Welcome to a collection of thoughts, tips, and techniques on living a Wise and Wild and Wonderful Life.
A wise and wild life is a rich, joyous, wonderful life.
It’s using all the wisdom you’ve gathered so far to create the life of your dreams and adding a touch of wildness in the form experimentation, openness to new things and seeing joy.
It’s a life of your own choosing.
There’s always something new to try, to think about, to savor.
There are thousands of women over fifty creating wise, wild and wonderful lives, and some of their stories will be here.
Come play with us!
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Time to Do a Brain Dump For the past few weeks, people who I perceive as having wronged or wounded me have been floating around in my head. I knew that it was past time to do a little house cleaning; I just wasn't sure how to proceed. Prior Efforts Several years ago I...
read moreRole Juggling and Boundaries
Time. Who's using yours? For me, one of the biggest challenges in managing my time is less the actual hours and minutes; it's more the time my mind spends on projects. It's not so hard to calendar events and project time; it's much harder to keep my mind on one thing...
read moreManaging a This AND Life
Do You Juggle Multiple Roles? Many of us somehow manage to do several things at once. I'm a Life Architect and Professional Noodge/Author. I know a psychotherapist/potter, two life coach/ministers, an artist/business coach, an author/workshop leader and many, many...
read moreHow Seven Questions and Seven Traits Create Your Life Design
The Sevens There are two sets of sevens that helped me create a life design framework for my work with women ready to construct their best life. The first is a group of seven questions that I ask women who are planning their lives: Life Planning These questions help...
read moreNew Words, New Perspective for 2018
Year in Review Regrets? Every January, I conduct a personal year in review. I note the highlights in my gratitude journal, I list my achievements, I review my goals. At the end, I'm left with a glow tinged with a bit of regret. My plan is always to build on my...
read moreWhat Are You Holding On To By Pushing It Down?
Odd Question? Sounds like an odd question, doesn't it? Mark Nepo, in The Book of Awakening, says, "What is not ex-pressed gets de-pressed." So, today I ask myself, what needs to get uncovered? What needs to see the light of day, get felt fully, expressed to myself,...
read moreS-M-A-R-T Goals
Now you have an outline for your plan. In order to get specific on the actionable steps in your plan, you’re going to break it down into steps and then use a proven formula: S-M-A-R-T. For each of your accomplishments, make a list of all the steps you can think of...
read moreCreating a Plan
What’s Your Plan? Now that it’s clear where you’re going, it’s time to look at how to get there. This is where you will draw on your goal setting skills, but you’ll be using those skills in a slightly different way. You’ll repeat this process for each of your...
read moreAccomplishments
What Will You Have Accomplished? It makes sense to start with endings, not beginnings. You already understand beginnings very well – you may be there right now, and probably not for the first time. If you’re like me, you may have spent less time thinking abut the end...
read moreWriting a Vision Statement
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become. Anonymous A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become...
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