Everybody needs to be treated to something special now and then. And nobody more so than we 40-something women. We’re working hard, taking care of our families . . . and discovering new aspects of ourselves with each passing day.

In a very real sense, even with all the responsibilities that we tackle everyday, our lives are blessed. But it’s no secret, though, that every now and then the entire process can be overwhelming. It seems that when one aspect of our lives starts to unravel everything else does as well. It’s like that thread in your favorite suit. Before you know it there’s not much of the suit left!

That’s when it’s time to take a giant step back and s-l-o-w d-o-w-n! Actually it’s time to give yourself the best gift of all: the present moment! Here are seven presents to yourself to keep yourself firmly planted in the present moment – and enjoying it – for as long as possible.

1. Let go of a long-standing grudge. Don’t ruin your “right here” good feelings by reliving an incident that didn’t turn out the way you would have liked it. Sit yourself down and write a letter to the person explaining that you’re no longer holding a grudge. Tell her the past is the past! Now, if you don’t want to send it, don’t. Merely tuck it away someone. Just letting go of those feelings make a tremendous difference in your attitude.
2. Take a walk in nature today. Go ahead, enjoy the sun, the wind, even a light shower if you’d like. If it has just recently rain, don’t forget to jump into every puddle you find along your way. Revel not only in nature, but in the thought of being as free as a child in your delight of everything around you. When you return to work or home, notice how much more light hearted you are!
3. Make a list of your strengths. Do it right now, yes. After all there’s no time like the present! Every time you feel as if you’re not living up to your potential or you feel as if nothing is going right in your life, study your list. Don’t tell me you can’t think of any strengths to list. If you hit a roadblock listing them, consult a close, trusted friend. She’ll let you know what your strengths are. Then list hers for her. Have your friend perform this activity as well.
4. Tell yourself – and actually believe it! – that you can when a new project deadline is dropped on your lap. That is the first – and most important step – to success: believing in your own talents and abilities. The next step? Actually using them! Yeah, it really is that simply!
5. Believe that dreams come true! Because they really do. And when we reach our 40s that’s when many of our old dreams resurface. Don’t let them die the second time around. In fact, right now, right this instant, name one dream you’ve always had but never acted on. It doesn’t even have to be a big dream. Now believe you can accomplish this dream. And begin to take steps today to make it happen. Don’t stop visualizing it and working toward it until it really does materialize for you.
6. Cross one item off your to-do list today! Give yourself a short break!
7. Buy pizza tonight or supper, serve it on paper plates and then spend the time you have spent cooking and doing dishes in the bathtub luxuriating in a long, hot glorious bath.

After all there’s no better present than the present! At 40-something, every one of us deserves it!
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No, not that White House.

The one in Anaheim, California.

Yes, if you, or someone you know is a Long Beach-area kid (Los Angeles and Orange Counties included), and fit into one of three categories: 1st-2nd grader, 3rd-4th grader, or 5th-6th grader, you can enter to win $500, your mother could be declared “Mother of the Year,” and you could win her a dinner-for-two at the Anaheim White House Restaurant.

You are invited to submit 250-words-or-less essays on the topic “Why My Mom Should be Mother of the Year.”

Details are at Justin Rudd’s website:

Your mother just can’t do it ALL! She should know about administering her blog. And she does know a lot more about it than some, but today, she was poking around in the Wordpress blog interface, curious about the ‘Import’ feature on the Dashboard, and decided to try importing an RSS feed into it.

When she found a .XML file within her ‘Application Data’ folder within her ‘FeedReader’ folder that said ‘feeds.xml’, she decided to experiment with it and import that into her blog. OOOPS!!

The little Firefox ‘loading’ icon kept whirring around, and it was maybe about a minute into this process when she decided she’d better abort the mission. Guess what happened?

357 posts were made in this blog, and they were from all the presets in FeedReader from ‘Moreover’, and had nothing to do with the empowerment of women, or anything your mother particularly wants to have show up in this blog, so she went into her phpMyAdmin to have a look at the damage she had done with this little experiment, and found all the posts there, and decided to try to get rid of them.

Well, long story short, your mother doesn’t know enough about database administration to do anything that sophisticated, and she ended up deleting all the posts within this blog. DUUUHHH!!

So this is the first “post-post” she’s submitting, and she’s just going to have to start all over again. Oh well, it had only just begun anyway, and your mother has a lot of obligations because she’s signed up for every affiliate program under the sun, and these advertisers would like to see links to their products here, and of course, her readers want to find informative articles too…

Mother’s going to have to step back and re-assess everything about what this blog is supposed to be. Please feel free to comment about what you’d like to see here. She could use all the help she can get. You may need to log in to comment. Don’t worry about anyone here using your email address to send SPAM. That’s not going to happen. If you’d like to be updated on whjat’s happening here, Mother is working on her newsletter and mailing list, and once that’s up and running, she’ll be sending out a weekly email to anyone who wishes to get updates.

She has just too much to do, and we’re doing our best to help her out, but we don’t really have much of a handle on everything either.