One Senior Source : November 2014

Friday, November 7, 2014

So Valuable Yet So Inexpensive

When I talk to my kids about lessons learned, I always mention that lessons they learn at this point in life are always pretty cheap. For example, learning a lesson now about personal responsibility, when they're eight and 10, is going to be a lot less expensive than a lesson learned about personal responsibility, at age 30. A lesson learned now for them may cost them the loss of the privilege, or a toy or worst-case scenario even a grounding.

A lesson learned at age 30, could cost them a lot more.

The point is that education is a very valuable commodity and in the case of One Senior Source, it's free. We freely give of the information that it has taken us many years and many hours of intense work to accumulate. We do that because we know that it's needed. So we do it every day online and Saturdays and Sundays on the radio.

Listen Saturday at 10:05 AM or Sunday at 10:05 AM on 860 a.m. Utah's Big Talker. If you're out of the area, you can listen online. And we encourage you to do that.

Because there's nothing so expensive as turning down a free education.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Two Things Everyone Should Know about Leaving a Legacy

When we recorded the radio show today, we talked with Karen Lindsay, a life coach. And Karen for the last two times we've spoken with her has been talking about the family legacy that we leave after we've gone on. I found it fascinating to hear her talk about some of the experiences she had based on what was left for her by her mother and grandmother.

I was also a little sad thinking about the fact that my mom didn't really leave intentionally anything for us. It wasn't that there were things that mom kept and treasured, because it's appears mom kept pretty much everything, but what Karen talked about was that to leave a legacy, a true legacy, it's important that the memories associated with the items are also shared.

Because mom passed suddenly neither she nor we got a chance to get those memories. I know there were a lot of things mom That she wanted us to have, each of us specifically to have certain items. But because of the nature of a how all this happened, none of us got that opportunity.

I guess the point of this is that we need to think about those things and share them as we go along because we just never know. My mom is the second person close to me who died without being able to tell me some things I know they both wanted to tell me. I'm not someone who pines over those kind of things, because I prefer to think of the good things that did happen, but it would have been nice for mom's sake and ours to get the memories that went along with the stuff. Because without the memories, it's just stuff.

The other point I want to get across is that is today's show is a really good show. I encourage everyone to listen. You can find it, no matter where you are in the country, by going two 860 a.m. Utah's Big Talker on the web and listening online through an apple or through 860s website.

I know you'll find today show to be worth the effort it takes to listen.