What is that one thing you've always wanted to do?
What adventure are you dreaming about and waiting to take?
If you had the time and money, what is it you'd love to do?
O.K., how about that small, creative idea that's been on your mind for awhile?
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Did you know that . . .

After a decade of thinking about it, his friends and family saying he was crazy, and his wife, Sherry, telling him to put up or shut up, Dave Gold started the now thriving 99cent stores, making the Forbes 400 list in 2002.

Julia Child worked in publicity and advertising after college and was not well known until the age of 51 when she pioneered one of the first television cooking shows.

Jane Goodall was a waitress after college, saving her money to go to Africa, where she apprenticed with an anthropologist in Tanzania before becoming renowned for her unique studies of chimpanzees.

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Would you like help putting your idea into action?

Call or e-mail me to set up your "Big, Wild Idea" Coaching Session.
........................................coachcat@jps.net

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

I have tried prudent planning
long enough. From now
on, I'll be mad.
                .......   -Rumi

Selected from If Not Now, When?
Reclaiming Ourselves at Midlife
by Stephanie Marston (2001)