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Don’t you just love this image…and the caption “Tired of Being a Good Girl?”

This postcard still hangs on the refrigerators and bulletin boards of women around the country seven years after I first used it back when my business was called The WOW Zone. Why? Because it’s such a funny (and powerful) reminder of the high cost we pay turning ourselves inside out to make sure we’re doing it “right”, being “perfect”, and making sure everyone “likes” us. Aaaaarrrrggh!

I like to think that my Good Girl has been retired for years, but every once in awhile she rears her perilous head. In the middle of this week, shazaam, there she was.

You see I made a commitment to myself, and you, to communicate every other Friday in an issue of Living with the Brakes Off. My intention is to let you know what’s happening at Revolutionize Retirement, and to provide real value through (hopefully) inspiring articles, and great resource tips. I don’t always get the article written, but I haven’t missed getting an issue out, and on time.

Since the last issue, there’s been a convergence of amazing opportunities flying in the door that have derailed my best intentions. (No, I can’t tell you about any of them yet. Yes, I’m such a tease!) This week, I’ve had back-to-back client days (exhilarating and I love them!) to boot, so by end of day Wednesday when Living with the Brakes Off is normally done, I started to panic. The feeling that I had to get it out, it had to be what I committed to, and it had to be perfect lasted for about a half a day, and then the light bulb went off in my head.

I’m a 60-something woman who knows that breathing space is more important than trying to please, that there are only so many hours in each day, and that life is not about being perfect, but about being real.

So I let myself off the hook, which lets you off the hook, too…you don’t have to read a whole Living with the Brakes Off this week. :-))

Have a great weekend, and while you’re at it, you might want to thank your Good Girl, and tell her to get lost!!

To your endless possibilities!

Lin Schreiber, Retirement Revolutionary

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

~Mae West

Lin Schreiber is a Retirement Revolutionary who loves helping self-reliant women reinvent themselves in the next stage of life, formerly known as "retirement."  Like Lin, her clients have a positive vision for the future, and the idea of riding off into the sunset for the next 30-40 years isn't in the picture.

She is a sought after speaker, Professional Certified Coach and Certified Retirement Coach.  Through her business, Revolutionize Retirement^(TM), she delivers her comprehensive coaching programs to individuals over the phone, and to groups at her Boot Camp live events.  Combining her contagious enthusiasm, non-stop energy, and passion for her subject, Lin creates a fun, dynamic learning environment that energizes and inspires her audiences.

Lin is featured on the PBS series Boomers^(TM): Redefining Life After Fifty, and is the author of The ABC's of Revolutionizing Retirement.

Contact her at  www.RevolutionizeRetirement.com.