Have you pictured your next chapter in big moments, like the business launch, the move, or the day you hand in your resignation, but never pictured an ordinary Tuesday inside it?

The milestones matter, and they’re worth dreaming about. But a life is lived on ordinary days, and that’s where a dream shows its truth. Andrea Maizes, from episode 344, left an exhausting executive role only to build a consulting practice that had her working 60 hours a week, a reminder that busy and fulfilled are not the same thing. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday’s episode 352, you’ll continue the visioning step of the Pyramid of Reinvention by putting the picture of your next chapter that excites you most to a simple test. Kavita also shares what Diwali, the festival of lights, means to her, and why it’s the perfect time to make room for something new.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why an ordinary Tuesday tells you more about a dream than any big milestone, and how it keeps you from recreating the very life you’re trying to leave
• A three-step exercise to write out an ordinary day in your next chapter and test it with one question: would I love to live this day again and again?
• How to read your energy, the lift of positive, anabolic energy or the heaviness of draining, catabolic energy, and what to ask when the picture feels heavy, plus what Kavita’s own ordinary Tuesday looks like fifteen years from now

Press play to walk through an ordinary day in your next chapter and find out whether it would fulfill you or simply keep you busy.

Kavita would love to send you the Inner Mentor Exercise, a guided visualization where you meet your future self, the wisest version of you, who is already living that life. Email her directly at kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com to request it.

And if you’d like to picture your next chapter alongside other women asking the same questions, join the waiting list and share what you’d love to see in Kavita’s group program and community opening in January.

Episodes mentioned:

Episode 352: How to Design Your Next 15 Years on Purpose in a Midlife Career and Life Transition

Episode 344: What to Do When You Can’t Tell If You’re Burned Out or Ready to Leave Your Career, with Andrea Maizes

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What would your next 15 years look like if you designed them on purpose? And what if you have so many options for your next chapter that you can’t decide which one to choose?

For many women in a career or life transition, the challenge isn’t a lack of options. It’s never having had the time to picture what they want clearly enough to choose. Continuing the visioning step of the Pyramid of Reinvention, Kavita’s six-step process for moving from confusion to clarity, this episode takes the Odyssey Plan from the bestselling book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, and stretches it across your next 15 years, part of what Ikigai co-author Francesc Miralles calls an ocean of time. With layoffs and AI reshaping work, those years are coming either way, so who decides what they look like, you or your circumstances?

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why the next 15 years of your life may be the ones most worth designing on purpose, and why they don’t have to look the same as the first part of your career
• How to use the Odyssey Plan, a way of sketching three very different futures, to picture the life you’re living now carried forward, what you’d do if that path disappeared, and the life you’d choose if money and other people’s opinions didn’t matter
• How your Ikigai, your reason for being, and the lift of positive, anabolic energy can help you decide which version is right for you, plus how Kavita blended all three versions into her own plan at 60

Press play to picture three versions of your next 15 years and start designing the one that’s right for you, on purpose.

To go one step further, email kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com for the free Inner Mentor Exercise, a guided visualization where you meet your future self, and share what your three versions look like. And if you’d like to picture your next chapter alongside other women doing the same work, join the waitlist and share what you’d love to see in Kavita’s group program and community opening in January.

Ready to talk through your next chapter one-on-one? Book your Complimentary Clarity Call

Episodes mentioned:

Episode 346: The Pyramid of Reinvention overview

Episode 350: What Staying May Be Costing You, with Carol Lin

Episode 351: How You Want to Be Remembered

Episode 277: Ikigai Explained: How Purpose Evolves

Episode 278: Francesc Miralles, co-author of Ikigai

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Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.

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New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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If you could choose the words people will use about you one day, would they match the life you’re living right now?

Most of us assume we’ll be remembered for our title, our years of service, or the roles we held the longest. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday’s episode 350 with former CNN anchor Carol Lin, that assumption gets turned around. When Carol describes her legacy, she doesn’t mention a single job, and Ikigai co-author Francesc Miralles names a greatest success that has nothing to do with selling millions of books. Their answers continue visioning, the second step of the Pyramid of Reinvention, where you begin to picture what you want your next chapter in a career or life transition to truly mean.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why one simple question can cut through everything that looks impressive from the outside and brings career clarity to what matters most to you now
• What Carol Lin and Francesc Miralles each hope to be remembered for, and what their answers may reveal about your own
• A simple exercise to write the words you’d love to be remembered by, and one small step to start living your way toward them this week

Press play to write the words you’d love to hear about your life, and start living your way toward them in your next chapter.

Kavita would love to send you the Inner Mentor Exercise, a guided visualization where you meet your future self, the wisest version of you, and hear what she wants you to know about your next chapter. Email her directly at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com to request it.

And if you’d like to picture your next chapter alongside other women in transition, Kavita is opening a group program and community in January. Join the waiting list and share what you’d like to see.

_________________________

Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.

Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube