Mental Self-Defense after 60

The idea that you can retain the power to stretch your mind after you hit 60 and still have the ability to mentally defend yourself against the negative influences that often pervade your consciousness powerfully increases your sense of self

3 Ways to Enhance Creativity: Color,Contrast, and Curiosity

Retirement is a fruitful time to develop creative projects and activities that inspire and increase the general health of your mind, body, and spirit. So, let’s get creative!

Aging With Grace in Your 60s

The idea of aging with grace has multiple definitions. It’s different for everyone: presence, elegance, refinement, and ease are a few qualities associated with aging. To achieve a state of grace is to achieve a healthy, well-balanced life full of

Anxious About Aging? Get Rid of the Fears

Are you anxious about aging? Don’t be. I recently read David Bowie’s quote and smiled: “Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” I’m being mindful of that mantra every day of my

Morning Motivation: 12 Reasons to Get Out of Bed

As published in The Huffington Post Getting out of bed in the morning required motivation. Sometimes be the most difficult activity of the day, especially when you are retired. Some might call getting out of bed an ordeal, some might

5 Ways To Reduce Stress and Find Balance in Life After 60

As published in Sixty and Me: I’ve spent a lifetime aging and had my fair share of stress while pursuing balance. And, if you are part of the boomer generation, you know what I mean. Sometimes the decades go by

6 Ways To Find Your Inner Genius

From the Huffington Post, July 28, 2015 I’m reading Walter Isaacson’s latest book, The Innovators. It took me three weeks to get past page 20. Reading the early chapters took on epic proportion as every night I plowed through two or

Are 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 about what

GPS 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 NoLa, named for the

7 Ways To Create A Successful Life

Life doesn’t have to be perfect for it to be wonderful. The possibility of creating a successful life that is balanced and blissful keeps options and opportunities alive so we can grow and change. To create a successful life also

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