Category: Decision making
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Challenges to Gratitude
Sometimes it is difficult to be grateful, to find thankfulness within us when we are distressed or disappointed, frustrated or angry. The depths of those emotions are undeniable as is their impact on our overall state of mind and state of being. Whether it is personal stress, concern about the state of the world, anxiety…
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Frequencies
I have begun to understand that we are all “factory set” at different frequencies. It’s the level at which our nerves vibrate and hum, the level at which we radiate our energy. I’ve been thinking about this as I’ve thought about my inability to find stillness, my inability to “settle,” a characteristic I have had…
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Believing
As I write this, I am just wrapping up a year of serving as a coach in a national leadership program. I agreed to take on this role as I do all things I am asked to do—pretty routinely say “sure, be glad to” and ask about the details later! It was a big commitment…
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Out of Order
I have new ovens in my kitchen, as of Friday afternoon. No, this is not going to be a rant on my disappointment with my previous ovens, that barely made it eight years, even with two major rounds of repair. That’s a story for another day and another setting. But, I often cook and I…
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Expectations
Years ago, I had a wonderful individual working as my administrative assistant. In truth, the title does not do her justice as she was so much more than that. I was young, new in a big role, managing a large budget and a good-sized staff and responsible for all of the marketing and communication for…
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Fresh Starts
Whether you are celebrating a new year at this time or whether it is a moment when you think, “It’s time,” it is, as the cliche goes, never too late for a new beginning. Sometimes the trigger is a date on the calendar, turning an age that ends in a “0” or a “5,” or…
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Invisibility
I heard someone say, recently, that being a woman “of a certain age,” carried with it the “gift” of invisibility. They said that no one really even saw you anymore, that no one thought much about who you were or what you did, one way or the other. That comment has been clanging around in…
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Acknowledging the Obvious
It’s an often-asked question. I’d be surprised if you hadn’t been asked it, or read it in some sort of quiz. Probably more than once. I know that I have. The question is a simple one. If you could have dinner with anyone one, living or dead, who would it be? It’s a question that…
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Stretching
In December 2020, at the end of a year that felt a hundred years long, I read an email to my husband. I told him that one my favorite yoga teachers, and one of my favorite people, was offering a yoga teacher training course. She had partnered with two other teachers and they’d created an…
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Mindset
I was reading a column this morning by someone who has been writing about aging, She wrote about her life slowing down, her memory sometimes failing her, this next chapter of wrapping up life and heading for the inevitable end. As someone who has spent much of her life working with older adults, I started…
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