Most resolutions end up being difficult things to follow through on, as most of us know by now! In order to achieve any goal your mind has to be in the right place. Mindset has a great deal to do with following through on a goal of any kind. If you are not in the right frame of mind, you can’t achieve any of your goals.

When I was young someone told me to always remember these three things before you speak.

1. Is it true?

2. Is it necessary?

3. Is it Kind?

It might be the best advice I ever got…

Many of you tell me you want to make changes to age well but do not know where to start; that you have lost sight of goals in your life and feel irrelevant or invisible. Maybe this is because your lack of doing has made you invisible or irrelevant to yourself

You can see this purpose in small ways throughout your life. When you look at the events of your life and see that a subsequent thing could not have happened without the thing that preceded it. That this particular event could not have happened if a certain “thing” had not happened to cause it.

Part of yourself is left behind in the marriage that no longer exists. You are no longer sure which parts of you remain and how to reconnect with parts of your personality that you may have left dormant when being a partner to your spouse became a priority in your life.

Getting old isn’t for sissies is a saying that my mom and dad had framed on the wall in their home. When I was young it was a just a joke we laughed about. But now at age 75 I have come to know the true meaning of that phrase as I see it from my parents point of view.