LIVING CHRISTMAS AND JANUARY FABULOUSLY

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MY FABULOUS CHRISTMAS AND JANUARY

At the beginning of January I chose my new Word of the Year - which was FABULOUS - and in honour of all things fabulous, I've decided to return to my old habit of looking back over the month that's finished and sharing a few snippets that shone out during those weeks. My moments of "Fabulosity" is how I'm thinking of them.

So let's get the ball rolling as I look back on Christmas and January (a little more bang for my buck seeing that I didn't do a December stocktake). In Australia it's summertime - so lots of hot weather, sunshine and blue skies.
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WHAT IS NEUROGRAPHIC ART? IT'S A GREAT CHOICE FOR THE NON ARTIST

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WHAT IS NEUROGRAPHIC ART?

I've always been convinced that I have no artistic ability whatsoever, but now that I have more time, I'm on a journey to discover whether there may be kernels of creativity hiding inside me that are just waiting for the opportunity emerge. If you follow my Cresting the Hill Facebook page, I've been sharing what I've been doing since I stumbled across Neurographic art recently. It caught my eye and my imagination because it's an art form that just flows, and it reminded me of images of brain neurones combined with pretty colours. I was itching to explore more about it....
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TEN THINGS THAT DON'T MATTER NOW I'M 60

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WHAT DOESN'T MATTER NOW I'M 60

Marc and Angel always have a lot of really straightforward, helpful advice to offer on their site and I often visited their links on Facebook while I was recovering from the fallout from my toxic job a few years ago. I don't tend to need their insights as much these days, but recently one of their articles caught my eye. It was titled 20 Things That Will Matter A Lot Less In 20 Years. 

I clicked across and several caught my eye because they were lessons I'd learnt over the last decade and they certainly matter a whole lot less now that I've reached 60. I thought I'd share my top ten today as a little victory celebration for how far I've come.
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LIVING LA DOLCE VITA IN MIDLIFE

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LIVING THE SWEET LIFE IN MIDLIFE

According to Think In Italian living "la dolce vita" means living a life full of beauty, pleasures, and mundane events. (Note the definition included "mundane events" - not leaping from one exiciting, action packed moment to the next). It translates to "living the sweet life". A similar expression is "dolce far niente" which is "the sweetness of doing nothing" - I remember coming across that term in the book/movie "Eat, Pray, Love" where the main character learns about the sweetness of slowing down and having restful moments, instead of living at a break neck pace all the time.
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STARTING MY 60'S FEELING FABULOUS

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IT'S TIME TO CHOOSE MY #WOTY

Every January I choose a Word Of The Year (#WOTY) instead of making resolutions that I never bother keeping. I love finding a word that resonates with me and motivates me for the direction I want to head in for the rest of the year. Last year I chose "Cultivate" and that inspired me to proactively grow the areas of my life that needed some attention. It was a great word and felt very "intentional". This year I felt that I wanted to choose one that was a bit more fun, and one that would give me an energy boost when I thought of it.

So, after mullling it over for several weeks, I decided to go with my heart and chose my word from a post I wrote for my 60th birthday....
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CULTIVATING A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS SEASON

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CULTIVATING A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS SEASON

My Word of the Year for 2021 was "Cultivate" and it feels good to come full circle with some tips for cultivating a joyous Christmas/New Year. This is my last post for 2021 and to be honest, I'm pretty okay with that. I'm ready to have a break and focus my attention on Christmas and family - because family is what makes Christmas even more special. 

For those of us who celebrate Christmas as a reminder of the birth of Jesus, it's a time to reflect and to be grateful, and it's also a time to celebrate and to enjoy each other's company while we eat, listen to Christmas carols, share gifts, and generally bask in some Christmas joy.

I thought today I'd share three suggestions for helping to make it a joyous Christmas season...
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WHAT DOES SLOW AND UNBUSY LIVING REALLY LOOK LIKE?

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WHAT IS SLOW / UNBUSY LIVING?

Some of my most popular posts have been about choosing to be Unbusy now that I'm in the second half of life. Retirement gave me even more opportunities to slow down the pace of how I was living each day and to be more intentional about how I use my time. I've become a huge advocate of the Slow Living and Unbusy movements, but what does it really look like in my actual day to day living?
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WHOLEHEARTED LIVING - CULTIVATING AN EXPAT LIFE IN EUROPE

One woman's story of leaving the USA to settle in Ecuador and then moving further to settle in Europe where she is buying and renovating an apartment.

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Today I have the last guest in my series on Cultivating Wholehearted Living - thriving in the second half of life. Christina is an American expat living in Europe. Today she's sharing her story about how this came about and the lessons she learned along the way. Christina has a youtube channel where she posts updates on the renovation of her lovely unit in Chiatura, Georgia and it's fascinating watching the process. 

I'll hand it over to Christina from here....
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LIVING MY BEST LIFE EVERY DAY UPDATE #4

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LIVING LIFE WITH A SMILE EVERY DAY

It's catch up time on the blog today - all that's been happening here over Spring. This is the BIG birthday edition where it's been all about a little sunshine, a little rain, a little bit of family, and a lot about my 60th birthday. There's plenty of other happenings, but these are a few of the happy moments that have popped up over the last few months in my life.

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LEARNING TO BELIEVE I'M WORTHY OF THE LIFE I HAVE NOW

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WHY DID I STRUGGLE WITH EARLY RETIREMENT? 

After I left work and started to recover my resilience, I noticed that I had an underlying sense of.....I guess it was guilt(?) about being home all day and not being part of the 9-5 daily grind of going off each day to a job. I puzzled over why I had this internal unsettledness with the idea of not earning my way anymore. Was it because it was what I had always done and had thought I would be doing for several more years to come? Part of me felt like I didn't deserve this lovely life I was living - that it was too pleasant and too easy - and there had to be a "catch"....
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