During the past year, social and cultural expectations and lifestyle traditions relating to age, as well as the influence of the retirement culture, have played a huge role in how you as an older individual have changed and aged. You probably are not aware of how many of those expectations and traditions have influenced your aging process, and how you think about aging. If … [Read more...] about Forces That Shape Your Life
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Thoughts on the Flu
Just a few words about the purported "flu epidemic". I am not sure when people will finally realize that flu shots do not prevent the flu. Most people are very much aware that these shots can provide side effects that are similar to symptoms of the flu.
The CDC appears to be closely connected to the drug companies who sell the vaccines, and I suspect … [Read more...] about Thoughts on the Flu
Choose Your IMAGE of Age, or Your IMAGE Will Choose Your Age For You!
What makes the best of us older than we should and can be Most of us think we know what age is to us; however we miss the most important point. We may know how we feel, what we like or don’t like, what we’d wish for or what we put up with… Yet the most amazing and simple point that most of us haven’t considered is inside our mind, and that is … [Read more...] about Choose Your IMAGE of Age, or Your IMAGE Will Choose Your Age For You!
When or How Do You Know It’s You Who Needs to Change?
Are you able to be aware of when you need to change or adjust something about yourself? Or is it easier or more comfortable to think others and life are the ones that need to change?
One of the ways I know I need to change is when I find myself thinking thoughts in a certain way for an extended time, or I think pretty much the same types of thoughts … [Read more...] about When or How Do You Know It’s You Who Needs to Change?
Seizing On Life’s Unexpected Opportunities: My Sudan Journey
Like many women in their late 60s, I’d enjoyed a varied career and also raised four children and a foster son, mostly as a single parent. In 2000, at 62, I’d gone off to join the Peace Corps in Honduras, and, after returning to the States, for the first time, became a Spanish interpreter and freelance writer, while also looking after my mother in her last years. Then, in … [Read more...] about Seizing On Life’s Unexpected Opportunities: My Sudan Journey
Beautiful at Any Age
A friend in her 60s who has kept her trademark long blonde hair joined me for breakfast looking twenty years younger in a hip maxi dress and shell jewellery after her daily two hour yoga session and swapped notes on her latest travels to exotic destinations. Later that day another friend in her 70s met me for lunch looking customarily chic with her signature … [Read more...] about Beautiful at Any Age
Dreading ‘Old Age’
I am often amazed and amused by the various attitudes many have regarding getting ‘old’. Some refuse to discuss the subject while to others age is a fact of life and they don’t fret about it. Each of us is a certain age; we can’t do a thing about the truth. We can joke about it, lie about it or be realistic about it.
Some spend most of their years dreading ‘old age’. … [Read more...] about Dreading ‘Old Age’
Five Motivational Ways to Age Backwards
You’ve probably heard expressions like “60 is the new 40.” The truth is actually that anyone can be 68 going on 50. All you need is a motivational mindset. Then you, too, can start counting the calendar backwards at each birthday.
Beyond good diet and exercise – which are critical for anyone at any age – getting motivated is the key to aging well. Here are five … [Read more...] about Five Motivational Ways to Age Backwards
What You Don’t Know Can And Does Cost You And Your Family Money
When it comes to finances, ignorance is not bliss. What you aren’t aware of and don't take advantage of often leaves you as the one being taken advantage of. You have a choice: you can either believe that what you planned for, purchased and put in place for your financial future years ago, is still in your financial best interest today, or you can acknowledge and explore … [Read more...] about What You Don’t Know Can And Does Cost You And Your Family Money
Are You Emotionally Wounded?
Carolyn Myss once said that when we tell someone about our emotional wounds, we’ve let them know how the relationship will be manipulated. This “information” also reveals how we live. A friend recently experienced a catharsis that took her through and beyond old wounds, wounds that caused her to armor herself since childhood, without really realizing to what degree this … [Read more...] about Are You Emotionally Wounded?
