Prologue | I Decided to Live Again at Forty-One 4

Part 1 | The Essence of Dreams - It's Time to Bring Me Out Again

How to Become the Star of Golden Time 17
Rescue Your Dying Dreams 27
Comparatives cannot be the best 36
There's no dream that makes your heart race from the start. 41
Follow the signals your heart sends you 50

Part 2 | Discovering Your Dreams - How to Meet Your Future Self First

Dreams are the language of growth, not success. 65
Dreams are simply about being yourself 72
Go in the direction that the deficiency points 80
The power of 4:30 a.m. nurtures dreams 87
Meet the best teacher in your life 96
Dreams are the best way to love myself 106

Part 3 | Dream Vision: How to Earn and Live Your Way

Working Moms: It's Not Your Fault 115
You don't want to live like your mom? I just want to live as long as your mom. 121
The Rationalist of Dreams Learns Dreams from Money 130
137 Ways Moms Can Manage Their Long-Term Life Without Burnout
Write a CEO Diary, Not a Household Account Book 144

Part 4 | The Destiny of Dreams - Even if Life Tests You

153 Bad Tech Tips for When Fate Plays a Role
Self-Healing System 163: How to Save Yourself in a Recession
Life Interpretation: The Difference Between Happiness and Unhappiness 176
I wish I had a wife too 186

Part 5: Making Your Dreams Come True - How to Make Your Dreams Stronger

Designing a Two-tiered Life Structure in the 120-Year-Old Era 191
There are no dreams that suddenly come true one day. 198
Time is your weapon, don't kill it 204
Relationships Need Strategy Too 214
Wife is the CEO of a startup called Family 225

Part 6 | Dream Companion - How to Make Your Husband Your Dream Partner

A couple is parents who nurture each other's dreams. 231
Husband, He Deserves Happiness Too 238
Raising Your Husband to Become "Daddy-Long-Legs" 248
3 Steps to Building Your Partnership 254
262 Ways to Protect Your Husband's Self-Esteem

Part 7 | Dream Connections: Children Learn to Dream Through Their Mothers

My Child's Mountain Textbook is "Mom" 271
280 Seeds of Positivity Your Child Will Carry for a Lifetime
A Mother's Way of Talking to Her Child's Heart 287
How to Make Your Child the Protagonist of His or Her Life 293

Kim Mi-kyung's greatest work, which moved 3 million viewers to tears
1.85 million subscribers on YouTube [Kim Mi-kyung TV] The definitive life lecture
Instructor Kim Mi-kyung's 30-year compilation of "Dreams and Growth" content.

Kim Mi-kyung's life lectures are now available in a book.
[Kim Mi-kyung's Life Lessons] Series, Part 1
"A Wife with a Dream Never Ages" is now available!

The first book in the "Kim Mi-kyung's Life Lessons" series, which compiles the life lectures of Kim Mi-kyung, Korea's top lecturer who has inspired courage, challenge, and passion in countless people through lectures on stage, TV, and YouTube, and a female mentor who encourages women's dreams and growth.
We have compiled the content of Kim Mi-kyung's "Dreams and Growth," which has led to the "self-discovery and growth" of Korean women, into a single book.

This book is the latest upgraded version of 『A Wife with a Dream Never Ages』 and 『Kim Mi-kyung's Dream On』, which were loved by 500,000 readers. It is a collection of realistic solutions and advice for women who want to live their dreams as a wife, mother, and human being, based on Kim Mi-kyung's own know-how of growing her dreams after marriage.
This book is born as a more powerful "self-help book for women" with the author's deepened insight, who has consistently pursued her dreams at the age of 61, along with the latest lecture messages on preparing for the 120-year lifespan and how to overcome the worst recession in history.

Wouldn't it be better to quit your job and raise your child properly?
'Will I be able to go back to work and earn money after raising a child?'
'Is it too late to start something?'

A woman's real life begins after marriage.
A letter to women who have put themselves on the back burner because they are busy being a wife and mother.
Kim Mi-kyung's warm comfort and empathy, refreshing advice and prescriptions!

As of 2024, the female economic participation rate will be 56%, and the dual-income population will exceed 48%.
For one in two married women, every day is a battle between working and sending their children to daycare and school.
Although husbands' participation in childcare and housework has increased, wives still spend nearly three times more time on housework than their husbands, and among children, there are many who are mothers' children, but few who are fathers' children.
In this situation, wives are faced with countless worries between work, family, themselves, and their children.

For mothers who leave their crying and whining children behind and go to work, guilt creeps in along with the thought, "How much money do I earn doing this?"
Stay-at-home moms who take a leave of absence or quit their jobs to raise their children are often faced with the fear of whether they will be able to return to society, earn money, and be recognized.
Women in their 50s and 60s who have left childcare behind are facing a sense of uncertainty surrounding the planning of their second life as the life expectancy clock extends to 120 years.

This book is filled with heartwarming, empathetic stories and realistic, sober advice for women who are struggling and wavering at crossroads in life that men wouldn't have to worry about, or that they wouldn't have encountered if they hadn't gotten married and had children.
For working moms, it offers techniques to find the right balance between work and family life. For stay-at-home moms, it offers ways to use time and relationships to reclaim themselves. And for those who are discouraged and wondering if it's too late to dream, it offers bold advice: "Subtract 'twenty' from your life age!"

Even as times change, the framework of motherhood and sacrifice remains, and idealistic and sentimental approaches cannot solve any of the realities.
Kim Mi-kyung is a unique and irreplaceable role model who will change the reality of women.

The era of 120 years is coming! The time is now.
When checking your life planning and execution skills

Kim Mi-kyung, who has practically retired from the military at the age of 61 this year, has finally found the freedom she has dreamed of her entire life.
Now you can plan your time perfectly for yourself.
But there was one thing that held her back.
She was exactly sixty-one years old.
Is it too late to start something? But these days, with the average lifespan approaching 120 years,
Even if we change the average life expectancy to 100 years, the age of 60 is not 10 PM, but a little after 2 PM.
After lunch, it's the most active time of the day.
The day she realized this, she decided to boldly subtract 'twenty' from her life age!

“The basis of dreams, past or present, is ‘a heart that loves myself very much.’
Every question that arises here is the beginning of moving towards your dream.
'How do I determine the value of my time, and what should I fill it with?' The most important answer I found at the age of sixty-one was to change the 'location of time.'
“Changing the age of sixty-one to forty-one is the way I have found to love myself to the fullest.” ― From the prologue, page 6

This is what led her to compile the content of her 'dreams and growth'.
After resetting the timeline at the age of 41, I needed the 'planning ability to redesign and prepare for life.'
In this way, I summoned the dream content that I had written with such passionate and experienced energy and combined it with my current experiences to create this book.


“I summoned the dream content written with passion and experience by Kim Mi-kyung in her 40s, integrated it into myself today, and reconstructed it.
From those in their 30s who have just started a family to those in their 60s, my age, this book covers everything we need to know about dreams, from the definition of dreams to the stages of dreams and specific methods of implementation.
This book is the essence of my 30-year teaching career that began with ‘dreams’ and continues to this day.” - Page 9, from the prologue

What is a woman's dream in life?
How to Get Your Heart Thrilling Again

This book is divided into seven parts.
The book begins with a 'prologue' in which the author, who is 61, resets the time to 41 by subtracting '20' from her actual age, and continues with seven keywords: the essence of dreams, discovery, vision, destiny, execution, companionship, and connection, containing a growth story that women will continue throughout their lives.

In Part 1, 'The Essence of Dreams,' the author deeply empathizes with the reality of women who lose their names while juggling work, family, housework, and childcare, and tells the vivid life story of how a life of pursuing dreams is different despite this.
For her, her dream is to take control of her own life and to embark on a journey to meet the golden time of her life.
Her story of 30 years ago, when she started a reckless challenge as a 'corporate instructor' after running a piano academy as a working mom, ignites a small spark in the hearts of readers.

Part 2, 'Discovering Your Dreams', provides a guide to finding your dreams for those who say, "I don't know what my dream is yet."
Dreams begin from 'lack'.
If you feel like you don't have anything right now, that you're starting later than others, or that you lack talent or ability, then you should go in the direction that 'lack' points to.
For those who hesitate, thinking, “I guess this isn’t my dream,” Kim Mi-kyung’s advice, “Just do it when you’re 10 percent ready,” will be a panacea.

Part 3, “Dream Vision,” presents a realistic prescription for working moms who are wondering, “Wouldn’t it be better to quit work and raise my children properly?”
If you are a mother who has had to tear up while trying to get your crying child out of the car and going to work, thinking, "How much money do I earn doing this?", you will 200% empathize with me and learn how to balance work and family life.

Unemployment, financial crisis, child wandering, and even maternal depression
How to overcome life's unexpected crises

Part 4, “The Fate of Dreams,” then discusses how to overcome crises that may come to a family, including the breadwinner’s unemployment, a family’s financial crisis, a teenager’s wanderings, and a mother’s depression.
For those going through difficult times due to the unprecedented economic downturn, Kim Mi-kyung's life interpretation method, which distinguishes between "happiness" and "unhappiness," offers deep comfort and inspiration.

Part 5, 'Dream Execution,' explores how women can prepare for a second career in the 120-year lifespan by utilizing the weapons they possess: time and relationships.
What women need to keep in mind is that with life expectancy increasing significantly, husbands are suddenly coming home.
Women have an advantage when it comes to preparing for the second half of life.
Let's design a second leap forward by utilizing women's weapons.

Part 6, 'Dream Companion', deals with practical couple coaching.
For women to stand on the stage of their dreams, their husband's partnership is essential.
It contains relationship skills and communication techniques to help couples embrace the loneliness and isolation of their breadwinner husbands and become strong partners.

Part 7 'Dream Connection' The final part deals with the formula of 'dream and growth' that starts from the mother and connects to the child.
If you want to raise your child to be a positive, self-directed child with high self-esteem, you must change as a mother.
Because the mother herself is the ‘living textbook’ from which the child learns.

This book, which alternates between empathy and emotion, reflection and determination, is a novel that captures the stories of married women in Korea, an autobiographical essay that vividly captures the life of the author, Kim Mi-kyung, and a comprehensive self-help book that covers self-management, financial planning, psychology, marital relationships, and childcare.

A unique way to interpret life and powerful motivation
"The only person who can replace Kim Mi-kyung is Kim Mi-kyung."

Kim Mi-kyung, a lecturer with 3 million audiences over 30 years, author of over 20 bestselling books, and creator of a YouTube channel with 1.85 million subscribers.
What is the power that captivates countless audiences and readers? What has made her so enduringly beloved? The secret likely lies in Kim Mi-kyung's unique life story and her unique interpretation of life.


“The people who have lived a wonderful and successful life in this world are not those who have always been happy, but those who have endured the curse to the end, dug through it, found the thread of happiness, and created happiness.
“Happiness is not something that is predetermined, but something that is discovered without one’s knowledge in the process of striving to be happy.” - Page 184, from ‘The Interpretation of Life that Distinguishes Happiness and Unhappiness’

Kim Mi-kyung's unique interpretation of life, offering comfort and courage to women through the unconventional combination of "dream" and "wife," and inspiring passion and challenge with the poignant anecdote that "the moment you turn on your dream switch, your life changes 10 years from now," is the essence of her unique approach to life! We will always support you as you dream of a life that excites your heart.