![]() ![]() After decades in journalism, teaching and management, this felt intuitively right. When I was 49, at the end of my last seven-year cycle, I decided the second half of my life would be the creative half. Professional or personal shifts have occurred every seven years I’ve either been finishing or starting a course or qualification, taking on a new job or promotion, marking the beginning or end of a significant relationship, moving home, into pregnancy or motherhood. But, I arrived at the conclusion by tracking my own life across this curious sequence, and was intrigued to discover every seventh year did represent a change or new stage. ![]() There are many belief systems that promote this view: philosophical, astrological, mystical, biological and pedagogical (more of which later). Unlike some who see life in a linear formation (you’re born, you work, you die) I believe our lives are made up of a series of cycles that bring opportunities for replenishment, rejuvenation and reinvention. 56 marks the final year of one seven-year cycle and heralds the start of another. For some, a year closer to death is no reason to celebrate, but I feel optimistic. ![]()
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