The world’s most lucrative consumers are aging, and a marketplace, already flooded with anti-aging solutions and magic potions, is finding new angles and creating new trends, for aging women.There’s a visceral reaction to women aging, whether they opt to intervene with surgery or not. It’s catch-22, you’re dammed if you do and dammed if you don’t.
Category Archives: wellbeing
Is Change Good?
We’ve all heard it at least once. Uttered by a friend or family member, encouraging us or consoling us, telling us that change is good. But is it?
What’s Behind A Name and Should You Change Yours?
Our names are like labels or captions that enable people to make quick assertions, and assumptions about us. Some names are a burden, while others are intimidating and some names are forbidden in certain countries. One could say without a doubt that names have a certain power over our lives.
The Winter of Our Discontent
Many of you are probably familiar with Steinbeck’s novel, The Winter of Our Discontent, which essentially means now we are in a period of misery. The combination of extreme heat, fires, droughts, flooding, supply chain, and transportation disruptions, plus the disproportionate price hikes of fuel and electricity means that we will be seeing a lot less food on store shelves this winter. Meanwhile the rich will keep partying and flying around in their private jets just as they did during the Corona Virus Pandemic.
How To Become An Astute Consumer
As much as shopping online has opened us up to a big wild world of endless consumer goods it has also opened up a deep dark vortex where people get sucked into a scrolling stupor. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate and have enjoyed the convenience of online shopping as much as anyone else, especially during the pandemic lockdowns. But there is a downside to all of this.
Has Social Media Become A Tool Of Social Oppression?
Online Censorship picked up momentum over the last few years, and as a result, many suddenly had something to feel offended by. Are being woke, censorship, and cancel culture intimately connected by obscure puritanical roots or is there a more sinister plot at work?
Can You Trust Your Intuition?
You have no idea how many times you’ve averted danger, simply by listening to your inner voice. When you chose to take an alternate route, leave early or later, or maybe cancel the appointment altogether because you were feeling uneasy about a situation. You might even twist an ankle or you might miss your flight, along with a variety of apparent mishaps that turn out to be blessings in disguise, so to speak.
Why Do Marriages Fall Apart In The First Five Years?
How many couples start out like they put the ‘more’ in amore, ready to pave the way together towards a rosy future, only to end up divorcing within the first five years?
Is There A More Energetic, Happier, Healthier You Waiting To Be Awakened?
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Take A Chance On Me
I’ve always lied about my age because I knew it to be an issue right from the start. I used to add 10 years, whereas now I shave them off. Once I was under-qualified, so I padded my CV and now I’m over-qualified, so I trim it down. You’re dammed if you do and you’re dammed if you don’t.
Words Have Power 