Every year as December winds down, I start to think about what my resolutions will be for the upcoming year. Not that I am a big fan of that word; it seems a little extreme. Being resolute about doing (or…
Do you ever feel like you could really use a win? It doesn’t have to be anything huge, like a triumph in sports or scoring a promotion—though those are pretty great too—but just any sort of victory. Sometimes everything, big…
Blogging Tips Revisited Before I first started my blog, I did a lot of research, focusing on what would make it successful. But the word success can be ambiguous, especially as it relates to blogging. Some measure success by monetary…
Recently I have stepped away from my blog and focused more on creative writing. I have been working on an idea for a novel for some time now and it’s finally starting to move forward, however slowly. I have never…
We all have them. Words that we hear or read that inspire, motivate, and make us want to live our lives in a more positive way. In order to remember them in the course of our hectic day, we may…
When we are younger, we are often encouraged to push beyond our comfort zones in order to make progress. However, this is much easier said than done. Our comfort zone is a psychological state in which we feel secure, familiar,…
It is a common opinion among the over-60 crowd that the world we live in today is considerably inferior to the one we grew up in. I hear about this a lot lately whenever I am with a group of…
It has always seemed to me that we live our lives in chapters and turning 60 began a new one for me. This stage seems like the perfect time to shed some negative behaviors, chill out and live lighter. Tough…
Aside from a vague notion to write in some capacity, I never really thought too much about goal-setting in my retirement. Isn’t retirement a time to sit back and reap the rewards of many years of hard work? Yet here…
As I looked forward to retirement a couple of years ago I understood that my life would slow down. What I didn’t foresee was how much would change about me. As far back as I can remember I have wanted…