by Sabrina Roblin | Sep 19, 2017 | Childhood, Embrace Your Dream, Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter
By Sabrina Roblin “Studies are showing that the potential for creative expression in the second half of life is not the exception but the rule.” – Gene D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D. Author, The Creative Age Reading the title of this blog, you might have had visions of a...
by Caroline Hall | Sep 13, 2017 | Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Retirement
By Caroline MacNeill Hall Repurpose Your Mastery for a Rich Next Chapter The older I get, the more scattered I am. But when I’m leading a workshop (which is what I do for a living), I’m better than ever. This is why it’s so imp0rtant to always have an arena where you...
by Life Reinspired | Sep 7, 2017 | Childhood, Life Reinspired, Retirement
By Michael MacNeill A chance breakfast with my great pal Bob Votruba and his furry friend Bogart was all it took to remind me of all those who can benefit from kindness–tender acts of service, support, or recognition. Bob used to be a captain of industry and has...
by Sabrina Roblin | Aug 30, 2017 | Embrace Your Dream, Life Reinspired, Retirement
By Sabrina Roblin Time is a non-renewable resource. Once we spend it, it’s gone. We can’t get it back, we can’t grow more, and as we move along the continuum of life, we have less and less, which makes it one of the most precious resources we have. It’s something...
by Caroline Hall | Aug 16, 2017 | Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter
By Caroline Hall Let me get to the point first–Baby Boomers have redefined every stage of life by envisioning new possibilities. And now I’ll tell you a story: This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Summer of Love, a brief shining...
by Katherine Olivetti | Aug 2, 2017 | Life Reinspired
By Katherine Olivetti When my colleagues at LIFE REINSPIRED wanted to include the topic: LEGACY in the program we were designing for folks who were in the range of retirement, I balked. Why legacy? Here’s what I didn’t know—I’d already done it. And I want to tell you...
by Sabrina Roblin | Jul 26, 2017 | Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Retirement
By Sabrina Roblin One of the best medicine’s for health and well-being especially in the 50’s and beyond is exercise. Its benefits have been widely documented. Not only does exercise improve joint mobility and increase physical strength and energy, it can improve...
by Caroline Hall | Jul 19, 2017 | Embrace Your Dream, Eudaemonia, Next Life Chapter
By Caroline Hall Learning for its own sake (unfettered by talent) In last week’s blog post, Michael McNeill wrote about the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain workshop we took together—and how it helped us discover a new way of looking at the world. I’ve had a few...
by Life Reinspired | Jul 12, 2017 | Embrace Your Dream, Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter
By Michael Karr McNeill Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain OK, so my wife and I are not planning to move to France and sketch the River Siene while admiring passers-by vie for our output. That said, Caroline has wanted to take a “Drawing from the Right Side of the...
by Katherine Olivetti | Jul 5, 2017 | Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Resistance
By Katherine Olivetti One of the wonders of being alive today is brain research. Many ideas that we have intuitively believed to be true are now being documented with hard scientific facts. It is well known that receiving social support is associated with reduced...
by Sabrina Roblin | Jun 28, 2017 | Eudaemonia, Life Reinspired, Resistance
By Sabrina Roblin One of the biggest obstacles to change of any kind is fear. Any transition, especially one as big as letting go of a long time career for what we traditionally call retirement, can ignite a lot of fear. When fear gets the best of us at this stage...
by Caroline Hall | Jun 23, 2017 | Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Retirement
By Caroline MacNeill Hall I went to the touring show matinee “A Night with Janis Joplin” last Saturday. The show was celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Summer of Love in San Francisco that launched the hippie movement in 1967. The whole audience was 16-28 then...
by Katherine Olivetti | Jun 15, 2017 | Embrace Your Dream, Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter
By Katherine Olivetti In thinking about creating the next chapter of your life, one of the essential tasks is reviving the imagination. For many folks adult life hasn’t been conducive to that task. Assignments, routine protocols, supervising staffs, executing...
by Sabrina Roblin | May 31, 2017 | Embrace Your Dream, Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Resistance
By Sabrina Roblin When we hit transition points in life, especially big ones like retiring from a career, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and stuck, trying to figure out what’s next. A number of different things can keep us from moving forward – we’re at a loss as...
by Katherine Olivetti | May 24, 2017 | Embrace Your Dream, Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Retirement
By Katherine Olivetti Last month I traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a film festival, “Movies and Meaning”. I had never attended this particular festival before and found the selection of films especially interesting. We previewed a documentary that is...
