Shift: 7 Mindsets for an Inspired Midlife - Softcover

Reek, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1774586509 ISBN 13: 9781774586501

Publisher: Page Two Press, 2025

Synopsis

Step into midlife with more confidence, depth, and clarity.

When you focus on what aging adds to your life, rather than on what it takes away, you can take on your second half with renewed energy, focus, and intention. In Shift: 7 Mindsets for an Inspired Midlife, business-leader-turned-coach Peter Reek encourages you to embrace the potential that midlife offers—because the richness of midlife is something you can create with your own hands, heart, and mind. The second half can be the most expansive part of your journey—a time for renewal, for growth, for diving deep into the things that truly satisfy your soul.

Drawing from his experience coaching hundreds of professionals, as well as his own hard-won life lessons, Reek shares how to shape your path by redefining success and reconnecting with what matters most. He emboldens you to draw on your resilience, stay solution-focused, and keep moving forward with intention.

From this perspective, you can genuinely and fully inhabit midlife by embracing three commitments: to lead your whole self well, to tell yourself the truth, and to practice radical acceptance. Reek reveals how mindset, a key aspect of life you have some command over, puts you in control of how your reactions affect you and your future. He teaches seven essential mindset shifts to transform the way you move through the world:

Shift into Curiosity
Shift into Connection
Shift into Response-Ability
Shift into Alignment
Shift into Befriending Your Body
Shift into Stillness
Shift into Brave

An easy read full of useful tips, Peter Reek’s Shift calls you to live each day with grace and the kind of authenticity that lights up your soul. This isn’t about changing who you are. It is about embracing who you are becoming. It is about reflecting on what you’ve learned in the first half, then deciding what you want to carry forward and what you want to leave behind. It is about going all in and living midlife like you mean it.

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About the Author

Peter Reek is an author, coach, educator, business owner, and trailblazer. Over three decades in business leadership, recruitment, and coaching, he worked with iconic brands like lululemon, Expedia, Mercedes, and Nintendo. After years of building businesses and leading teams across the globe, Reek felt called to explore life's bigger questions-the kind that make you wonder about what truly lasts. This led him to earn a master's degree in applied positive psychology and coaching, where he deepened his study of what it means to live fully and meaningfully as we age.From this passion, he founded InHabit.Life(TM) and InHabit Magazine-platforms devoted to midlife transformation through writing, counseling, coaching, and community. Shift is Reek's first book. He lives with his family in Vancouver, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Page Two Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1774586509
• ISBN 13: 9781774586501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286