Plan on Getting Old. Despite Your Best Efforts, You Just Might Get There.
Planning for getting older isn’t gloomy. It’s how we stay in charge. Here are five simple things to do now, with free help from trusted sources.
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Acceptance Isn’t Giving Up: How to Tell the Difference
For a long time, this site had a little line under its name. Working to balance change with acceptance. I still like that line. Because that’s the work, isn’t it? Some things we can change. Some things we can’t. And a lot of life is figuring out which is which. Here’s the trouble. From the…
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Faith Isn’t Just Religious — It’s a Mindset Tool for Resilience
The word “faith” tends to trigger an immediate assumption: religion. But strip away the theological baggage for a moment, and faith is really just a psychological mechanism — a form of trust and commitment that humans rely on constantly, whether or not it has anything to do with belief in a higher power. You use…
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Optimism Isn’t Wishful Thinking: How Expecting Good Changes What You Do
Optimism is not a mood. It is an expectation that changes what you do. What the research actually shows, and five practices that build real optimism.
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Hope as a Discipline: What Helen Keller Teaches Us About Resilience
Helen Keller’s life is a testament to the power of hope. Before she was two years old, an illness robbed her of both her sight and hearing. Born in 1880 — an era when being a woman was treated as a limitation and disability was often seen as diminishing — she went on to become…
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Rediscovering Our Spirituality
As we experience life with our losses and life changes that take place with advancing years, some of us begin to gravitate towards or for some of is back to religion, although the traditional church may not always be as accommodating as we hoped. If you’re like me born in the church, graduated from catholic…
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If We Can Figure Out What Really Matters, Maybe We Can Find our Passion
A majority of us confess to experiencing a disconnection between having a job and doing what we are really passionate about. Many of us are experiencing irregular sleeping habits, stress, and left wondering what really matters in our lives. Since our work is not just an eight-hour interruption in our day and we spend most…
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Is There Everyday Spirituality?
Everyday spirituality can be found in all of us. From our first days on this earth we have been influenced by the ideas of society telling you what kind of person we should be. From that first cartoon show to the latest version of Downton Abbey, the media shows us how perfect our lives should…
