Don't You Dare Stop Dreaming

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Don't You Dare Stop Dreaming: A Midlife Guide to Rekindling Goals Grit & Grace is not your typical self-help book. It doesn't preach pressure or promise a perfect life in six easy steps. Instead it invites you to sit down breathe deep and remember that your story isn't over-it's just getting good.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written with both humor and hope this bold midlife manifesto by artist speaker and creative Susan D. Sharp is a breath of fresh funny and faith-filled air. It meets you in the messy middle-with career changes caregiving chaos stalled dreams and questions that keep you up at 2 a.m.-and reminds you that dreaming isn't something we outgrow. It's something we come back to with more clarity courage and coffee.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through true stories of late bloomers and bold re-starters-like the painter who didn't pick up a brush until after retirement the woman who started a cupcake business from her basement and the man who finally finished the children's book he shelved decades earlier-this book reveals how transformation is possible even when life hasn't gone to plan.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With insights from modern thinkers like Marsha Sinetar (Do What You Love The Money Will Follow) Danielle Krysa (Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk) and Elle Luna (The Crossroads of Should and Must) you'll learn to:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Embrace your evolving definition of success</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Take tiny consistent steps toward a revitalized dream</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Make peace with past detours and detours still to come</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Speak your longings out loud-without apology</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Say yes to joy hobbies and creative play</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Invite collaboration and ask for help boldly</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Discern between ego goals and legacy goals</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pitch pivot and persist with God as your ultimate encourager</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Each chapter includes journal prompts what if? exercises biblical wisdom and space to reflect on how God still delights in your dreams. You'll be reminded that failure isn't the end-it's fertilizer. That play isn't frivolous-it's fuel. And that midlife isn't about fading out. It's about turning up the volume on your voice your vision and your victory.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether you're in your 40s 50s 60s or beyond-if your spark feels dim or your goals feel out of reach this book is your friendly nudge and heartfelt permission slip. You don't have to be famous flawless or fearless. You just have to be willing to say yes to the next brave step.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Don't You Dare Stop Dreaming is part pep talk part prayer part creative workbook-and all grace.</span></p>