It makes me proud to be growing mellow as a contemporary of Naomi Judd. Beautiful and elegant, she bursts on the stage at the AARP WLC and then meanders among the participants sharing her wisdom. She speaks from the heart:
We feel so disenfranchised and separated today, and it makes me happy when we get together like this in community. Everything you are here talking about – union of spirit, mind and body – is in my new book, Naomi’s Guide to Aging Gratefully: Facts, Myths, and Good News for Boomers . Vitamin G – gratitude – if you practice it. Shift happens when you have a breakthrough. I’m a communicator. It’s important to figure out your story. The number one cause of unhappiness is not knowing who you are. Americans are more unhappy today despite living in the richest country in the world – we rank 23rd in happiness in the world. Start thinking about your story.
Naomi thinks that we have collective ADHD. Nobody has anytime to pay attention to her own life. We are distracted from what we are doing and why. She explains where here wake-up call came from:
If you don’t know who you are and what you stand for, you’ll fall for everything. That’s what the media wants – for us to buy their stuff. We only use 20% of what we have. I’ve had to become a detective of my life – as I saw the stories about myself in magazines and TV.
She speaks of having, “cleaned out the energy vampires in my life”. The chronicle is in her book. Her conviction on the importance of that experience compels her to say: (more…)
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