5 Ways to Break The Barrier of Fear
As published by The Huffington Post June 14, 2015 “The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.” — Eckhart Tolle When I came across...
View ArticleSolving the Self-Sabotaging Syndrome
As Published in the Huffington Post, July 6, 2015 Getting in the way of ourselves – or, as some call this state – being our own worst enemy – has been around since the dawn of man. Modern psychology...
View ArticleGPS of the Mind: 5 Ways to Keep Directional
Published in the Huffington Post, July 14, 2015 Plutarch said, The whole life of a man is but a point in time; let us enjoy it. Plutarch’s quote reminds me of a 4-year-old black Labrador dog called...
View ArticleLove Yourself First – Getting the Most from Life After 60
Published in Sixty and Me, July 2015 Lucille Ball said it: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself first to have a positive and joyful attitude in...
View Article5 Powerful Ways to Free Your Mind and Discover Personal Success
Published in the Huffington Post, 4/15/2015 My eldest son just recently left his job because he was terribly unhappy and unfulfilled. Since he has a family to support — three of my grandchildren and a...
View ArticleA Quick Technique To Stay Positive When You’re Feeling Down
Published in Women of Power Magazine We all like to think of ourselves as the woman warrior, the indomitable female the can-do girl who lives every moment with intensity and attention. But, alas, we...
View ArticleIf If Not Now, When? What Marion Ross Taught Me About Getting the Most Out of...
Published in Sixty & Me Magazine, Boomerly.com You’ve all heard the phrase so many times that it has become a universal mantra: If not now, when? I said that same mantra to myself in March, 1984. I...
View ArticleAre We Having Fun Yet?
Joan Frances Moran is a regular columnist for Women of Power Magazine Are we having Fun yet? How many times have you been invited to lunch, or dinner, to a club or to the movies with high expectations...
View Article5 Reasons Why Emotionally Intelligent People Are Happier
As posted in Linkedin 9.24.2015 Emotionally Intelligent People Are Happier On my way to New Orleans last December, I sat next to a man who was a project manager in northern California. Since I was...
View ArticleCan You Really Trust Your Tattoo Artist?
As published in the Huffington Post 9. 21.2015 I got my first tattoo while living in Venice, California, in 1996. I was 53 years old, long before Baby Boomers had an inkling that tattoos were not just...
View ArticleThe Suffragette Movement – Lead On
I gave myself a birthday present today I treated my boyfriend and me to the movie Suffragette. I thought it might be a derivative retelling of the suffragette movement in the UK in the second decade of...
View ArticlePut On Your Red Shoes and Dance
Let’s dance, Put on your red shoes and dance the blues Let’s dance, To the song they’re playin’ on the radio Let’s sway, While color lights up your face Let’s sway, Sway through the crowd to an empty...
View ArticleIt’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
If Christmas is supposed to be the happy time of the year, why are we so stressed, anxious and miserable? Why does so much unpleasant stuff come up in bucket loads during the Christmas holidays? Ever...
View ArticleColombia – The Jewel of South America, Part 1
Colombia is truly the jewel of South AMercia. I just returned from a tour of Colombia and I was astounded at my emotional connection. I considered that my travel dream came true when I experienced the...
View ArticleColombia, The Jewel of South America, Part 2
In the months before I went to Colombia on tour, I was reading a book called Salt. Did you know that salt was the most precious commodity since almost the existence of mankind? Salt linked every city,...
View ArticleMy Latest Retirement Tour: Advice That Could Change Your Life
Published in Sixty and Me http://www.boomerly.com/retirement-tour-this-retirement-advice-could-change-your-life/...
View ArticleSleep Deprived But Staying Alive
You know how something sounds like a good idea and, well, then isn’t? That happened to me last week when I joined a PhD research project on sleep and source memory at the University of Texas. My...
View ArticleLongevity As A Resource: You Get Better As You Age
Published in Sixty and Me and Boomerly.com http://sixtyandme.com/longevity-is-a-resource http://www.boomerly.com/longevity-is-a-resource You might have entertained the idea that longevity is a...
View ArticleEmpowering Women With Yoga For the New Year
I am now one year into the decade of my 70s, and I am still the only one who can make a difference in myself and in my life. I am fully prepared to look inwardly for guidance. It has been my preference...
View ArticleThe Bucket List: 5 Tools For Getting More From Life After 60
Published in Sixty and Me http://sixtyandme.com/the-bucket-list-5-tools-for-getting-more-from-life-after-60/ I was recently a participant at the Healthy Aging Conference – Taking Control of Your Life,...
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