I stood outside in the cold January 2001 air, watching flames devour my home and office. As the wooden beams and all our possessions crackled under the heat, I took a deep breath. “It’s just stuff…only stuff. Let it go.” Fires, natural disasters, layoffs, failed businesses, loss of loved ones. We all experience devastation in […]
Time With Sands – Staying With It or Starting Retirement
I’m 72 and have had my own business in the healthcare field for 30 years. I still enjoy my work and have an exit plan, but keep getting sidelined by medical issues (not life threatening but at times painful and inconvenient). I have at least two medical appointments a week, sometimes more, and here I […]
BEING SINGLE DOESN’T MEAN BEING ALONE
As we age, we may also face the death of our partners. Women tend to outlive men, and being over 50 and single (newly single especially) comes with issues that simply did not exist for most people when they were single in the past. Because so many more of us are living to ripe old […]
Time With Sands – Boomers are Redefining Aging
How are Boomers redefining aging? – Harold G. Just like everything else Boomers have confronted, Boomers are redefining aging. First, Boomers have to own that they are in fact aging – that is step one. And next, to redefine what aging means for them in the context of extended longevity. So the first step is […]
BREAKING FREE IN LOVE, LIFE, AND WORK
I’m sure you’ve read about the increased divorce rate among people post-50. One study by Bowling Green State University cited it at more than double what it was twenty years ago. Last week, people across generations were shocked to learn that the 27 year-long marriage of Bill and Melinda Gates had come to an end. […]
Time With Sands – Better Sectors for Aging
Do you think certain sectors offer better opportunities for empowerment as we age? – Charliese Q. I do not know that there is a sector that offers better opportunities. The key determining factor is how aware a specific enterprise is to the real value of age as in experience and developmental maturity. Offering better opportunities will […]
OWN YOUR WORTH
The most pervasive and challenging obstacle for many, most especially for women, is low self-esteem. For some of us, aging provides a new perspective on what really matters, which helps us to ease up on ourselves over what doesn’t matter. We may grieve the losses of youth (and perhaps health), the empty nest, and for […]
Time With Sands – Levels of Empowerment
How do you think the level of empowerment differs when working in corporate versus as an entrepreneur? – Martin Y. The determining factor, actually, is the culture. If you work somewhere that demonstrates that it is truly committed to fully supporting self- and professional-development, count your blessings and your good judgment! Simple truth is, it […]
NO ONE WINS THE WAITING GAME
Many of us are waiting out the aftereffects of the global Covid-19 pandemic. We’re playing it safe, not taking any risks, putting off our next big steps – the transformations we long to make in our lives and work – until the winds of global economic change die down. We’ve locked the doors, boarded up […]
Time With Sands – How to Empower Your Life
What can we do all through our life to contribute to having a more empowered life ourselves, and to empower the older people around us? – Elliot J. The whole life course starts when we land on the planet until we depart from the planet; so it is for everybody’s life course. What is most […]
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