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Finding Happiness

What are the keys to finding happiness after 60? How can we learn to be more positive in the best years of our lives? For starters, we must learn to manage our expectations. We must also put a high priority on our health and social relationships. But, this is just the beginning.

2 years ago

How Painting Can Calm Your Mood and Create a More Positive Attitude to Life After 60

Everything in our life changes as we age and start on the journey of our last chapter in life. We have to pay more attention to what we eat, our exercise, our daily life and even our thoughts. Days often do not take care of themselves with a set routine…

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2 years ago

Don’t Wait for the Perfect Moment – Make Your Moments Perfect

The older I get, the more I believe the adage “happiness is an inside job.” Life doesn’t seem to generously dish up the thrills and emotional highs it once did when I was part of a greater social scene and professional community. And in talking with my woman friends…

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2 years ago

The Joyful Living Toolkit: 10 Transformative Practices

Are you rushing through life, missing out on its beauty? Do you feel like it’s slipping by too quickly to savor its richness? Maybe you’re caught up in a whirlwind of problems and obligations or the monotony of mundane routines…

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2 years ago

How Breaking Up with My Therapist Allowed Me to Continue My Journey

I broke up with my therapist recently. That sounds a bit dramatic. What I mean is that I ended a formal relationship with a talk therapist I’d been seeing fairly regularly over the past few years. And, like all break-ups – I felt incredibly sad afterwards…

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2 years ago

Les Petits Bonheurs: How Often Do You Indulge in Moments of Happiness After 60?

Today I enjoyed one of those rare mid-August days when the sting of summer heat and humidity have almost disappeared, and there is a hint of autumn in the air. Despite the signs of summer drawing to a close…

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2 years ago

Risks Worth Taking Require Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone While Honoring Your Authentic Self

If you want to accomplish your life goals, experience success in your endeavors, and enjoy a life worth living, you must be willing to step outside your comfort zone. Browse the subject online, and you will find plenty of resources on the value…

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2 years ago

6 Ways to Celebrate the Simple Things in Life

I want to tell you about my day today. No, it wasn’t a bad day, the sort of day that we often want to talk about, when everything goes wrong. It was a good day, of the sort we much too often take for granted. Here are a few tips for celebrating the simple things in life…

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2 years ago

15 Ways to Romance Yourself After 60

Has your desire for romance changed at all now that you are in your 60s? How often have you considered romancing yourself? Engaging in self-romance can be beautifully rewarding as it offers lots of fulfilling experiences. Providing you with a renewed sense of purpose, self-worth, and happiness…

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2 years ago

5 Lifestyle Ideas for Boomers to Manage Expectations

It’s a rarity that we have time to sit down and reflect on our lives. Self-reflection is considered a luxury instead of a necessity. You rush from pillar to post and the minutes tick by until the end of the day…

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2 years ago

“What If I Fall?” Oh, But What If You Fly?

By the time we have reached our 60s, all of us have had a share of fails and successes; hopefully, far more of the latter. It is the very nature of living that life is full of ups and downs. As we each write our own unique life story, it is these that help us grow…

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