the French countryside. I didn't know exactly what it was, just that something was out of sync. Whether you're in a life that's going well, yet have an occasional pang of "what if" - or you're feeling completely untethered, my first suggestion is to stop looking at is as something that is missing or wrong and reframe it as curiosity about what is going on? What IS there? I believe something "out there" is not in alignment...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Reader, something I hear frequently from women who’ve retired and are feeling the honeymoon start to wane is “I wish I could ________.” (fill in the blank) Start an organic garden and donate the overage to shelters Learn Sign Language & volunteer at schools for the deaf and hard of hearing Take a girls’ trip to Florence and take an art history class at the Uffizi Start a non-profit with a mission of decreasing recidivism of women parolees with children under 17 Move to France and host mind,...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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