The 50+ Nomad

The 50+ Nomad

What's Your One Thing?

What I figured out at 2:30am with muffins and guava jam..

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Jo Barnes
Jun 08, 2026
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Gratuitous ocean image from Tayrona National Park - Colombia 🇨🇴

What’s your one thing?

I’ve asked this before, many times, so if you’ve been with me for a while you may have heard me ask you already. But that doesn’t matter. You need to hear it again. Especially if you’re older, a bit slower (yep comes to us all) and your brain can only focus on one thing at a time!

Remember the days - especially ladies - when we could do a hundred things at once?

Gosh, I could make a shopping list, plan my daughters after school activities for the week, discuss the business with my husband, and listen to the convo happening on the next table all in one go!

I don’t know about you, but age (and likely the menopause) put paid to that rather fab skill. 🙄

Anyway, at roughly 2.30am on Sunday morning while eating muffins with guava jam (don’t ask), I had a breakthrough!

I was awake wrestling with a challenge that’s been on my mind for weeks (even months).

How to grow The 50+ Nomad while also promoting and focusi…

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