 By Jim Selman | Bio
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have been talking about ‘completion’ a lot lately. It is basically that
state of being where we can let the past be in the past and not try to
control everything to make the future turn out the way we want it.
Completion is a necessary state if we want live in the present. One of
the things that keeps us from being complete is guilt. Guilt is a waste
of time. It is blaming ourselves for whatever we think we’ve done
wrong. As far as I can tell, it is also a cover-up for not being
responsible for whatever we did that we’re feeling guilty about.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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According to Professor Yarrow, a history professor at American
University, it is unpatriotic to retire while you are still in good
health.
"Retiring when you're still in good health isn't just
wrong, it's profoundly selfish and unpatriotic...Dropping out of the
workforce while still in one's prime means ending one's contributions
to America's strength, mortgaging our children's and grandchildren's
future, and leeching trillions of taxpayer dollars from the economy...
If millions of Americans worked until age 67 instead of 62...[they]
would increase national output and personal wealth and keep the labor
force at a healthy level." [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Retirement
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I was speaking with a friend recently about age in general, how we
‘remember’ our lives and the power of memories to affect our day-to-day
experience. From one perspective, I think that living in the present is
the point of living—experientially at least. When we are present, our
memories are just memories and don’t affect us either positively or
negatively. Our memories are our ‘story’, and we can relate to our past
as just that—a story. On the other hand, our moods and our memories are
very connected. While the past is the past, it can have an impact on
the present. Memory can enrich our lives and allow us to ‘relive’ happy
moments or it can displace and diminish our lives, burying us in
caskets of regret, resentment, fear and guilt.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment
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I am not sure it’s possible to waste time. It is possible to spend time, and waste is always a judgement relative to some standard or expectation of what we should be doing with our time. We can use time to do things that we judge as having maximum or high value. When we are really up against a deadline and there is more to do than we think can be done in the time allotted, we can even somehow create time. Yet, there are many times when I just don’t feel like doing whatever it is I think I should do. [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment
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