by Marie Burns | Apr 28, 2025 | Widow
Although I am not familiar with Christine Caine, an author and speaker focused on empowering women globally, I recently encountered a quote of hers that resonated with me deeply: “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried. But you’ve actually...
by Marie Burns | Apr 10, 2025 | Financially Organized
Does your stuff – and the things around you – represent who you are today, or who you were in the past? This is one of several thought-provoking questions in my friend Kim Kubsch’s new book, Joy of Downsizing. Kim Kubsch on Decluttering Kim is what I would describe as...
by Marie Burns | Mar 28, 2025 | Financial Wellness, Mindset
I just finished, and thoroughly enjoyed, a class called Next Chapter which was based on Harvard’s research on happiness. Researcher Dr. Robert Waldinger also wrote a book about this decades long study called The Good Life and has a popular TED Talk that summarizes his...
by Marie Burns | Mar 5, 2025 | Financially Organized, Mindset
Jokingly, we have all heard, and then chuckled, the phrase, “Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?” We call that procrastination. Wikipedia’s definition of procrastination is the act of unnecessarily postponing something despite knowing that there could be...
by Marie Burns | Feb 6, 2025 | Financially Organized
I love New Year’s Resolution time of year not because of the goal setting but because it gets us thinking about the results we seek. Once you know your desired outcome, your best success is focusing on the small, actionable steps that ultimately lead to your desired...
by Marie Burns | Jan 23, 2025 | Retirees
I actually heard a woman say this on a podcast I was listening to. “If I’m not working, am I really worth anything?” My reaction? Out loud, I immediately said, “Oh dear!” Without even thinking, it just came out of my mouth. I still pray...
by Marie Burns | Dec 30, 2024 | Mindset
Don’t look now, but the year is about to end, and we will be in New Year’s Resolution time again before you know it. That means it will be time to pull out your Bucket List, Goal List, etc., to review and revamp…again. Have you ever felt like your Bucket List is on...
by Marie Burns | Dec 12, 2024 | Suddenly Single, Widow
I need to get better at writing down the sources of my favorite phrases and sayings (I have a notebook for those). Recently, I read (and did not write down the source) that being socially isolated or spending too much time alone can be just as unhealthy as smoking,...
by Marie Burns | Nov 21, 2024 | Retirees
We may spend up to a third of our life in retirement. It’s been said that we are currently in a retirement tsunami (10,000 baby boomers retiring each day for the next 10-15 years). And realistically, we all eventually realize that there are the Go-Go years, the...
by Marie Burns | Nov 6, 2024 | Estate Planning, Mindset
Role reversal, whether it is as a parent/child or even grandparent/grandchild, never quite feels right. Becoming the “let me help you” person in the relationship is not how it likely went for most of your life. But with aging, that sometimes changes or needs to change...
by Marie Burns | Oct 24, 2024 | Estate Planning
When staying in a hotel/motel, when did we transition from having an actual person call your room in the morning as your courtesy wake-up call to now having a computerized message on the other end of the line? Of course, with our over-the-top bells and whistles now...
by Marie Burns | Oct 9, 2024 | Financial Wellness, Financially Organized
Have you ever felt guilty or frustrated with your lack of comfort with money? Or wish you felt more knowledgeable or confident when making financial decisions? Or wondered why your money personality is so different than that of your siblings, even though you grew up...
