After 59+ years, you find yourself at a crossroads. It’s a time brimming with potential, usually called “retirement.” I invite you to see this not as a retirement but as your “encore years.” The term is rich with promise and vitality and offers a perspective shift that can redefine how you approach this extraordinary chapter…
This post is a little detour from my usual, but it’s fun and thought provoking, so I wanted to share … As women in our encore years, we’ve done a lot and seen a lot. Along the way, we’ve learned a lot. The following list, written by Regina Brett, a 67-year-old bestselling author and newspaper…
Stepping into your encore years, you’re at a remarkable life stage. You have experiences, wisdom, and maybe a few unanswered questions about what’s next and what brings true fulfillment. Understanding the difference between joy and happiness can be crucial to your journey and help answer those questions. Let’s explore these concepts and see how they…
There’s almost nobody alive who doesn’t regret something they’ve done. That’s simply a fact of life. Even if the regret stems from something that happened years ago, we tend to hold onto those feelings and wish we could change the past. You can’t travel back in time to change mistakes, but you can learn from…
Let me introduce you to Carl Sandburg’s Kansas Sodbuster: He leaned at the gatepost and studied the horizon and figured what corn might do next year and tried to calculate why God ever made the grasshopper and why two days of hot winds smother the life out of a stand of wheat and why there…
When most people think about happiness, they assume it’s something that happens to them. They don’t believe they can choose happiness. But it’s a choice you make every single day and moment. You control your thoughts and emotions and choose to be happy. Here’s how: Decide Where to Focus Your Energy: What you focus…
Since when did life get so complicated? What happened to the days of running wild and not worrying about anything? Even as we’ve gotten older, it’s still fun to remember the good old days and the simplicity of life (the one-phone household, no cell phones or answering machines, cars with roll-up windows). You can still…
Life is a serious business and can wear you down. We all have so many demands placed on us that it can be difficult to have fun. Getting a bit of a boost now and again is a must. Sometimes, you need to be reminded to step back and enjoy the smaller moments in life.…
I have been intrigued by the Butterfly Effect concept since I first heard it 40+ years ago. Here’s the gist of it from a theoretical perspective: The Butterfly Effect is a concept rooted in chaos theory and was first coined by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960s. It suggests that a butterfly flapping its wings…
It’s that time of year when people make big promises to themselves about what they’re going to change in the new year. I think it’s time to break that habit (unless you’re one of the few for whom that works.) It’s time for a new way of doing things that will get you what you…