I didn’t know exactly what that would look like. In fact, when I first discussed the idea with friends, one of them asked what I hoped to accomplish with the Best-Life Project. I didn’t have a particularly good answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am just doing what I feel God is telling me to do,\u201d I told her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was really about all I knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve told the whole story in my Best-Life Dream Story<\/strong>,<\/a> but the short version is that the dream wouldn’t leave me alone. Eventually, it became the Best-Life Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few months after we launched the website in February 2023, I wrote a piece simply called Post #50<\/a><\/strong>. We were only 113 days old, and I was amazed that we had already published 50 articles from 18 different contributors. People from around the world were finding us. Our Facebook following was growing. Readers were commenting and sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I still didn’t really know what the Best-Life Project would become. I was simply delighted that it was becoming<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, four years after that original dream, I have a little more perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some things have happened exactly as I imagined. Some haven’t. And some things have surprised me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps one of the nicest surprises is discovering that people are out there reading even when I don’t know they’re there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, a woman I’d had lunch with sent me a message: \u201cThanks for sharing this. I am enjoying reading the blogs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another wrote after reading a post, \u201cGreat read! Love this group! Thank you for being obedient and following your God-given dream.\u201d Then she added something that especially caught my attention: \u201cI keep saying I’m going to write something….. don’t count me out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Messages like those mean more to me than the people who send them probably realize. They remind me that the Best-Life Project reaches women I may never hear from\u2014and that some of those women may have stories of their own waiting to be told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I first imagined the Best-Life Project, I thought finding contributors might be the easy part. My mother and I had spent years through CLASSeminars helping people develop their gifts as speakers and writers. I knew so many talented women with experiences, wisdom and ideas worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I’ve learned is that a community of contributors doesn’t necessarily mean the same women writing month after month, year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People contribute for a season. Lives change. Some women contribute once. Some share many pieces. Some step away and may circle back again. I’m grateful for every person who has entrusted the Best-Life Project with something she\u2014or occasionally he\u2014believed was worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve also become less interested in finding \u201cwriters\u201d and more interested in finding women who have something worth saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You may have one story in you. That’s enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe you’ve learned something about friendship at this age. Maybe you’ve started something you never expected to start, survived something difficult, changed your mind about something, discovered a new purpose\u2014or done something for no better reason than because it sounded like fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those are Best-Life stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you’re sitting quietly on the sidelines thinking, I have something I could say, but I’m not really a writer,<\/em> please don’t let that stop you. We can help with the editing. We’re not trying to make every contributor sound alike. We’re trying to help each woman communicate what only she can bring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are also subjects I’d particularly love to see us explore more. Organization, d\u00e9cor and fashion<\/strong> come immediately to mind. You don’t need to be a professional organizer, interior designer or fashion expert. Perhaps you’ve finally figured out what to do with 40 years of accumulated stuff. Maybe you’ve changed the way your home works for this season of your life. Maybe you’ve discovered how you want to dress now\u2014not how someone says a woman \u201cyour age\u201d should dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tell us about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over these four years, the Best-Life Project has been finding its own voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ve become increasingly interested not simply in what women over 60 need to know, but in what women who have already lived a lot of life know\u2014and what we can learn from one another.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s why you’ll see more of our articles growing out of personal experiences. Something happened. Something changed. Something was tried, survived, discovered or learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We aren’t looking for women who have all the answers. We’re interested in women willing to say, Here’s what happened to me. Maybe there’s something in my experience that will speak to yours.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You may have noticed some visual changes around here, too. We’re developing a more recognizable look for the Best-Life Project, and with each new article we’ve begun creating what we call a mirror quote<\/strong>\u2014a graphic built around one thought we hope will stay with you after you’ve finished reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe it’s something you’ll actually want to print and tape to your bathroom mirror as a reminder. Or maybe the mirror is only figurative\u2014a thought worth carrying with you, sharing with a friend or returning to when you need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because ultimately, I don’t just want you to read a Best-Life article. I hope something in it goes with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One thought has increasingly come to express what I believe the Best-Life Project is becoming:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The road ahead still matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At this stage of life, it’s easy to measure ourselves by what’s behind us\u2014what we’ve accomplished, whom we’ve raised, where we’ve worked, what we’ve built, what we’ve lost, even who we used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what about what’s still ahead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are still things to learn. People to meet. Places to go. Friendships to deepen. Ways to serve. Reasons to laugh. Things to anticipate. New things to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are still firsts ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And if the road ahead still matters, then so do the stories of the women traveling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s where you come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe you’ll contribute an article. Maybe you’ll read one and leave a comment that encourages its author. Maybe you’ll share a post because you know another woman who needs it. Maybe you’ll tell a friend about the Best-Life Project. Maybe you’ll invite someone whose story ought to be here to tell it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s how an online community becomes a community\u2014not simply through what gets published, but through what happens after we put it out into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Four years ago, I didn’t know exactly what the Best-Life Project would become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I still don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I’ve decided that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because four years later, the Best-Life Project is still becoming. And so are we.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The road ahead still matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s see where it takes us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please read these foundational posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best Life Dream Story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Best-Life Definition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nWatching an Idea Become Something Real<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What I’ve Learned About Our Contributors<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Best-Life Project Is Becoming, Too<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Road Ahead Still Matters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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