Habits can be hard to break. Especially in midlife. Do you know how habits develop? Habits are just practiced behavior that eventually become involuntary; midlife habits can be hard to break. Whatever you practice becomes a habit. What you practice DOING becomes a habit. What you practice NOT DOING also becomes a habit. This...
Continue readingEP #36: Why Multitasking is Bad for Your Health in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Why Multi-tasking is Bad for Your Health in Midlife: Why it’s common to think multitasking makes you more productive. How multitasking actually slows you down. Why multitasking feels efficient. Why multitasking is really “switchtasking.” Tips to focus on one thing at a time. Welcome to another episode...
Continue readingWhy being grateful for your body is a good idea
How often do you feel grateful? More and more of us are starting to understand the importance of having more gratitude in our lives. Like anything, it takes practice to develop new habits. And for many, feeling gratitude more often is a new habit. But what about the way you feel about YOU ?...
Continue readingMindfulness: Do your thoughts need supervision?
Do you practice mindfulness? The concept that your thoughts need supervision is something I learned in Thomas M. Sterner’s book, The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in your Life. It’s all about mindfulness and it’s a powerful concept at all ages and stages, not just midlife. It’s also a concept that gives you...
Continue readingThe art of practice
When’s the last time you practiced something new? Everything in life is practice even though you may not think of it that way. You practice what you want, and you also practice what you don’t want. And what you practice becomes a habit. I’ve recently had an amazing opportunity to be in a small...
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