 By Jim Selman | Bio
I think there is a time when we realize that
‘what got us here’ isn’t sufficient to get us ‘where we want to go’.
These times are the transition points in life, the points where we have
an opportunity to make major choices and embark on a new phase of our
lives—to experience a transformation in how we observe and relate to
ourselves, other people and the world in general. I can recall having
this feeling when I left home for college, again when I got married,
when my children were born and at various times when I changed the
direction of my career.[ Read More]
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 By Kevin Brown | Bio
In my previous post,
I mentioned two books that I was in the process of reading, Ken
Dychtwald's "With Purpose" and Don Tapscott's "Grown Up Digital".
Ken's book calls us to consider how we will spend our time and apply
our life experience in the later stages of our life. Don's book has us
consider the impact the 'Net Generation' is having on the world at
large. I have only begun to read "Grown up Digital" and already I am
reading it from the perspective of aging. While considering the impact
of the 'Net Generation', I am really listening for "What does this mean
to the generation of baby boomers (my generation) that is about to
retire and how will it directly or indirectly influence our
generation's impact on society going forward?"[ Read More]
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Beware the latest form of employment scams: Twitter-style. Con artists are now using the popular micro-blogging site Twitter to lure people desperate for work into work-at-home schemes. Many of these schemes used to focus on making money by sending emails or by placing Google ads. The latest variation is a promise to make money working at home on Twitter. Companies like Easytweetprofits.com and make-money-on-twitter.com (associated with TwitterProfitHouse.com) promise from $250 a day to $5000 a month for posting links to Twitter. If you're interested, you supposedly only have to pay a few dollars for a 7-day trial instructional CD. However, buried in the terms and conditions of the contract is a clause stating that if you don't cancel the contract, you will be charged a monthly amount on an ongoing basis (such as $47 or $99). And your trial period starts from the day you ORDER the CD (not when you receive it). Avoid getting burned by steering clear of any 'work at home' offers that: - Sound too good to be true (as in, there is no actual work involved, just a scheme to make money).
- Promise lots of money for little effort and no experience
- Request money up-front to get more information about the job or to be considered for it
- In the case of Twitter, you find exactly the same 'tweet' being posted by a number of different people (the links in these can lead to scam sites or install malware on your computer).
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I confess to be among those who have some
difficulty getting my head around how much a trillion dollars is. I can
remember a book I read to my daughter called How Much is a Billion that
was filled with mind-boggling examples, including things like the
number of seconds that have passed since Jesus was born. The Huffington
Post has a fun video clip
showing the same kinds of illuminating examples, such as a trillion
dollars is enough to buy a Starbucks Latte every day for the next 900
million years. The only problem with these kinds of illustrations is
that I can’t get my head around 900 million years either, let alone
roughly 3 billion lattes.[ Read More]
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 By Mariette Sluyter | The Foundation LabRead the first part of this article here.
As the project began we hit many
roadblocks. (Blessedly, none of them were from funders or supportive
agencies, but from individual human beings.) Shock, laughter, denial,
repulsion and silencing. This came from youth, middle-aged people,
professionals and, most heartbreakingly, seniors themselves. The
attempts we made to overcome the roadblocks came from every angle. When
one approach failed,[ Read More]
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By Mariette Sluyter | The Foundation Lab
Seniors Sexual Health was not an area I was particularly drawn to as
a 40-something community developer until a staggering statistic was
pointed out to me: oositive HIV tests among those over 50 have risen
from 7.5% between 1985 and 1998 to 13.5% in 2005. After some thinking about the statistic, my colleague Nicole Hergert with The Calgary Sexual Health Centre and I [ Read More]
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By Jim Selman | Bio
Perhaps the most pervasive and omnipresent
aspect of being alive is our moods. We are always in one mood or
another. Moods are either positive or negative and they ‘color’ our
experience of living, affect how we relate to others and our
circumstances, and have extraordinary power to open or close
possibilities. If we examine this phenomenon, we can see that our moods
are portable—we take them with us wherever we go. I can be angry at
home and find that mood affecting me at work or even on the golf
course. Moods are also[ Read More]
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By Jim Selman | Bio
Socrates said that we don’t really have
wisdom until we learn to die. Cornell West said the same thing in the
acclaimed documentary Examined Life by Astra Taylor. When I
first became interested in aging and how our culture views ‘growing
older’ many years ago, I learned that, beyond a certain age, very few
people seem to be afraid of death. Some may be afraid of dying with
unfinished business, but we eventually reach a point when the fact of
our death is no longer such a big deal. The big question is when will
we face the fact that we will die?[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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By Jim Selman | Bio
The following
thoughts were shared by a friend of mine on the question of what it is
like to ‘be’ older and wiser. I think they express something we can all
learn from if we haven’t already. "What’s it like to 'be' my age? Besides the obvious physical changes, there is a kind of[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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By Kevin Brown | Bio
I was reading Ken Dychtwald’s With Purpose
recently, and was struck by a comment in the introduction. He noted
that "in a single generation, sixty-two went from 'such a long life' to
'he died so young'." Being 57 myself, I have a personal interest in
the subject of aging and how I can continue to live a life that is
significant and contributes to the communities in which I live, learn,
work, and play. Another book that is waiting to be read is Canadian author Don Tapscott’s Grown Up Digital.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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