(Click play to listen to the poem here!) I want to change the world. I think I can and I think you can too…. Remember the Michael Jackson song “The Man in the Mirror”? I love MJ despite all the horrible things that were rumored and levied against...
YOUR NEXT MOVE will connect you to the power to THRIVE in the second half! (Click play to listen to the poem here!) https://graceingagefully.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/JenniferSproul-YourNextMove.mp3 As a Realtor®, I am often asked to...
(Click play to listen to the poem here!) https://graceingagefully.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-POEM-IF-and-Amor-Fate-MY-WORD-OF-THE-YEAR-ACCEPT.mp3 “IF” by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs...
I was 65 at the beginning of the pandemic. It turns out that was an inflection point in my life, but not the one I expected. In the beginning of 2020, February to be exact, I bought tickets to Oprah’s Vision Tour 2020 in NYC for my sister, my niece and me.
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) This old expression runs through my head a lot. I’m learning this is the way inspiration works for me. I “receive” words, phrases, familiar expressions, or as in the name Graceing...
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) I hear the word resurrection and my mind goes immediately to my Christian upbringing and Jesus Christ. “He was crucified, dead and buried. The 3rd day he rose from the DEAD. He...
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) This image has come to me over and over. Jigsaw puzzles are a challenge I love to conquer. Completing one, the process, and finishing is inspiring, fun, and very satisfying. Finding a...
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) As I have prepared to speak on the TED X stage in a week, I have experienced a lifetime of ups and downs compressed into days. I have had idea after idea—written reams of pages, rehearsed, timed,...
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) Frontier (definition): The part of a country that borders on UNEXPLORED territory. Captain Kirk or at least the narrator, maybe Gene Roddenberry himself, began every episode of Star Trek with the...
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE: Planned obsolescence is a purposeful strategy to ensure the current version of a product will become out of date or useless within a known time period. If you’ve been...
Summer Solstice is the day of the year when the light is longest in the day. The longest DAY. It is also a midpoint in the year and, in turn, a midpoint for the Graceing Agefully™ platform.
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) https://graceingagefully.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/I-DIED-A-LITTLE-THIS-MONTH.mp3I had a great Sunday, Mother’s Day. My cats even had a card waiting for me when I came home from an open house. The...
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) Last month I wrote about “My Year of Living Dangerously”. Around mid-March I was hit by inspiration, perhaps Divine inspiration, to start a new chapter in this second half of life. I decided March 17,...
I always think “cinematically”. In other words, I love movies, always have. I came by it honestly. Grace, my mother, whose name is the root of this platform name Graceing Agefully™, was a movie buff.
“Help, Thanks, Wow!”
Anne Lamott
Those defiant words of a teen struggling to be independent came to us through the commercial airwaves in the 60’s. My family members often remember these things and laugh. That girl and her mother have provided us with lots of giggles over the years. However, in our second half of life as Baby Boomers, there is a more troubling or serious side effect of that expression.
My first “real” job in my life was retail. I worked for Lord & Taylor in the late 70’s in New York. In fact, that is how I landed in Washington, DC in 1979, transferred to ‘the branches’ from the flagship NY store. That was a necessary step for all “executive trainees”. The idea was, you would serve time in the suburbs and return to NY as an assistant buyer who now understood the critical remote tentacles of the business.
I plan a word of the year every year. I choose a word or a theme that accurately defines my intention and hope for the coming year. I choose it by “feel”. It comes to me through my journaling, meditation, and spiritual contemplation. This year my word is “integrate” and my goal is to live a ‘well-integrated’ life every day.
This week was Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights and the beginning of a new year. I learned about this yesterday. We had a ceremony with a candle and some money. We were taught at the end to give the money away following the ceremony. The message was money and abundance will multiply and letting go is a catalyst for multiplication. Money is currency, it’s energy, it is meant to be circulated, it is not to be held, it is to be spent. Like the current in a river, it flows, energy circulates, it comes back, it continues to generate more energy and it is important to unblock it and keep it moving. It comes back to fuel our lives.
I have never played a game of Whack-A-Mole. I’m not sure I have even seen one on TV or the movies, but somehow Bill Murray and “Caddyshack” come to mind when I think of the game. I don’t know why, without experience, the game of Whack-A-Mole...
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Do you remember this slogan from a commercial in the 1970’s? As with many slogans, it seemed hackneyed and shallow. Today, I’ve resurrected it and I consider it profound.
Jennifer came out of the gates running from a successful career in telecommunications to “Rookie of the Year” in her first full year in real estate in 2005. Since then, she has cultivated an impressive database of clients that have generated referrals that account for 100% of her annual sales today. She has consistently ranked as a top producer and holds licenses in Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia.
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) I have noticed a growing epidemic of approval addiction here in the US, maybe around the world. I believe social media has perpetrated and exacerbated it. NOW it IS an epidemic. Like substance...