tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67710042233052915352024-02-08T08:49:15.327-08:00Last Chance LifeAlicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-74322127354990218152016-11-15T07:50:00.000-08:002016-11-15T08:36:52.987-08:00Ritualhttp://www.catholiccompany.com/white-pink-oplatki-christmas-wafers-i20247/?sku=9990270&utm_source=google&utm_medium=products&aid=3317&product_id=9990270&adpos=1o2&creative=95892082718&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=CjwKEAiAgavBBRCA7ZbggrLSkUcSJACWDexAHJgcddFCBA761BApuYjjLAtC8mQJzGyM_mxZEKlkZRoCq07w_wcB<br />
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If I could tell young people one thing, it would be-- make ritual in your life.<br />
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Why ritual-- what is it.<br />
Scheduled. More or less obligatory.<br />
Community-oriented<br />
Requires participation.<br />
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Could be self-imposed-- raising flag in Cape Giradoux.<br />
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Why does it fall away?<br />
Move away.<br />
more work-- if you live 40 minutes across town.<br />
Even annual rituals get hard.<br />
Scattering-- meet at grandma's house for Xmas. What happens when Grandma dies?<br />
Competing --- What happens when Grandma moves to Florida?<br />
What happens when you BECOME Grandma, and you still have to visit your parents-- what ritual for your kids?<br />
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Family reunion-- huge amount of work.<br />
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Someone has to do the work. Easier if it's a community thing and expectation.<br />
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Competing entertainments. Passive entertainment-- too easy, always right there.<br />
Limited vacation time. Do I go home for Xmas? Do I go to in-laws? Do I go skiing with friends?<br />
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Can make ritual yourself-- what you do in the morning when you get up.<br />
Will take work. Like all good habits, easily broken. One Sunday you decide not to get up for church, that could be all it takes.<br />
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Even TV and music are no longer a ritual. No one gathers to watch Buffy on Tuesday nights -- you can watch it any time. No one gets together at a friend's house to watch a video or listen to a new CD he just bought-- we can stream any video or listen to any song on our phones or tablets or TVs.<br />
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There's no incentive to leave home. <a href="https://youtu.be/h1BQPV-iCkU" target="_blank">Wall-E comfortable dystopia. </a><br />
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Buy season tickets--- remember about the Indians and the end of the season, and all the season-ticket holders getting hugs from the vendors...<br />
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<br />Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-53089527237718474202016-10-21T01:22:00.000-07:002016-10-21T01:22:24.336-07:00facebook meaning question<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8kion" data-offset-key="4hsb9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-2328015362428451062016-10-21T01:16:00.000-07:002016-10-21T01:16:21.089-07:00Forget success-- make meaningWhen we're younger, we might plan for success-- we want to be rich and famous, or do great things.<br />
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But at some point, most of us don't. And we see people who have achieved what is popularly called "success", and we think maybe it seems shallow and trite-- a real estate developer with a young trophy wife and a billion dollars, ....<br />
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Success in that big worldly form-- winning elections, making a fortune, getting awards-- might not be achievable, if you haven't spent decades being lucky and building a particular foundation. Most of us didn't live like that-- we just lived.<br />
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Make meaning instead. Meaning-- define--<br />
more about meaning<br />
Why it will work?Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-26070042416454289142016-10-21T01:08:00.001-07:002016-10-21T01:08:47.471-07:00The meaning is... meaningThe hardest realization humans face is-- we know we're going to die.<br />
And in some ways, that seems to destroy all our meaning. What does it matter if I do this or that, achieve this or that, if I'm just going to die anyway?<br />
This is easy enough to ignore-- it might even be a spur to achievement-- when you have decades yet to go. After all, you'll have plenty of time to enjoy your achievement and reap the rewards.<br />
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But mortality isn't a distant existential anxiety at this point. It's a reality. We've had parents die, even siblings. We've tried to help friends through dread diseases, seen them fight and struggle, only to lose in the end. We've seen older people linger, their bodies going on long after their minds have deteriorated.<br />
We know what the end might look like.<br />
And we know that what we do now, we might not have decades to enjoy.<br />
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Do it now....<br />
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What? What would give meaning when it seems sort of meaningless?<br />
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Helping others<br />
Leaving a legacy<br />
Doing what you want to do<br />
Discovering new aspects of the world and you<br />
Improving<br />
Getting over some personal flaw that has always bothered you<br />
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<br />Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-28454519327858711272016-10-21T01:03:00.000-07:002016-10-21T01:03:33.590-07:00Boomer alert-- routine and affiliationSomething many Boomers didn't like much were routines and joining.<br />
"Keep your options open" -- moving around, moving on. Even if you stayed in the same town, you probably aren't in the same groups. You probably don't do the same thing every Tuesday.<br />
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Far easier to break a good habit than a bad one! Sleep in one morning rather than going to swim laps at the pool, and you might as well have quit, right? The discipline is broken.<br />
Routine is hard....<br />
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Traditions/routines/meaning.<br />
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Point of this decade is... making meaning.<br />
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Older generation affiliated-- Masons, Moose Lodge. Jeff talking about the BR "boys night out" group-- meet every week for decades. (Older)<br />
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We are more likely to join for a while, then move on when it's no longer useful. (RWA)<br />
More into new experiences, new sensations.<br />
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But there's usefulness and meaning in familiarity, in making the time to do the same thing.Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-56718807435198528902016-10-07T15:10:00.001-07:002016-10-07T15:10:37.108-07:00Quotes about age and stuff<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">Bruce Springsteen: “A good song gathers the years in. It’s why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it’s been written. A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.”</span>Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-25600185295817506882016-10-07T09:04:00.001-07:002016-10-07T09:04:59.457-07:00grandma's wisdom<div class="_1dwg _1w_m" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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I found myself washing a baggie (in my defense, it was a ZIPLOC!), and thought, I have become my grandmother (who would wash bread bags and use them). Of course, it's quite environmental, but also a bit.... compulsive.<br />Anyone else do something like their grandma?</div>
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Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-53841961253182024202016-09-12T13:16:00.004-07:002016-09-12T14:32:48.581-07:00Feel good by doing good-- even in a minor key.<div>
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Think about ways to create small amounts of joy-- to yourself and others. In fact, the best way to create joy is to give it away!</div>
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For example, I witnessed this phenomenon today when I delivered Meals on Wheels in my neighborhood in Indianapolis. This activity allows me
to meet a lot of elderly people, most of whom are homebound. Most of my
grandparents and elderly relatives died in their sixties, so I never really
have known old people close up. Delivering the meals gives me a chance to interact with some
kind of routine basis. Sometimes it's depressing. Some clients are in pain or fatigued, and they give the impression that there's no joy in their lives, far from it. As I said, I'm not experienced with older people, and I find myself thinking, "I can't blame them. There's a point when there's no joy left to find."</div>
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But then I'll deliver a meal to someone like Mr. Wilbert, and he reminds me that there's always some joy left, even if you have to make it yourself. </div>
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Mr. Wilbert is over 80 and in a wheelchair, and
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But he doesn't let that keep him from creating joy. I noticed today as I came up his walk that he was out on the porch. He was bending down in his wheelchair, but looked up guiltily when I approached. He shrugged and sat back, and I could see what he'd been doing. He was putting out little cups of food and milk for the feral cats who live in the neighborhood. </div>
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As I watched, a whole family of pretty little grey kittens and their mom sidled up. Mr. Wilbert turned his wheelchair and went back into the house, calling back over his shoulder, "You better drop my meal off and get back in your car. They won't come up on the porch if they see us here."</div>
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And in fact, as I retreated to my car, I looked back to see the mother cat leading her kittens up onto the porch, and one by one to eat, they bent delicately to each what Mr. Wilbert had left for them. He sat in the doorway and watched them. He knows that feral cats won't let him come out and pet them of course. But he doesn't mind, because he can watch through his
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So here is a man who is poor enough to need subsidize meals, and infirm enough to be wheelchair-bound, and confined to his home. And yet he has
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I talk constantly about the importance of setting up an email list. It’s the
single most important thing you can do to build your author platform.<br />
<strong>I make this very clear in my book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Your-First-Copies-Step---Step-ebook/dp/B00DMIWAIC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472059452&sr=8-1&keywords=your+first+1000+copies#nav-subnav"><em>Your
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“Your #1 goal as an author should be to grow your email list as much as
possible. Write that on a post-it. Recite it to yourself every morning. Tattoo
it on your forehead. <strong>Do whatever it takes to make sure that developing
your email list is the #1 goal of your platform
strategy.”</strong></blockquote>
So let’s say you’ve got that working for you.<br />
You’ve set up an email list with a solid email service provider, and you’ve
started getting subscribers.<br />
<strong>Now what?</strong><br />
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Most writers let those subscriber names just sit there, gathering dust.
They never actually email them.<br />
Or they only email them right before their new book comes out.<br />
Which begs the question …<br />
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How often should you email your subscribers?</h2>
The conventional wisdom is, “Don’t email them too often, because you don’t
want to annoy them—they might unsubscribe!”<br />
However: Take an even halfway logical look at that statement, and you’ll see
it’s false reasoning.<br />
I’m subscribed to the email newsletter <em>NextDraft,</em> which sends me an
email <em>every day</em>. And every day, I read it.<br />
I also get emails every day or two from an online clothing store I like.<br />
I’ve kept my subscriptions to both of them. I’m not at all annoyed by the
frequency of their emails.<br />
Because here’s what I’ve learned:<br />
<strong>People have a high tolerance for receiving useful, entertaining
content.</strong><br />
It’s not about frequency. Your goal is to focus on sending content that is
compelling.<br />
<strong>My definition of marketing is:</strong><br />
<ol>
<li>Creating long-lasting connections with people (getting people onto your
email list)
</li>
<li>Being relentlessly helpful (sending them useful, entertaining content)
</li>
</ol>
So what does that mean for <em>your</em> email list?<br />
<strong>How often should you send? What should you send?</strong><br />
If you’re not sure where to start, here’s what I suggest:<br />
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1. Set a schedule</h2>
Remember, the schedule isn’t for your readers. It’s for you.<br />
Most people are not going to be checking their in-box every day, waiting for
another email from you.<br />
You need to stay in touch, and setting a schedule ensures that you don’t go
six months between emails.<br />
If you don’t have a schedule you’re sticking to, it’ll be too easy to just
stop sending emails.<br />
Then suddenly, when your next book is about to come out, you’ll start
spamming them with messages to buy your book, even though they haven’t heard
from you in a year.<br />
You don’t appreciate that sort of non-involvement from the people you
subscribe to, and neither do your subscribers.<br />
So pick a schedule, and stick to it.<br />
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<strong>My Suggestion</strong><br />
If you don’t know what schedule to set, here’s what to do:<br />
Send two emails a month.<br />
Send the first email on the first Tuesday of the month, and the second email
on the third Tuesday of the month.</div>
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2. Decide on the Content</h2>
It’s important that you decide early on what type of content you’re going to
send your list.<br />
Every week, Shawn Coyne publishes a new blog post at StoryGrid.com. And every
Tuesday afternoon, he sends out a link to that new blog post to everyone on his
email list.<br />
He doesn’t have to decide every week what he’s going to send. He decided what
content to send a long time ago.<br />
He just has to send it.<br />
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<strong>My Suggestion</strong><br />
If you are sending out two emails a month, here’s the content you should be
sending:<br />
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<li><strong>First email of the month (1st Tuesday):</strong> Send new content.
Whether it’s a short story, a new blog post, a book review, or a new podcast
episode. Make this email a “give” of newly created content.
</li>
<li><strong>Second email of the month (3rd Tuesday):</strong> Send an author
update. Remember that your subscribers signed up for <em>your</em> email list.
Make sure you let them know what you’re working on. Include an update on your
latest book, links to anywhere you’ve been interviewed, places you’re traveling
to where they can meet you, upcoming interviews.Let them know what’s going on
with you professionally. </li>
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That’s only twelve pieces of original content a year, and twelve author
updates a year.<br />
That is a <em>very</em> doable schedule, even if you’ve got a full-time day
job.<br />
It ensures that you invest in your relationship with your readers, and stay
connected to them.<br />
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3. Stick with it for 6 months</h2>
Do not change your schedule for six months. You need to give it time to see
how it’s working.<br />
I’ve seen two types of mistakes that can occur when writers don’t adhere to
this kind of set schedule.<br />
<strong>First, you start scaling back on how many emails you send.
</strong><br />
Maybe you got a bunch of unsubscribes, or got a mean reply from a reader. Or
you just got lazy.<br />
Either way, you start slipping and missing your deadlines. The problem with
this, of course, is that it too quickly turns into you not emailing your email
list for six months.<br />
<strong>Second, you send a bunch of emails early on. </strong><br />
A lot of people get excited about the prospect of sending great content to
their list. So they quickly write a lot of content, and decide to send three
emails in a single week.<br />
Sounds great. But at that pace, you’re going to get burnt out very
easily.<br />
<strong>You’ll send three this week. Then three next week. Then nothing for
three months.</strong><br />
The excitement is good, but breaking the schedule is not.<br />
If you’re inspired to write three pieces of content, go ahead and create
them.<br />
Now you’re ahead of schedule, and don’t have to worry about email content for
three months. You can work on your next manuscript instead!<br />
If you change your schedule too soon, you’ll not have given it enough time to
see how well it’s working.<br />
<strong>Wait six months, then step back and evaluate your
schedule.</strong><br />
How does it feel? Are people enjoying the emails? Are you enjoying the
content you’re sending? What could be tweaked and changed?<br />
If you are easily creating enough content to start sending out once a week,
make the change and stick to that schedule for three months.<br />
If you’ve been struggling to get the emails out on time, maybe scale back to
once a month, or once every three weeks.<br />
<strong>Building your email list is important, but so is staying engaged with
your new audience.</strong><br />
So pick a schedule, choose the content, and then stick to it. This will
ensure that you’re investing in your audience.<br />
You want them to be excited to buy your next book, and you help them do that
when you use your blogs and updates, shared at a steady pace, to keep them
engaged with your work.<br />
<strong>Because people unsubscribing from your list is not the worst
thing.</strong><br />
The real tragedy is not staying steadily involved with your readers in
positive ways.<br />
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<br />Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-512875044836121462016-08-27T22:38:00.001-07:002016-10-21T00:58:16.190-07:00Success at any ageTim Meyer<br />
Steve Duncan<br />
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Success at Every Age: People Who Made it Big <img alt="Success at Every Age: People who made it big after 50" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-9998" height="293" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" src="https://www.senioradvisor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Success-at-Every-Age-350x293.jpg" srcset="https://www.senioradvisor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Success-at-Every-Age-350x293.jpg 350w, https://www.senioradvisor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Success-at-Every-Age-768x644.jpg 768w, https://www.senioradvisor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Success-at-Every-Age.jpg 940w" width="350" />after
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Do you still wonder what you want to be when you grow up? You’re in good
company, because plenty of people hit their stride or start a second career at
midlife and later. Duncan Hines, Judge Judy, and Julia Child are just some of
the well-known people who made names for themselves late in life. The cake-mix
brand namesake, television judge, and world-renowned chef had very different
careers with one thing in common: They all earned major success after the age of
50.<br />
<h2>
Duncan Hines got into the food business in his 70s</h2>
The cake mixes that bear his name were a third career for the late Duncan
Hines, who started licensing his name to baked goods and mixes <strong><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/05/louis_hatchett_s_biography_of_duncan_hines_reviewed.html" target="_blank">in the 1950s</a></strong>, when he was in his early 70s. He had
already made a wildly successful second career, writing restaurant and hotel
guides for American road-trippers. His work as an author and critic, which made
him famous enough to warrant the cake-mix business, began when Hines was 55
years old. It grew from his extensive travels during his first career as a
traveling salesman for a printing business.<br />
The lesson: Your next career can be sweeter than your last.<br />
<h2>
Judge Judy’s courtroom show debuted when she was 53</h2>
The road to the longest-running courtroom show on TV wasn’t always an easy
one. Biography.com notes that when <strong><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/judge-judy-9542275#early-career" target="_blank">Judith Blum</a></strong> (now Judy Scheindlin) started law school
in the early 60s, she was the only woman in her class. A dull early career, time
out of the workforce to care for her children, and a divorce all could have
knocked her off track. Her career change to prosecution and later, family court
judge, paved the way to TV fame, as her reputation for fair but blunt justice
grew. She retired from the bench in 1996 at age 53 and that same year launched
“Judge Judy.” She’s appeared in more than 5400 episodes, and her contract runs
through 2020. In 2013, she was the highest-paid star on television, earning
<strong><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/news/tv-highest-paid-stars-1069334/" target="_blank">$47 million</a></strong> per year.<br />
The lesson: Hard work, determination, and a good reputation can really pay
off.<br />
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Julia Child brought French home cooking to America in her 50s</h2>
Is there any foodie or serious home cook in the US who isn’t familiar with
<strong><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/08/julia-child200908" target="_blank">Julia Child</a></strong>? After a wartime stint with the Office of
Strategic Services and her marriage to co-worker Paul Child, Julia found herself
in Paris with time on her hands and a desire to learn to cook like the French.
As her culinary skills grew, so did her eagerness to share her knowledge with
American cooks. In her late 40s, she and her friends published <em>Mastering the
Art of French Cooking</em>, and she was 50 when her PBS show, The French Chef,
debuted. Child, who died in 2004 at age 91, continued writing and television
careers well into her 80s.<br />
The lesson: Find something you love and keep at it.<br />
Want more inspiring senior role models? Read about a senior <strong><a href="https://www.senioradvisor.com/blog/2016/05/active-aging-role-model-lauren-kessler-late-in-life-ballerina/" target="_blank">ballerina</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://www.senioradvisor.com/blog/2016/06/active-aging-role-model-super-yoga-granny-bette-calman/" target="_blank">yoga teacher</a></strong>, and <strong><a href="https://www.senioradvisor.com/blog/2015/11/active-aging-role-model-hershel-mcgriff/" target="_blank">race car driver</a></strong> on our blog.<br />
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Alicia Rasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143623145712619511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771004223305291535.post-9847100749533429882016-08-27T17:20:00.002-07:002016-08-27T22:28:26.797-07:00Live Every Decade as If It's Your LastRemember:<br />
"Live every day as if it's the last?"<br />
<br />
Kind of hard, but useful, especially for younger people who tend not to focus too much, because of course most of them have not days but DECADES to go.<br />
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But what about those of us who have already lived decades?<br />
We have a pretty good idea (having seen it with our parents and older friends) what a "last day" is like. And anyway, what we still want to do is going to take more than a day, however fulfilling that day might be.<br />
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How about we try a different motto:<br />
Live this decade as if it's the last.<br />
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This has a couple advantages.<br />
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First, not to be a Debbie Downer, but it could be true. If you're a Boomer, heck, if you're over 50, this could well be your last decade.<br />
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It PROBABLY won't, but let's just accept the reality. I had (of course) four grandparents. One died at 52 (people had hard lives back then). One died at 67, one at 66. (The meanest, Grandma Todd, lived into her 80s. That says something or other!) It's hard to look at the age on my Facebook profile and realize... I'm as old as my grandparents were when I was growing up. (And let me just confess-- I'm not half as mature as they were.<br />
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