No matter what you choose to call it, helping another person is one of the highest achievements of human life. One of the values of Baby Boomers that appears in almost every survey of their goals or aspirations or values is the desire to help others. Call it altruism, if you wish, many call . . . → Read More: The Dream to Help Another
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Dreams are thoughts of a new future that have the power to make us stop and consider them. In this way, they can be seen as opportunities waiting for us to take action. Often, however, we are too consumed with living out the requirements of the moment to stop and consider the beauty of . . . → Read More: Dreams are Opportunities Waiting for Action Goats have a checkered role through human history. They once fulfilled a very important role in society. When psychology and psychiatry and sociology came of age, many societies decided they no longer needed the idea of a scapegoat. As a result, they also gave up the actual practice of using a scapegoat. The practice . . . → Read More: Bring Back the Scapegoat! A recent study by ComingofAge.com of Baby Boomers found that the following values are most important to the generation: Autonomy and self sufficiency (independence/participation) Social connectedness (relationships/friendships) Altruism (opportunity to share wisdom and ability to do for others: family, community and country) Personal growth (gain knowledge) Revitalization (need to rejuvenate) This is a good . . . → Read More: What Are Your Values? It is likely to be a fact of life that Baby Boomers will need to work in some capacity beyond age 65. Hopefully we are enthusiastically embracing the fact that there is an entire new stage of living for us beyond that number. Hundreds of thousands of us will decide to reinvent ourselves into . . . → Read More: Now is the Time to Get the Skills You Need for your Next Career Do you remember when you were a young child and people asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up? Do you remember rattling off a list of occupations, much like a shopping list? The notable thing to me, as I think back, is that the conjunction in the list was not . . . → Read More: Doing It All – the Gift of a Longer Life If we listen to all of the journalists who are trying to paint a picture of what “retirement” will be like for the Baby Boomer generation, we could easily become depressed. If we really take seriously everything some of the commentators are saying, we must believe our future is going to be 30 years . . . → Read More: Not Going Gently into Meaninglessness In case you missed it, there was an interesting article in the February 16, 2010 issue of U.S. News & World Report by Emily Brandon, entitled “10 Ways Baby Boomers will Reinvent Retirement.” It is a good article, and I hope you will read it, as well as some of the related articles to . . . → Read More: Consider the slant on what you read How often do you laugh in each day? As you are beginning to see a few wrinkles appearing on your face, are they laugh lines or scowl creases? Laughter is good for us, according to several medical studies. Laughter has been demonstrated to reduce pain, relieve stress, restores hope, lowers blood pressure and is . . . → Read More: Overcome with Laughter I don’t know or know of any human being who has not made mistakes. Some of us think we make more than others; some think we make less. Mistakes are simply a fact of life. Like failure, the question is not if it happens – the question that matters is what we do with . . . → Read More: Moving Beyond Mistakes |
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