Archive for October, 2007

Does Life Make You Breathless?

Do you sometimes feel like you’re running an unwinnable race, or a very long race?  You zip through life so fast that you can’t catch your breath?  There’s so much to do and so little time to get it all done!

But I’m not talking about that kind of breathless.

I’m talking about the slow kind of breathless.  Living moments so delicious, so beautiful, so rich and precious that your heart almost stops in delight as you suck in your breath in joy and savor the moment.

Today, as the Red Hot Mama (or Papa) you are, remember to look for those moments that make you breathless with joy.  Allow them to sneak up and surprise you!  Welcome them with an open heart.  Create them.  Tuck them away in your memory bank.

And have a beautiful, breathless Red Hot day!

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I’m in Love…

I’m in love with a sentence.

Does that ever happen to you?  You’re skimming along in an article and suddenly a sentence stops you and your heart skips a beat.  You read it again, slowly.  You savor it.  And you fall in love with the unseen writer who captured so much magic in just a few words.

The article was about John Coltrane, one of my favorite jazz musicians.

Malcolm Jones describes Coltrane as “…the creator of music so radical it still sounds like it was written tomorrow.”

Ahh.

I want to sink into those words.  To marinate to my bones in them.

I want to live that way – so fresh and at my Red Hot best today that my life sounds like it was written tomorrow.

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Rockies Fever!

They’re not getting much work done in Denver these days! According to my son, the whole city has Rockies Fever.

We’ve been Red Sox fans since Cameron’s college days at Boston University. There’s something magical about watching the Red Sox play at Fenway Park.

But talk about the magic this year in baseball and it’s the Rockies who come to mind. Don’t you just love it when the underdog suddenly goes from mediocre to showing their Red Hot brilliance?!!

Cameron was floating when I talked to him, he was so excited to have scored tickets to all 3 home games in Coors Stadium. And he changed his flight home from a conference today because he didn’t want to be in the air during game time and miss the first game of the World Series.

Go, Rockies! Keep up the magic and tie the record for the longest winning streak in postseason play!

This Red Hot Mama has Rockies Fever, too!

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Looking Young, Looking Hot!

I read recently (from the RealSelf site) “No one ever says they want to look younger. They just say they want to look their best.”

What? I disagree! Most people I know over 35 or 40, women and men, want to look younger. For many of us it start around 30 and looking in the mirror for any hints of crows feet. Anti-aging is big business!

Well, after years of age, stress, and living in the sunshine state creeping into my face and lots of lotions and potions and cremes, I’ve found something that really makes a difference - fast! Just this week a beauty salon owner told me I looked 10 years younger than a 49 year old. Wowee!

Forget incisions, side effects, bruising, recovery periods, injections, abrasions, chemical peels (are you feeling the pain yet?) and expensive!

This little gadget is easy, takes about 10 minutes a treatment, feels good, and you see the results in about 10 minutes! And the benefits are cumulative.

Here’s what it’s done for me in just 6 weeks (with two treatments most weeks, occasionally three):

  • The pruny wrinkles around my mouth are vanishing!
  • The age spot and thickened spot on my left cheek are disappearing.
  • The bags under my eyes were gone after one treatment
  • The dark circles under my eyes, that I’ve had for years, are lighter and smaller
  • My skin is brighter and glowing, not dull & discolored
  • My skin is also more plumped up, smoother, softer and younger looking
  • Those horrid “I would never leave home without a turtleneck except it accentuates my jowls” neck wrinkles are smoothing out. (Of course, I’m ready for them to vanish overnight, but it’s not quite magic!)
  • The jowls are firming up. (Imagine a bloodhound getting a facelift!)
  • My eyelids - well, they’re smoother, most of the crepiness is gone and that extra gravity-induced fold is gone - lifted!
  • The hand I’ve been testing it on is smoother and less wrinkled.

I did a demo on a gal at a workshop recently. After doing half her face (less than 10 minutes) with the galvanic spa II she was excited and grinning because her eyes looked so much better. She demanded that I let her do the other half. The next morning she was grinning from ear to ear with excitement because it looked even better! She had spent between $800 and $1000 on eye cremes this year without much improvement, so she’s thrilled!

I’ll be posting photos soon, but if you don’t want to wait send me an email and I’ll send you what I’ve got. Or better yet, we can arrange a time to talk.

Oh, here’s what it looks like.

And I’d love to know what you think.  Do you want to look younger?

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The Secret to Cultivating Joy

This is so easy and so cool!

Yesterday I was surprised to see delicious things I’d never noticed before as I walked back from the beach on the same old street.

I had been looking for and naming abundances: sand, water, ozone (the invigorating beach kind) and fresh air, birds, smiles, beach lilies, getting up close to a little rabbit holding breakfast grass in its mouth. So I was feeling pretty good as I headed home.

Then I saw, really saw, things along the street I’d never seen before. Isn’t it fun to quit being oblivious and start noticing?!!

The bubbling happiness of noticing abundance stayed with me all morning.

And I realized how much this habit of gratitude has sustained me. Many times, even on the most difficult days, happiness would bubble up inside me at unexpected times.

Are you ever surprised by moments of Joy like that? Just walking across the room or out to get the paper and suddenly it’s there - Effervescent Bubbles of Joy. What I’ve discovered is that the more I am grateful and aware of the abundances in my life, the more Joy is there when I least expect it.

Like the Law of Attraction says, you get more of what you focus on. But the bonus is, it’s there to sustain you when you aren’t even focusing on it!

You can change your life with this simple technique. Get a little journal and start recording all the abundances you are blessed with every day. Really notice it, even tiny little things you’ve been taking for granted, like time on the parking meter, finding a penny (that’s found money!), a friend treating you to coffee, etc. Feel it in every cell of your body.

As you focus on the abundance in your life, you will uncork the champagne of your life and bubbles of joy will effervesce through all of your life.

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Tim needs some Red Hot Mama advice

I love Click & Clack (Tom and Ray, the Car Talk brothers) and read their column regularly or tune in to their show on NPR. Some of the questions they get are really funny, and their responses can be Red Hot.

But the question this week left me shaking my head. It started off:
“I am in the market for a newer car. My girlfriend says I am too mature (I’m 61) for my ’96 Miata, and I should be driving something in my maturity range, if not in my price range…”

Maturity range? Yikes! 61 is young and just getting started!

Tim, Tim, Tim, keep the Miata and swap the girlfriend for a Red Hot Mama who’s happy to ride in or drive a Miata regardless of age! There are lots of us who LOVE men who think young and drive what they want!

Quit worrying about what people think and drive happily into as many sunsets as you can with a girlfriend who thinks younger and is more fun!

I believe you’re never too old to drive what makes you happy! What does age have to do with it anyway?
What Red Hot Mama advice would you give Tim? Just click the comment button below and leave your comment…

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Taking Up Dancing!

I talked with my friend Gwen a couple of days ago. We’ve been taking belly dancing classes together, but she couldn’t come to the last class because she’s getting ready for a ballroom dance competition.

She confessed she was a little apprehensive about the dance competition. She’s never done a solo dance like this before. Gwen is a charming petite blond with beautiful blue eyes who kisses waiters’ hand and tells them how wonderful they are. I imagine she’ll be just as charming on the dance floor!

Gwen recently read about a book that asked what you’d do if you had one year to live. She decided she wanted to ballroom dance, and for a lot more than just one year! She said,

“Life is about stretching from where you are to where you want to go.”

She also commented:

“Life gets changed around a lot, doesn’t it?”

I guess she knows! In the last few years she moved across the state when her home was damaged in a hurricane, started a new life here, just moved into her new home, is taking dance classes and performing, and just started going out with a new “friend”.

80 and Dancing!

Way to go, Gwen! You are one Red Hot Mama!

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to travel Route 66?

This is on my list of 101 Goals, so when I heard my friend Pat Behnke
was taking the trip this summer, I had to interview her for my podcast,
Off The Beaten Path.

And so I invite you to travel along with baby boomers Patricia Behnke
and Joy Glanzer as they share their thoughts and experiences of their
trip this summer. They’ll fill you in on:

· the highlights along the way
· Joy’s special send-off for her father (This gives an added dimension to a multi-generational trip!)
· traveling with their daughters
· why you might want to plan your next trip (They’re thinking A1A from Florida to Maine and then Africa.)
· their magic, life changing experiences
· and more

As Joy says:

“Everybody needs to do this. You just need to take off and get away from your life for awhile.”

When you do, magic happens!

So join us for a half hour of magic.
And then start planning your next trip to
wherever your heart calls you. I know I’m adding
Route 66 to my list of 101 Goals (and The Amazon, Tuscany, rafting through the Grand Canyon, hang gliding in the Outer Banks…)

Where do you want to go? Leave a comment below.

There’s more! You can read Pat’s
preparation for and synopsis of their trip at

http://www.seniortimesmagazine.com/travel/238
and

http://www.seniortimesmagazine.com/from-the-editor/276
or follow their
journey in more detail on Pat’s blog at

http://writesuccess.blogspot.com
/

For more Off The Beaten Path podcasts, visit BoomerYak.com

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