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Welcome to the 100th episode of The Easy Aging® Show! I'm so excited to have hit this milestone: 100 episodes, nearly 15,000 downloads. It will be two years this October since this modest little podcast came into existence.

Today, I'm going to reflect on a few things and lessons learned that...

Easy Ager, are you ready to boost your midlife memory? It's actually easier than you think. Some of this information is from a Medical News Today article , and I've curated this list with a couple of new ideas and some familiar ones. The best part of all of this: you can have a better...

Today we're talking about living more creatively in midlife. You may think you're not creative, but I'm here to tell you everyone has at least one creative bone in their bodies including you, my friend.

So today I'm going to give you four steps to the creative process that will start making it a...

Bronny Ware wrote a beautiful book titled "The Top Five Regrets of the Dying." She worked in palliative care for a number of years and was with people who were dying; she spent the last three to 12 weeks of their lives with them. So when these folks were asked for their regrets or things that...

Think back for a moment: Do you remember when you were little and your mom called you in that tone? You know the tone I'm talking about. The tone that meant you were in trouble for something. Again. ;)

I heard that tone a lot when I was growing up and whenever I heard it, my first response was,...

No matter what your situation is — becoming an empty nester, retiring, getting a divorce, experiencing the death of a loved one, or becoming a caretaker for your parent — one of the big things you can guarantee in your life is change.

"The only constant in life is change." —...

For many years, I thought I was a disciplined person. I always thought, "I like discipline, but I don't like structure." That's because I thought structure made me feel trapped, like I didn't have any flexibility when it was in place. But that wasn't actually true.

The reason I didn't like...

Ah, new midlife perspective. Who doesn't need it? One of the big things about midlife is getting stuck in ruts. But it's a bit of a balancing act: what's the difference in a rut and a routine? Let's look at this a little more closely.

Routines are comforting. They create certainty in...

Are you ready to increase midlife productivity and start seeing progress on those little tasks at the bottom of your to-do list that never get done? For me, these little stragglers get ignored week after week. If I don't move "wash the car" to my priority list, it'll never happen.

The...

Are you a multitasker? I used to be. Actually, let me clarify. I still am, but I'm working to stop it. You'll understand why once you read this post.

I explain what multitasking is, why it doesn't actually exist, why it doesn't work and how it's harming you on a daily basis. But never fear,...