🎯 Hitting the Bull’s Eye: Sonal Chauhan’s Midlife Reboot

At 36, Sonal Chauhan found herself at a crossroads. On paper, life looked picture-perfect — a successful corporate career in marketing, a loving family, and the role of a hands-on mother. Yet inside, she felt something was missing.

Her days were packed with meetings, deadlines, childcare, and the never-ending responsibilities of modern womanhood. Work had become routine. Life felt like survival. “I didn’t want to just keep going like this for the next 20 years,” she recalls. “I wanted to grow.”

And that’s when an unexpected discovery changed everything.

From Stress Buster to Passion

One weekend, looking for a new way to de-stress, Sonal signed up at a neighborhood shooting club. She had never imagined holding a gun, let alone aiming at a bull’s eye. Yet the first pull of the trigger gave her something she hadn’t felt in years — a sense of calm, focus, and alignment.

What started as a weekend stress-buster soon became a daily ritual. After work, after picking up her child from daycare, she would head straight to the shooting range. “Even after a long day of chaos, I still had the energy to dedicate an hour to the sport,” she says.

That one hour became her pause button — a moment to breathe, focus, and center herself. Slowly, shooting turned from a hobby into a passion, and then into a calling.

Breaking Stereotypes

Contrary to the common belief that shooting is a sport of aggression, Sonal discovered its true essence: patience, poise, and presence of mind. “You cannot hit the bull’s eye if you aren’t calm and focused,” she explains.

The sport stripped away years of corporate conditioning that had made her aggressive and reactive. Shooting grounded her, teaching her to align her mind, body, and breath.

In the same year that she quit her job, Sonal qualified for the National Shooting Competition — proof that it’s never too late to start afresh and excel.

Challenges, Choices & Courage

Choosing shooting over a steady corporate career wasn’t easy. The financial uncertainties, the training expenses, and the initial resistance from family all added to the challenge. But Sonal stayed determined.

“Life is about challenges. I knew I was taking a calculated risk, but it was one I wanted to take. And today, I’m so much more satisfied with how it all panned out,” she reflects.

Her journey also redefined how she saw midlife. “We are as old as our biological and psychological age, not our chronological one,” she says with conviction. Alongside shooting, Sonal also embraced fitness, weight training, and yoga— proving that age is no barrier to strength or agility.

A New Mission

Now, Sonal isn’t just pursuing shooting for herself. She’s planning to launch her own academy to train and inspire others — especially women — to find confidence, focus, and inner strength through the sport.

For her, every shot is a metaphor for life. “Each shot is a new chance. You have no escape for self-doubt. Every shot is a new life,” she smiles.

Sonal’s Midlife Mantra 🌸

Give yourself time to introspect.
Don’t let limiting beliefs hold you back.
Plan your leap, but don’t be afraid to take it.
Remember: You’ve got one life. Live it to your liking.

✨ From the chaos of boardrooms to the calm of the shooting range, Sonal Chauhan’s story is a reminder that midlife is not an ending — it’s a powerful new beginning.