As milestones go, I guess this is a big one – turning 60 that is. As this birthday approaches, I find myself in state of amazement. How is it possible that I am going to be 60 years old? Let me clarify up front. I don’t have a problem with my age. I’ve never been…
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What wild geese can teach you about success
You can hear them long before you can see them. Honk honk honk. You never exactly know when it will happen. Some years it is early in the fall. Other years the snow has already fallen. But guaranteed one day or another flocks of Canada Geese make their way overhead. I always stop when I…
The Essential Habit of Well-being
There’s a handy piece of wisdom that says if you don’t make time for your health now, you will need to make time for illness later. That’s because eventually our choices related to health and wellness eventually catch up with us. When we think about well-being, there are lots of positive habits that come to…
How to take unplugging to the next level
Take 8 adults and no cell service for 3 days and guess what happens? Nothing and everything. This year’s summer family fun weekend involved camping in the mountains. Trees and lakes and beautiful Rockies….and not one bar of service. On one hand that weekend, nothing happened. No scrolling No surfing No liking No sharing No…
How do you know when enough is enough?
Enough is enough. When I was a child that’s what my mother used to say when she wanted me to stop doing something…as in “knock it off – enough is enough.” But used in a different context that phrase can have another meaning. I recently read a book about the Swedish art of living a…
How to give your mind a clean sweep
This is the time of year when we do a little spring cleaning to sweep away the dirt that collects over the winter months. With the sun higher in the sky, it’s easier to see the grime on the windows that we didn’t notice with overcast skies. Until we stop for a minute and take…
Mind Over Clutter: how to think differently about piles of stuff
When I was growing up, we used to keep and reuse tin foil. You see, my parents lived during the Great Depression when certain things like tinfoil were scarce, so they learned to be thrifty and reuse items. Then along came the Second World War when things continued to be in short supply. So they also…