Ageless Beat Blog | Karen Sands

The Ageless Beat Blog is for audacious, conscious entrepreneurs, world shakers and change makers who want to Rock Your Age! Posts are focused on the latest news, trends, and opportunities for 40+ women and men, as well as those who serve the 40+ market. I share information, tools, resources, strategies, and visionary insights about the future, as well as personal and professional mastery, including exciting trends, principles, and strategies that will help you transform your life in ways that transform the world and create Ageless Futures Across Generations.

GIVING THANKS

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey Happy Thanksgiving! This holiday marks a time of remembrance and celebration for all we have and hold dear. It’s a time to gather with family and friends—even […]

CAREER SETBACKS AND AGEISM IN THE ERA OF COVID

I came across a recent article by Martha Boudreau of AARP, who wrote, “78% of older workers … reported seeing or dealing with age discrimination at work last year [2020], up from 61% in 2018.” In a time when many of us are feeling more burnt out and overstretched in our careers than ever, I […]

Time With Sands – Speaking Up at Work

Things have been tense in my workplace, so I strive to maintain a positive work environment through an excess of kindness. I try to keep the peace and not rock the boat, but lately it’s been impossible to speak up even when I feel I need to. I’m sure I’m not alone as an older […]

LIFE’S ERUPTIONS

“Don’t fight forces. Use them.” ~ Buckminster Fuller “Greatness is where you least expect it.” ~ Tom Peters When a volcano erupts, everything around it shakes with its explosive vibrations, and then the lava that pours forth over the land, rivers, and seas begins in time to harden, creating new shores and banks, and becoming […]

Time With Sands – The Ageless Way

The term “ageless” comes up a lot in your work and one of your books is entitled The Ageless Way. What exactly do you mean by “ageless”? – Darlene M. I’m glad I’m the age I am now, but it doesn’t define me. It doesn’t define you. We are ageless because aging is a lifelong […]

TAKE BACK TOMORROW

“The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast The slow one will later be fast And the present now will soon be the past The order is rapidly fading The first one now will later be last For the times, they are a changin’” ~ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A Changin’, […]

Time With Sands – Recovering the Self

I used to feel alive, empowered, and that my life was full of abundance. How do I get back to that version of myself? – Dean R. Stop trying so hard. Realize that the whole range of emotions is what makes us human, and when we start cutting off emotions that don’t feel good, we […]

A NEW WORLD OF OUR MAKING

Live on—live on as if you had centuries! ~ Carl Jung Fears compete with disasters for headlines around the world. In these jaw-dropping times of overwhelming challenges and turbulent change, it is easy to fall into resignation and hopelessness or turn away into abject denial, seeking to turn back the hands of time to what […]

Time With Sands – Adjusting to the “New Normal”

What advice would you give to people as we adjust to and seek new ways to navigate beyond the “new normal” and how to prepare for what is to come? – Sonya P. I call this time the “Age of Greatness” when each of us is called to step forward to own or regain our […]

DISILLUSIONMENT AND THE NEW NORMAL

The individual, transformed, will perceive new meaning to his life, to events, to numbers, to interactions between people. ~ Dr. W. Edwards Deming The global realities we’ve faced in the past few years have led us to a feeling of disillusionment. But most of us face the breakdown of previous beliefs many times throughout our […]