What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Retrain your Brain to Think on Purpose: Why it’s important to think on purpose. Why you have to make a big effort to think on purpose. How to remind yourself to think on purpose. How thinking on purpose can change the outcomes in your life....
Continue readingDo you scream for ice cream? Yummy mindfulness
I’m sure you remember that little ditty from childhood, “I scream, you scream, we all scream ice cream!” Even in midlife, several decades after you and your friends would “sing it,” it’s pretty much STUCK up there in your mind. STUCK. LIKE. GLUE. It’s like that with lots of songs and tunes actually. More...
Continue readingAre you a woman in the middle? Loving your life after 50
Do you love your life at this point in your life, over 50? I’ve started to think about this age and stage of midlife as being a WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE. Now, we all know that a certain age in midlife isn’t necessarily the “middle” of your life. We have no clue how long...
Continue readingTechnology doesn’t have to make you feel old
Why is it that certain technology can make you feel old? I remember when my grandmother moved into our house back in the 1980s. She was in her 80s and from a small town in Pennsylvania. Her name was Ethel. She did not like the microwave. She didn’t understand it. She didn’t want to...
Continue readingLosing my job and rediscovering myself: My two year dream-aversary
Not all anniversaries are created equal, like when it’s related to losing your job. I never thought about losing my job and anniversary in the same sentence. It seems like one of my most prevalent thoughts in my 50s is, “where does the time go?” It was two years ago this week that I...
Continue readingThe Road to 50
Turning 50 can really shake you up. Let’s face it, you know you’re turning 50 for years. The anticipation doesn’t help. There’s a really big build up. There is nothing you can do that will slow things down. It’s kind of like being pregnant. The outcome is predictable and on a somewhat predictable date....
Continue readingWhat motivates you? It’s probably been the same most of your life!
I was always motivated to to help people. I’ve been fascinated by human behaviour my whole life. Thinking about what motivates you is a really important thing to do. Like you, life gets in the way. Before I knew it, a few decades went by and I realized I wasn’t doing exactly what I...
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