On those days when your mature woman mojo isn’t motivated and your mind and body refuse to move, what effective techniques do you use to stay on a positive path? Game On The struggle begins when you pull the bed covers off your comfy, warm body and start your day with a hot coffee or […]
5 Guideposts for Developing Patience and Reducing Stress after 60
As published in SixtyandMe Decades ago, I decided that it would be my major intention in life to develop more patience. As a result, I am always mindful of my pre-disposition to lose patience with people, places, things, and most of all, grocery store check-out lines. But the good news is, I am making progress […]
5 Ways to Create Lasting Positive Change in Your Life
If you want to create lasting positive change in your life in the healthiest and most instructive way, let go of the negative. What is your usual go-to attitude when something adverse happens to you? How do you respond when it’s time to make difficult changes in your life, when it’s time to forgive a […]
Looking into the Future: What’s in Your Survival Kit?
As published in Sixty and Me Looking into the future: Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a human survival kit in your possession? The kit would answer the most important questions about your life: How will your life end? Will you find love? Will you be fulfilled emotionally and psychologically? Will you have enough money […]
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Joan Frances Moran is a regular columnist for Women of Power Magazine Are we having Fun yet? How many times have you been invited to lunch, or dinner, to a club or to the movies with high expectations about what will happen? How fun it will be! Getting together with the girls or in a […]
A Quick Technique To Stay Positive When You’re Feeling Down
Published in Women of Power Magazine We all like to think of ourselves as the woman warrior, the indomitable female the can-do girl who lives every moment with intensity and attention. But, alas, we are human and we have our down days and up days and in-between days. The days when we don’t feel as […]
5 Powerful Ways to Free Your Mind and Discover Personal Success
Published in the Huffington Post, 4/15/2015 My eldest son just recently left his job because he was terribly unhappy and unfulfilled. Since he has a family to support — three of my grandchildren and a wife — it felt to most of the family that leaving a well-paid job was professional suicide. A Rough Go […]
Mindfulness As A Management Skill
Mindfulness might seem like a touchy-feely way to train future corporate executives in management skills, but research supports the idea that mindfulness – paying attention to what’s happening in the present moment – is essential to becoming an effective leader. Mindful meditation or awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical […]
Mindful Meditation: Staying On The Path
A few nights ago I went to a meditation class. There is a new yoga studio in my neighborhood and it has a peaceful vibe. I know about it because one Sunday morning I was walking through the Brentwood Farmer’s Market and a young man looked me straight in the eye as I passed him […]