- Get Out of the Car
- 09-06-25
- Driving is so much a part of most peoples lives that they forget the incredible burden it can be. Few tasks require such a commitment to comprehensive concentration as we pay attention not only to what were doing but to what every other driver is doi
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- Never Give Up
- 09-06-25
- There are stories we hear about people becoming an overnight suc- cess. Of course, it often took them decades of anonymous hard work to get there. Regardless, success never stops satisfying. Far from losing its power, success late in life is every bi
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- Volunteer for Yourself
- 09-06-25
- Volunteering for a cause you care about is not only a great benefit to others but also a great benefit to yourself. Volunteering demon- strates our own humanity to us, and it offers us a wonderful oppor- tunity for cultivating feelings of connection
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- Life Gets Easier
- 09-06-25
- Some parts of lifemowing the lawn, moving furniture, and so onget harder and harder as we age. But life itself tends to get easier. As we age, we tend to find deeper meaning in the things that truly matter to us. Take comfort in the thought that the
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- Live Beyond Your Family Model
- 09-06-25
- Most of us imagine that as we age, everything becomes easier that we will have experience and wisdom to guide us. But the truth is that for all the years weve lived, weve never before been fifty, or sixtyor retired. We tend to fall back on examples w
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- Get Away from It All
- 09-06-25
- In every life there should be regular moments of awe. For most of us, our homes and communities may meet our usual needs, but they seldom inspire us. Take time on a regular basis to put yourself in a completely natural setting. Leave the city or the
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- Embrace Challenges
- 09-06-17
- There are many things we wish to dofrom changing a tire to changing our livesthat we avoid because we are afraid of failure. We fear the direct evidence of our weakness, so we dont even bother to try. Ironically, our lack of effort is our true weakne
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- Transitions Can Be Both Happy and Sad
- 09-06-17
- We like to see things in clear terms: Hot is the opposite of cold. Small is the opposite of big. Happy is the opposite of sad. But our emotional lives are more complicated than that. We can be both happy and sad at the thought of transitions in our l
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- See Beyond You
- 09-06-17
- Be open. Be welcoming. Be the person who wants other people around. Engage yourself in the lives of others, and you will see great rewards with minimal costs. They had no illusions about being interesting. We thought, Why not be up-front about it? Lo
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- Stay in Control
- 09-06-17
- Your life is the consequence of your decisions. Regardless of your life situation, you have to see that your decisions matter. Though embracing this view means accepting accountability and responsi- bility for your lifeheavy burdens indeedthe most im
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- The Future Can Be Brighter Than the Past
- 09-06-17
- In most things, weve taught ourselves to see tomorrow as an extension of today. Things that are true now will continue to be true: The sun will rise in the east. Autumn will follow summer. But we are not limited in our happiness by the patterns we se
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- The Best Life Needs No Trophy
- 09-06-17
- It seems almost everything is competitive. People compete in an amazing array of contextsfrom the job, to the home, to just about any arena you can imagine. For an example of how out of hand our competitiveness has become, just think about the fact t
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- Respond to Stress
- 09-06-17
- Stress is an accumulation of events and circumstances that repre- sent more than we can handle. Stress eats away at our bodys abil- ity to function both mentally and physically. The best response to stress is not to push yourself and wait for it to g
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- Avoid Generational Competition
- 09-06-17
- Generations see things differently because of changes in the cul- ture, because of changes in events, and sometimes just because they can. Accepting different generational perspectives as a reality of life, rather than feeling a sense of rivalry agai
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- See a New Way
- 09-06-17
- When the easy answers have been tried and the problem remains, the time is ripe for your creative powers. Be willing to look at things in a new way, think about them with a fresh perspective, and tap the hidden ideas within yourself. Gerry was an exe
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- Know Your Health
- 09-06-17
- The less we know about something, the more we are subject to its vagaries. In ancient times, the Incas and the Aztecs feared comets because they did not understand their movements. Etruscans feared the weather because its patterns of change were so i
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- See the Real Pay in Work
- 09-06-17
- Asked to define the rewards of work, people first think of money. But for most of us, the value of work is not merely a paycheck but a host of personal and social rewards that make us feel weve accomplished something and are part of a team. When eval
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- Believe You Can
- 09-06-17
- We love tests and contests. We want to know who is better, in everything from spelling to sprinting. We embrace the certainty that everything can be measured and that the results will tell us who can do what. Unfortunately, there are no tests for the
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- Be Decisive
- 09-06-17
- We can actually suffer from having too many alternatives when we make a decision. Our lives are loaded with alternatives. We can fol- low almost an infinite number of directions. How can we be sure we pick the best one? We cant be. The task is to mak
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- Sign Up for Everything
- 09-06-17
- High school kids across the land are busy signing up for the school paper, the debate club, and the basketball team. You may think that now that youre older, those days are gone. The truth is that throw- ing yourself into as many activities as you ca
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