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Jennifer Boykin helps women recapture their Mid-Life Mojo. She speaks and writes as the Creative Visionary and Chief Rabble-Rouser of the MidLife Reinvention site, Life After Tampons. As of TODAY, Jennifer has launched registration her first small-group workshop, Craft Your Comeback. Learn more HERE.

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I Don’t Have to Be Perfect: Itā€™s the Leap That Counts

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ā€œA good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.ā€ ~Proverb

Iā€™m a ā€œrecovering perfectionist.ā€

I make perfect plans. At times, when Iā€™m really working on my plans, I forget to live my actual life. Because Iā€™m planning. Perfectly.

I had my first strategic plan when I was ten.

ā€œBe a really, really good girl. Then, when you are sixteen, borrow the car and say that you are going to Drug Fair to buy hairspray. Instead, drive the fifteen minutes to your daddyā€™s house so that heā€™ll want you back.ā€

A year later I had to revise my first …

Will You Get Bitter or Better?

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“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.” ~Proverb

I am a member of a mercifully small subset of society. I am the mother of a dead child.

Twenty years ago, my daughter Graceā€”my first child, my only girlā€”was born prematurely and died 32-minutes later. As I write this, I am astonished that it has been twenty years since I met my daughter for the only time.

Time stopped for me when Grace took her last little breath. And I was certain that my life could never start again.Ā 

I …