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Believers
in the Law of Attraction, take heed! If you are afraid, don’t try to
resist your fear. If you do, then you will give more power to it and
end up attracting what you are afraid of. I know. I’ve just experienced
my worst fear: of being very sick, alone, and uncertain about what is
happening.[ Read More]
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By Shae Hadden | Bio
My life is my game—no one else’s. And I create the rules. What freedom,
what choices, what responsibility! Playing ‘by the rules’ means playing
according to choices I’ve made about what’s ‘best’ for me. And that’s
left me in a quandary, because many ‘old rules’ don’t fit anymore. It’s
time to examine them, keep the ones that still suit me and replace any
unworkable ones. So here I am, wondering how to pick and choose from
the rules I have been playing by. Yet is it possible for us to know what choices, what rules will be ‘right’?
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By Shae Hadden | Bio
Conversations
can change the world. When we speak openly about what matters most to
us, we can build authentic relationships. We can tap into the wisdom
and collective intelligence we need to address our problems. We can
create the future together. I’ve been excited in the last few weeks to learn about The World Café
through conversations with Juanita Brown, co-founder of the World Café
and Anne Dosher, who at age 85 serves as the “elder” of this global
movement to create cultures of dialogue.[ Read More]
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By Shae Hadden | Bio I'm intrigued by the popularity of online life expectancy
calculators. Like reading tea leaves, tarot cards or astrological
charts, many people seem to be fascinated with the idea of predicting
their future. This compulsion to 'know how much time we have' is
closely tied with a desire to re-engineer our lives to reduce or
eliminate aging altogether. As if each of us has an expiry date that we
can scan so we can know when we'll be used up! The concept of
'life expectancy' is based on statistical projections, which are based
on past history. When you think about it, the whole idea is based on
the premise that the past is an accurate predictor of the future. [ Read More]
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 By Shae HaddenBio
I came across a new take on the phrase "Act your age!" today.
Consider that the entire universe is made up of the same matter, the
same particles that existed in the first flaring forth of space and
time. And that these same particles are recycled into different forms
time and time again. Essentially, each one of us is as old as our
universe. And according to recent calculations based on the Big Bang
theory, that's about 13.7 billion years old. In other cosmological
models, the universe has an infinite age. [ Read More]
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By Shae HaddenBio
Expectations are basic to who we are. From the time we are born, we
live in a relationship with the future based on our experience of the
past and the interpretations of reality that we learn from our culture
and history. We learn from our parents to live up to our expectations.
We organize our actions based on them and, more often than not, they
become self-fulfilling. When something unexpected occurs, we feel
fortunate if it is good and upset if it is bad. Our moods are always
correlated to our expectations. And as we grow older, most of us expect
to ‘slow down’, experience declining health, need to change our
lifestyle and perhaps to give up many of the things we’ve enjoyed most
in our lives. The general expectation of old age is one of decline.
If
I were to have a child (a hypothetical choice at this point in my life,
as I am long past my child-bearing years), I would not be able to bring
them up without teaching them what to expect in the future. For from
the first time they cry and I respond, I would begin a pattern of
stimulus-and-response behavior that would create an expectation. If I
can perceive that my child is hungry, I would feed them: wet, I would
change them. In need of tender touch and affirmation of my presence, I
would provide both for them. And in doing so, they would connect their
need and their rudimentary vocal and body language with a fulfillment
of that need. The mere act of making a request by verbalizing or
indicating with some form of ‘language’, followed by a patterned
response, creates a context of expectation.[ Read More]
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By Shae HaddenBio
I’m pondering this throw-away comment, something I’ve heard countless times before and never really thought about. What do we really mean when we say someone isn’t ‘acting their age’? In
effect, we’re judging whether their actions are ‘normal’ and
‘acceptable’—as compared to the majority of people of that same
chronological age in our society. But our assessments are neither true,
nor false. They are simply our perspective, our evaluation, of what we
perceive.[ Read More]
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It's Jim's birthday today and everyone at Serene Ambition would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the difference he has made in our lives. Thank you, Jim! [ Read More]
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 Shae is committed to multigenerational collaboration towards
peace, sustainability, and the health and wellbeing of people of all
ages. Since 2007, she has been developing strategies and designing
programs to encourage purpose, mastery and contribution in later life.
In her view, everyone has the potential to be a leader—at any age—and
the epitome of leadership is being ‘wisdom in action’ (sharing the best
of who we are and what we know in a way that empowers others).
Shae has successfully communicated as a performer on stage, an
executive administrator behind the scenes in the theatre, film and
television industries, and as a project manager for website and
multimedia projects. As an associate of Paracomm Partners International,
she specializes in coaching senior executives on accelerating the
development of young leaders through commitment-based relationships.
With New Leaf Communications, her marketing consultancy, she also
coaches and works on special projects with young entrepreneurs and
seasoned leaders who are transforming the prevailing paradigms of our
times. Shae is currently a member of the Purpose Project Guild, the
Sage-ing® Guild and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. [ Read More]
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I was surprised to sit down to dinner at a restaurant last night and
look up to see a table full of women boldly wearing red hats sitting
across from me. Few people wear hats these days, fewer still with any
sense of style. Yet these ladies, members of the Red Hat Society, were obviously comfortable with themselves and sassy enough to carry it off.[ Read More]
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Autumn leaves submit to scattering:
lying down on wet cement
like an abstract expression of natural beauty
captured by the elements in a
kaleidoscope of chaos
revealing the influence of time on life
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