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We should never ask the question "Am I too Old to Become Creative? Is it too late for me?" Yet we need an inspiring older person to show us the way to a long and productive life. For me, it is Grandma Moses and her creativity which burst forth when she was 78 years old. At her death at the age of 101, she left 1500 paintings in galleries and museums and private collections. And a lesson of how to cherish our own life experiences.

Writing your inner world of feelings and thoughts can actually shape your outer life! Take Mary Baker Eddy who was so miserable she became immobile for half her life. After a session with a gifted healer, she opened up and began to express her inner life in a journal. The journal became one of the most famous books in the world.

Did you ever feel you are leading a life you did not plan? That is what happens to many of us. It’s got us on a plane headed for a particular DESTINATION. But it lands us in another DESTINY! Becoming grateful for what we have been given takes years of personal development. Learning how to become content with what we have been given is a spiritual practice.

Time flies so fast especially when we are happy. We also notice as we age that life itself slips away more quickly. Can we do anything about it? We certainly can. There are proven ways to slow time down. Here is one. Recall something very special that happened in your life that passed away too quickly. Now in writing, let your memories and feelings and thoughts about it flow. What you will be doing is to experience the meaning and insights that slipped away from you. Through writing you will reclaim your fleeting life!

We all know happiness does not last. But feeling gratitude for the happiness that passed does last. Feeling gratitude and expressing it takes practice.

Even if you weren't able to appreciate a relative/s before they passed,, writing about them from your heart and memories can bring them to life . I give an example of my blind and disabled grandmother and adoring grandfather. I urge readers to write their own story that will honor their loved ones who have passed.

One woman, who had faced a nervous collapse to such an extent that she was bedridden and miserable, made such extraordinary changes in her life that she is on the list of Smithsonian Magazine’s “100 Most Significant Americans of All Time.” What did she do? She discovered power of soul and mind,

Unlike Elizabeth Kubler Ross, who claimed that denial was the first stage of grief, I began to make order in my painful chaos by writing a chronology about the months that proceeded my brother's death by suicide. Writing that little chronology as a fresh survivor of suicide loss was my initial way to search for hidden clues that I might have missed, hints that maybe his destiny was glinting…. before it hit me like a bolt of lightning.