Sharing your stories is both “healing” for you and a way to pass on your “wisdom” to others.

Sometimes people say they don’t want to look back at their past, because they are ashamed of all the mistakes they made, but actually it is possible to release ourselves from the “tyranny of the past,” if we realize that we are no longer that “self” who made those mistakes.

To many older people, the idea of “slowing down” is anathema, but people who choose to “sage” (or to “consciously age”) can take advantage of this new mindset to spend more time exploring who they are and who they may want to become in this new life stage.

Are you starting to question the idea that a life well-lived is a “productive” life? Are you thinking you might want to spend your time differently than you did when you were middle-aged and always busy?

Do you ever say that you don’t feel “old”? Have you ever stopped to think about what you actually mean when you say this?

Have you ever heard or used the phrase “That’s just the way it is” to express resignation about what it means to age? Have you ever questioned it?