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Transforming Your Retirement: What if Your Positive Expectations Created a Positive Retirement?

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The images, beliefs and expectations you have of this “3rd Act” of life will greatly influence the outcomes. What you expect the coming years to be is a powerful factor in determining how it will go. Expectations are both conscious and subconscious. Our conscious expectations can be sabotaged by what is firmly planted in our subconscious as we are transforming our retirement. By identifying attitudes and beliefs that may contradict and undermine our positive expectations,… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Years After 50: What if Gratitude Were the Overriding Tone of Your Life?

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Daily Gratitude Practice If you are not already doing this, start a daily practice of writing a Gratitude List and really monitor how it changes your attitude. It’s very simple and most effective it you use a journal (a simple notebook is fine, or a folder in your computer) rather than scattered pieces of paper. That’s because looking back over a month, or a quarter, or a year can take you to a whole new… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Years After 50: 10 Questions to Shift Your Thoughts

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“We live in the world our questions create.”      —David Cooperrider Humans are estimated to have about 60,000 thoughts per day and 95% of those thoughts are the same from the previous day – which leaves us with only 5% new and creative thoughts. In addition, the majority of those thoughts are negative. (See Simple Capacity.com) Take a few moments to think about the quote by David Cooperrider. What kinds of questions are most… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Years After 50: Recapture Dreams that Still Excite You

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Dreaming new dreams as you are transforming your years after 50 is an invigorating process. (See Dreaming New Dreams) There are other dreams from other parts of our lives that may be worth rediscovering. Perhaps this is the time to make them come true. They may be ideas or possibilities that are big or small. They may be skills, hobbies or experiences or just things about which you want to learn. What were your talents… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Retirement: Dreaming New Dreams

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What if….you could be, do, and have anything you wanted to during the next 20, 30 even 40 years of your life? Having those dreams is an important part of transforming our retirement. Sometimes it is difficult to do that kind of dreaming from the viewpoint of today. How about reversing direction to look  back at the coming years rather than forward? Imagine being at the end of your earthly life. Look back from that perspective… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Life After 50: Role Models Along the Way

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We all have role models that influence us in each time period of our lives. We can learn from those people again as we are transforming our loves after age 50. Before we look at the ones that are influencing us now and for the future, let’s start back in our childhood. The earliest recollection of stating that I wanted to be like a particular adult was saying that I wanted to be fat like… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Retirement: Forgiveness and Taking Responsibility

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Without exception, people will disappoint us and hurt us. It’s impossible to avoid it. Holding onto anger and grudges because of that, however, is something we have control over. In the process of transforming your retirement into a joyous journey, you will find more freedom if you deal with this baggage. Maybe your anger goes back to childhood; maybe to yesterday. Regardless of the length of time, it is a negative pull from the past… Continue reading

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Sticky: Welcome!

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I love gathering and curating ideas and resources that enhance and enrich life. With the ever-expanding amount of information we have access to, finding what may be applicable to us can be overwhelming.  It can be very helpful to have someone do the research, gather information and share what they found on a topic.  Most of the topics being explored here can be of interest and useful to people of all ages. Click on “Start… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Retirement: Mining the Gold In Your Life

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Often in the rush of life we lose track of our accomplishments and some of our strengths. As we close out our career or employment life, it can be very helpful to reflect upon and celebrate some of the unique milestones, achievements, and strengths that have brought us to where we are today. This reflection can be a way to take inventory of what we carry into the new future we are designing for ourselves… Continue reading

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Transforming Your Retirement: Dropping the Baggage You Drag Around

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If you are approaching, beginning or in the midst of retirement, there is a great likelihood that you have some baggage that you could let go of. Few of us get to age 55 or more without some things that are weighing us down. Transforming your retirement into a joyful, productive time of life is much easier without the baggage. Taking some time now to think about that and make some decisions can greatly impact the… Continue reading