Amazing Life After 50

How to Make This Christmas a Merry, Memorable One!

50 Plus — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:00:47 +0000

There are many ways to make Christmas merry and memorable! Unfortunately, sometimes it’s difficult nowadays to feel the joy through the cluttered maze that has become of Christmas. Through the years, Christmas has strayed too far from its original purpose and become a highly commercialized event.

When it comes to the holiday season, more people are concerned with buying the “perfect” gift for others and anticipating what they will receive, rather than focusing on the true ...

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Overcoming the Temptations of the Holiday Season

50 Plus — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:00:47 +0000

Overcoming the temptations of overeating, overspending, and under-appreciating during this holiday season can be challenging. When it comes to the holidays, all of these issues tempt us more than usual. However, you’ll be pleased to discover that there are ways of coping with these stressful situations during the holidays.

Here are some ways to help you avoid the temptations so you can start the New Year happy and stress-free:

Overeating

When the holidays roll in, decorative and highly ...

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Do You Know the 10 Rules of Being Human?

50 Plus — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:05:05 +0000

During my Internet travels today, I found this video post by Chris Voss on the 10 rules of being human. If you’re over 50 and thinking about reinventing yourself to get the life you really want, you gotta watch this – and take notes! I am, especially as I think about turning 60 next year.

You Can Do a Great YouTube Interview Like This

50 Plus — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:36:26 +0000

YouTube now has a great tool where you can solicit questions and then use those to create your own YouTube interview video. Listen to this fun one with none other than Elmo!

Video From Bermuda As Hurricane Igor Rolls In

50 Plus — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:54:09 +0000

Take a look at the wave action off of Horseshoe Bay and Long Bay as Hurricane Igor approaches. This video was taken by my Bermudian cousin, Qian Dickinson and posted on his website, Va Online TV. http://bit.ly/bKJsMI

One Person Makes A Difference – What Can You Do?

50 Plus — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:10:13 +0000

Life is Like a Cup of Coffee

50 Plus — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:57:29 +0000

My 60th Birthday Challenge – The Life List

50 Plus — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:56:53 +0000

What’s a life list? It’s everything you want to be, do or have now – or at any time in the future. Recently, it’s been called a “bucket” list after that great movie with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, terminally ill men who helped each other achieve everything they wanted to do before they “kicked the bucket”. I prefer to not to wait, thank you, until the end of life is staring me in the ...

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My 60th Birthday Challenge – The Game Plan

50 Plus — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:14:09 +0000

I’m just one of the many thousands, even millions who will be turning 60 in the next few years. Somehow I figured out my fifties and got through my midlife crisis on a wing and a prayer. But I didn’t have a real game plan about how to grow older, wiser – and yes, happier.

How? That’s the question a lot of us Baby Boomers are asking. Our getting older isn’t ...

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My Big Hairy Audacious 60th Birthday Challenge

50 Plus — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:30:52 +0000

In 9 months, I will turn sixty years old. For much of my forties and fifties, I’ve embraced and lived by the wisdom of a favorite author of mine, Mark Twain who said:

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

As I approach this next decade, though, I find myself thinking, more and more, that at this point in life – age does matter. In fact, it matters a ...

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