Choices

Three Things You Must Have In Retirement

Martha Nelson | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Lifestyle, Baby Boomers Retirement, Budget, Finances, Retirement, Choices, Slideexpand, Aging in Place, Parenting post50, Senior Health, Health and Aging, Health Post50, Health After 50, Fifty News

Underlying our retirement search is the golden trinity we have to consider: our health, our desired lifestyle, and our budget. This trio is symbiotic and if one goes awry, it becomes a poison pill for the other two.

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Grandparents Going Hungry

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Hunger, Snap, Csfp, Retirement, Choices, Food Insecurity, Feeding America, Older Americans Month, Grandparents, Seniors, Fixed Income, Impact News

If a society is judged by the way it treats the most vulnerable among them, we may be headed for a failing grade. Just consider these disturbing statistics when it comes to senior hunger.

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Letting Life Flow 'Down Under'

Ree Varcoe | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: New Zealand, Fearless Living, Emotional Wellness, Choices, Nature, Fearlessness, Nonprofits, Fresh Starts, Simplicity, Becoming Fearless, New Beginnings, Becoming-Fearless, Healthy Living News

When I finally let go and gave in to the universe, I started appreciating the little things that make a place far from home seem special.

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Does a Good Quality of Life Mean Money?

Daylle Deanna Schwartz | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Inner Contentment, Can Money Buy Happiness, Choices, Happiness, Quality of Life, Healthy Living News

What do you consider a good quality of life? For me, it's living in a place I love, being healthy, having good friends, loving what I do for a living, paying my bills and having enough money for what I want -- and I don't need a lot.

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The Real, Real Reason Women Are Staying Single

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Dominique Browning, Commitmentphobia, " Quarterlife, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Choices, Having It All, Melanie Kurtin, Eric Kinenberg, "Emerging Adulthood, Too Many Choices, Settling, " Being Single, The Atlantic, " "Going Solo, New York Times, Trade-Offs, "All the Single Ladies, Kate Bolick, Women News

When we're told that we can have it all, that everything is on the table, why would we ever commit to anything? Even if we know we love the thing to which we're committing, we can't help but wonder about all the things we didn't choose.

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The Marriage and Motherhood Myths

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Workforce, Success, Marriage, Childfree, Infertility, Carrie Bradshaw, The Beauty Myth, Choices, Having It All, Naomi Wolf, Fertility, Egg Freezing, Kim Kardashian, Women News

I'm not saying that we don't -- or shouldn't -- want love and marriage and a baby carriage. But if we don't, the cultural forces at work sure do their best to change our minds.

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The Real Reason Decisions Are So Hard To Make

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Life Decisions, Trade-Offs, Grief, Choices, How to Make Decisions, Decision Making, Women-and-Decision-Making, Women News

The -cide in "decide", after all, is the same -cide you'll find in words like homicide, suicide ... A decision is, when you think about it, the death of a choice.

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Self, How Did I Get Here?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Decisions, Approval, Expectations, Apple, Living-Authentically, Choices, Follow Your Passion, Failure, Trade-Offs, Stanford University, Being Judged, Tyranny of the Shoulds, Women News

With each choice we make, our life picks up a little bit of steam, until, sometimes, before we know it, we find the life we're living is one that's being driven by inertia, heading off in some direction we never planned.

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Cherie Meagher: Conscious Choices and Healthy Habits

BJ Gallagher | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Breast Cancer, Healthy Living Health News, Spirit and Breast Cancer, Healthy Living Spirit, Breast Cancer and Healing, Choices, Surviving Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer and Choices, Breast Cancer and Girlfriends, Healthy Living News

When Cherie Meagher got the cancer diagnosis six months ago, it was "like a bomb hit my body, and a bomb hit my world ... when the 'Big C' shows up, it can turn your life upside down."

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4 Steps To Get Unstuck

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress, Elisha Goldstein, Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, Pema Chodron, Choices, Mental Health, Self Help, Healthy Living News

In order to get unstuck, we need to understand that there are perceptions, judgments and opinions that occur so quickly beneath our awareness that we get stuck before we even notice any thoughts arise.

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To Lefties: How Does Obama Disappoint?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lefties, Lefty, President Obama, Plum Line, Shortcomings, Gibbs, Feedback, Choices, Choose, Disappointment, Survey, Obama, Greg Sargent, Disappoints, Barack Obama, Failures, Disappointed, Disillusioned, Disappoint, Faults, Chris Weigant, Inside the Beltway, Robert Gibbs, Left, Professional Left, Sargent, Politics News

While the major fallout from Gibbs' "the professional left" flap has died down a bit, a second round of examination seems to have begun -- one much more introspective and much less knee-jerk than the first round.

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Addiction: Fruit Flies Create AA Group!

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Intoxication, Fruit Flies, Reason, Addiction & Recovery, Health, Free Will, Choices, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholic, Aa, Alcohol Addiction, Wellness, Habit, Healthy Living News

Like humans, fruit flies that get intoxicated on alcohol can become addicted and keep drinking regardless of the consequences. indicate this phenomenon will allow us to better understand how alcoholism works.

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Environmental Psychology: the Choice Is Yours

Susan Cosier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Psychology, Choices, Green News

If you choose to compost your food scraps, bring a reusable bag to the grocery store, or bike to work, your friends may have psyched you into it.

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Discipline (Obama, Part IV)

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Discipline, Obama Administration, Choices, Healthy Living News

Our culture doesn't do much to encourage us to respect discipline, much less practice it. We grow up believing it to be the enemy of creativity and an obstruction to our imagined freedoms.

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The Moment is Now

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Emotions, Trauma, General Motors, Jewish, Choices, Architecture, Healing, Reticence, Now, Michael Moore, Artistic Output, Fashion, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

My life has been one sacrifice after another. It would have been simpler to lower my ideals, to set my sights on something easier, more mainstream. I couldn't do that.

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Partnering with God in Tough Times

John Morton | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Challenges, God, Trust, Spiritual Journey, Economic Crisis, Choices, Spiritual, Financial Crisis, Spiritual Path, Making Choices, Spirituality, Spiritual Practice, Joy, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Some years ago, I chose to take a vow of poverty and focus my life on being of service. I gave up my material concerns as I had known them. I no longer owned anything.

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Too Many Choices: How To Be Satisfied With Your Decisions

Psychology Today | Kirsten Vala | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Career Advice, Career Choices, Choices, Healthy Living News

In America, people are faced with more and more decisions every day, whether it's picking one of 31 ice cream flavors or deciding whether and when to...

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