(Click play to listen to the post here!) https://graceingagefully.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/rec31.wav The wildfires in California got me thinking. I am struggling to let go of THINGS. People all around me are struggling. I’m a Realtor® so, I’m...
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...
(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OBSOLESCENCE: Planned obsolescence is a purposeful strategy to ensure the current version of a product will become out of date or useless within a known time period.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!) 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,...
“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.
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.
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.
(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...