All Entries in the "Self-Improvement" Category
How not to look old, part 10—wear your own nails
When most women over 50 look at their hands, they see their grandmothers staring back at them—Yikes! Whose hands are those?? As we get older, our skin becomes thinner and the veins pop out, and our nails get brittle and soft, and no matter how good our faces look, our hands often give away our [...]
Permanent Weight Loss Strategy #4–Live Intentionally
“Be planted firmly in the driver’s seat of your own life.”
Are you planted firmly in the driver’s seat of your own life? Or are you lost in the cacophony of a too-busy lifestyle where one activity blurs into the next without a moment to re-group and catch your breath?
In a society that has [...]
Rhubarb pie for menopausal symptom relief?
Have your pie and eat it too? Well, not exactly. You can have your rhubarb pie but a better choice might be the purified and standardized extract from the roots of the Siberian rhubarb.
This Siberian rhubarb is similar to the well-known garden rhubarb (R. rhabarbarum) commonly prepared as food or in your favorite strawberry rhubarb [...]
Adam vs. Eve at the gym
As children we often fought with our siblings, and regardless of gender it was a fair game—our body size and composition were somewhat similar. In fact, there was little difference in our height, weight and even strength. But in no time at all, the onset and progression of puberty began and all of a sudden [...]
Stress and worry decline for women over 50
Here’s a great article I read recently in USA Today about stress and adults over 50.
By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY
After 50, daily stress and worry take a dive and daily happiness increases, according to an analysis of more than 340,000 adults questioned about the emotions they experienced “yesterday.”
The research, published online today in the journal [...]
Reality check–are your finances in order?
When it comes to our financial health, there’s an important reality to consider:
Men and women are different.
Men and women aren’t just from different planets; they occupy different places on the economic spectrum, too.
The earnings gap
Despite comprising 2/3 of the U.S. workforce, women earn 76 cents for each dollar earned by men. The average [...]
Stop your self-sabotage
All of us have set goals at one time or another that we just couldn’t reach. Whether it be personal or professional, often it just seems that something within us gets in the way of success, and we settle for less than what we really deserve.
I heard a wonderful speaker recently who gave some great [...]
Fabulous 50, better than ever
Did you know that:
One of every five adults today is a woman over 50
59% of women at 50 or above say that the best years of their lives are still ahead
Women over 50 account for 50% of managers and professionals in the workplace today
Women have [...]
Exercise for your brain
One inarguable fact of aging—the older we get, the fuzzier our brains get. Whether it’s from hormonal imbalances, years of multi-tasking, or just plain being tired, our memory fades and we find it harder to concentrate on the smallest tasks. We enter a room and wonder “why did I come in here?” We forget to [...]
How I “vision” my future
I participated in a “vision board” workshop Saturday. It was an interactive exercise where people from all walks of life came together to focus on their own personal goals for the future. Many of us were looking for something more meaningful career-wise. Some were just looking for a job or to make order out of [...]
Your personal brand.
Did you know you have a “personal brand?” Just like Target, Nordstrom or Williams Sonoma, your name conjures up images and feelings when someone hears it.
I’ve been going through the process of discovering my brand for a couple of weeks. At first, I thought I had to develop a brand. But then my friend Sherry [...]
