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THIS IS ME.
Welcome to this website.
In the upcoming articles, I want to think about aging well. My perspective and opinions will be geared toward women 35 and older. Maturing is not an easy task, because not only is it never done, but as soon as you achieve a goal for your present level, life sends along another level to challenge you. So each day, there has to be a reward for playing the game, or what would be the point?
I’m in my late forties in October, 2oo7. I have 3 children. I’m a farmer’s wife and a veterinarian. There is so much more that I want to become and contribute. I don’t ever want to be inhibited by any notions that I’m too old. I truly believe that there is no such thing.
Women, like men become profoundly more aware of their position in the human cooperative as they age. Our character develops texture and depth beyond anything we could have perceived in our twenties.
10 categories
1. Happiness
Women naturally discover personal power as they age. Attitude is not the same. Speaking your mind is not the same. Security in the understanding of what you can and cannot live with is part of it. It requires a certain kindness and ability to give, and drawing strength from that – not charity, but knowing absolutely that by giving, we receive. The greatest reward of aging well is attaining deep calm and profound happiness.
2. and 3. Skin care and Makeup
The second group of articles will be related to looking beautiful with ideas and information about skin care (my personal passion) and makeup (too much fun to miss out on). We’ll talk a lot about how to identify state-of-the-art, affordable skin care and how to find the help you need to recognize the beauty industry’s fantastic false promises which both fascinate and frustrate me. You will never again pay for products that fail to perform.
Attractive, effective makeup is very much a matter of taste. I have my own opinions that I will share.
Though I can see physical beauty in young faces, shocking beauty in fact, I can’t see much wisdom or grace, and certainly very little power. Those must be earned and truly do radiate from the faces of women as they enter their 40s and beyond. You will find articles about enhancing that beauty with amazing products and the companies that sell them.
4. Paula’s Choice
This category could be considered a subdivision of the Skin Care and Makeup categories. Located just outside the city of Seattle, Paula’s Choice creates skin care products and cosmetics for sale over the internet. Paula Begoun has researched skin care ingredients for over 30 years and has written many books providing consumers with information and research that helps us find a clear and honest path through the maze of cosmetics marketing.
As a natural spin-off of her accumulated knowledge and from the frustration with the misinformation the cosmetics industry disseminates, Paula began creating her own products in 1995.The products are, in themselves, incredible with the most modern state-of-the-art formulations and reasonable prices. Some of them are quite unique in the entire industry.
Paula’s Choice also represents a new era in corporate behavior for their responsible and honest marketing, for their willingness to listen to and respond to consumers, and for animal- friendly and eco-friendly policies. This is a corporation you will enjoy dealing with and getting to know.
I am here to tell you that these products will impress you and quite probably outperform anything you are presently using. (And, no, I am not paid to write this).
5. and 6. Move Your Body and Food&Recipes
Notice I didn’t call it ‘Diet and Exercise”. A lot has been said, and said well, on both those topics. So much in fact, that we see the words and feel pangs of guilt because we know we could all do better. Nothing I live or talk about ever involves guilt so I’m going to avoid using those words.
You can’t age well without the energy that comes with health and strength. It’s remarkable how much emotional potency can come from finding some physical power. Once you’ve incorporated a little movement into your life, and felt a little physical intensity, your body’s appearance will improve by itself. (meaning life is trying to hand you all the motivation it can).
Your brain eats what you eat. This road we’re taking will be about what is going on inside our heads and how we can learn to control it. Our thoughts do not control us; we control our thoughts. Think about how powerful that is for a moment. Food is not about how you look to other people. It’s about the incredible places your brain will go while your body just follows along.
7. Sites To Know will be a category devoted to introducing to other blogs and websites that you should be aware of. The power of the internet to connect and inform us has no precedent in human history. I want to be part of all of it.
8. Money has a language and an energy that is unique. Too often, we as women allow a husband/father/banker to control what is ours. Though others may have more experience in dealing with money, they are not necessarily more capable at it. In fact, once women understand the language of money, we are often better investors and bigger risk-takers.
It is so important that we cease giving away this power and confront the hesitation we might have about managing our own finances. Money is in a category of its own, just as it is in life.
9. Love My Computer is here because I love my computer. The places it shows me, the people I meet, the things I learn… I couldn’t get through a day without it.
10. Outside The Box will be the catch-all category for items that do not fit nicely into the topics above. For example, if I’m ever taken by a fit of passion and write a post on Josh Groban, it would be included here.
11. This Month in … will feature a review, a comment, or an opinion on the articles that caught my attention in a magazine for that month. Sometimes, a month will go by where I saw nothing interesting to think about. Magazines are fun and easy. I allow myself one each month, usually Allure, Oprah, More, or InStyle.
Decide that your life’s journey will be fantastic
I’m not a makeup artist, a fitness professional, or an authority in nutrition. I’ve just tried to live the life. I have learned from experts in those fields and incorporated these lessons into my every day existence. I’ve put a lot of thought into advice which would work for all women, not just me, and which suggestions should be ignored. This has put me on a path where every year is richer, stronger, and more deeply satisfying than any years that have come before. That’s what I want to share with you.
I have such a deeply held belief in these words that practicing these convictions has become an essential part of my daily living and of my identity. My faith in these truths is absolutely solid and I have a personal need to share this with you in the hope that you can know with certainty that there are no limits to what you can attain.
I so want to motivate you to make the changes that will bring power and wellness into your life because you’ll become who you want to be much faster. There is a definite energy slant that will appear, not the ‘energy to get through the day and get more done’ angle, but rather the frequency and wavelength that you are sending out into the Universe every moment, and how learning to feel that can help you find your place. Why would you let yourself miss out on such an experience?
With amazingly little effort, you can feel your body and your mind hum differently than they did before. For a little while, you can feel like you can do, have, or be anything. There is no doubt or question that this is true. How do we get to that place? And once you know how it feels for a moment, how do you learn to stay there?
