Women Over 55, It’s Time to Toot Your Own Horn. . .Loudly!

Women Over 55, It’s Time to Toot Your Own Horn. . .Loudly!

Women Over 55, It’s Time to Toot Your Own Horn. . .Loudly! That is surely not how I was taught, though! How many times growing up were you told “don’t brag,”? Or whatever the words used by the adults in the home where you grew up.  I know I was told that over and...
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.                                                                                                                        ...