As a Woman Over 55 You Still Are Your Own Person

As a Woman Over 55 You Still Are Your Own Person

You Still Are Your Own Person. When you read that, what is your first reaction?  I suspect for many of you it’s a “duh,” or something a bit more challenging, “Of course I’m my own person.”  But I’d encourage you to just sit with that a moment and make absolutely sure...
Do You Feel As If You’re Making a Difference?

Do You Feel As If You’re Making a Difference?

How are you making a difference in the world, right now, today?  One of the things that we know helps us to stay healthy and happy longer is feeling as if we make a difference.  And I would add making a difference that makes a difference to you, not just to someone...
Women Over 55:  Are You Moving Toward Your Dream?

Women Over 55: Are You Moving Toward Your Dream?

If you do have a dream, are you living it now?  Working on it every moment you can?  Or are you waiting until whatever — retirement, when the grandchildren are older, when you sell this big house, when you have more time? If you don’t have a dream, did you used...
Women Over 55:  Build a New Model for What’s Next in Your Life

Women Over 55: Build a New Model for What’s Next in Your Life

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.  To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.                                                                                                                        ...
Women Over 55:  Don’t Let Yourself Be Discounted

Women Over 55: Don’t Let Yourself Be Discounted

Did anyone ever treat you in a certain way, and not too much later you were, as my grandmother would have said, so angry you could have spit tacks?  Well, this happened to me not long ago, and I could have “spit tacks,” but primarily at myself for not speaking up at...