INFUSED WATER: EXPANDING YOUR WATER OPTIONS

Infused water is the process of adding fruits, vegetables, and herbs to your water, then letting these ingredients flavor the water. Infused water expands your water options by providing a variety of tastes, plus nutrients from the produce and herbs. These waters will make water more appealing so you want to drink more. Here are the basics: filtered water is always better, both for quality and flavor. Start with room temperature or cold water. Organic… Continue reading

Six Facts and Tips About Water For Health

In the middle of the summer, with temperatures soaring in so many places, to the point of serious danger to health and well-being, we hear over and over: “Stay hydrated.”  The message is actually important all year. Avoiding dehydration and heat stroke during the hottest time of year is crucial; water is beneficial all year around for a variety of reasons.  It is the original health drink! Here are Six Facts and Tips: 1) The… Continue reading

6 Things You Bring to Your 3rd Act

  Transforming your years after 50, sometimes called our 3rd Act,  is a journey of awareness and action. As you look forward to, enter or are in the midst of these years, it is helpful to look at what you bring to this stage of life. Here are 6 major categories to examine. You will identify things that either can sabotage your dreams or enhance them.  Click above on the subtitle of this post, “What… Continue reading

Transforming Your Years After 50: Keep Learning!

One of the important keys to transforming your years after 50 to a time of joy and fulfillment is to continue learning new things. Since I am building my online business, I am learning new tech things all of the time. Infographics are a great tool to summarize or provide an overview of information, and especially appeal to people who are more visually oriented. Today I put together my first infographic – the 10 Questions… Continue reading

Transforming Your Years After 50: The Cost of Inertia

Perhaps the idea of “transforming your years after 50” – or any other major change in life –  sounds like a lot of work. Perhaps it will cost money you are trying to conserve.  Perhaps you are thinking, I can look at this closely later; reading it is interesting but doing the exercises and thinking deeply about this can wait. My advice, my plea, is that you reconsider those thoughts.  Beware of inertia setting in.… Continue reading

Transforming Your Years After 50: Introducing Mind Mapping, a Multi-Purpose Tool

Mind Mapping is a great multi-purpose tool that can help with various aspects of transforming your years after 50. I first became familiar with it when Tony Buzan, the creator of modern mind mapping, published Use Both Sides of Your Brain in 1976. I have used it sporadically ever since then. Perhaps you are not familiar with mind mapping. Tony Buzan describes it as a two-dimensional technique that uses imagery, drawings and color to gather… Continue reading

Transforming Your Years After 50: Activating Your Vision Board

Now that you have created at least one vision board as you are transforming your years after 50, what’s next? There are alternate ways to “activate” the power of vision boards. Most proponents advocate placing them where you can see them daily, preferably multiple times daily. This repeated exposure develops strong neural pathways in your brain to what you have included. Some practitioners talk of specific placement, i.e., being at your eye level in fairly… Continue reading

Creating Vision Boards

Vision boards can be a powerful tool whenever we want to regroup, refocus and gain a vision to guide us. This can be at the beginning of a year, or any other time that will help us focus. Tools and Materials Creating a vision board can be as simple as cutting photos out of a magazine and tacking them up on your office bulletin board, or it can be as complex as a hand-made frame… Continue reading

Transforming Your Years After 50: Vision Boards Work in Many Areas of Life

Vision boards can affect various aspects of your life as you are transforming your 3rd Act. When you create your vision board, regardless of which of life’s aspects you’re focusing on, be sure to look for images and words that make you feel the way you imagine you’ll feel when you achieve your goal. It’s not about what you want to have. It’s about how you want to feel. Any area of your life can… Continue reading