by Mary Radu | Apr 24, 2018 | Meaningful Living
There ought to be a banner in the arrivals hall at Havana airport that reads ‘Abandon preconceptions, all ye who enter here’. ~ Lonely Planet Our plans to go to Cuba were made before Hurricane Irma and her 160-mile per hour winds pummeled a two-hundred-mile...
by Mary Radu | Mar 3, 2018 | Meaningful Living
So often we go about our lives, barely noticing how time flies by and what the past years and months have meant to us. Recently I was asked to be interviewed for a short article about “me” for the Life Planning Network newsletter. It allowed me to reflect on some of...
by Mary Radu | Aug 29, 2016 | Work Reimagined
Sit back and watch this video to learn more ….. Work changes that are experienced when approaching the later stages of career and potential retirement can feel staggering. Some face changes triggered by downsizing. Others yearn to be more meaningfully engaged,...
by Mary Radu | Mar 15, 2016 | Meaningful Living
President Obama’s Past Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, was quoted as saying “never waste the opportunity that a crisis brings to the table.” Leaders during earlier world crises challenged us to come together with strength and conviction to lift ourselves up along with...
by Mary Radu | Dec 6, 2015 | Meaningful Living
This year’s Northern California Wine Country grape and fruit harvest has been amazingly abundant. From Spring through Fall, when the cold sets in, it’s a juggling act: coaching practice, volunteer activities as well as putting on my “Farmer Hat” growing and harvesting...
by Mary Radu | Oct 8, 2015 | Work Reimagined
A new definition of work is emerging that goes beyond financial rewards in the workplace. I’d like to share some ideas with you meant to shift your beliefs about work and open up opportunities for greater fulfillment and meaning in your life. During the lead-up to...
by Mary Radu | Sep 9, 2015 | It’s All About Perspective
Who would have thought that Jamie Lee Curtis, the funny and sexy actress in the movie A Fish Called Wanda would be handing out clues for how to live a meaningful life. During a recent airplane flight I picked up an article about Jamie that got me thinking about how to...
by Mary Radu | Jun 15, 2015 | Work Reimagined
A New Start in the Second Half of Life First published in LPN-Q: the Quarterly Journal of The Life Planning Network In 2009, my husband and I moved from our previous home in Northern California to a new community about an hour away. We had chosen it as our home base...
by Mary Radu | Jul 9, 2013 | Practical Longevity Planning
What’s your Plan B? Beth is a single woman living alone. Entering her home one night she tripped over her cat, leaving her with a torn hamstring that was both painful and limited her mobility. She was told by her doctor that this injury would fully heal, however...
by Mary Radu | May 9, 2013 | It’s All About Perspective
Do you sometimes find yourself sleepless at night with thoughts about a concern churning through your head, keeping you awake and leaving you without energy to face the next day? Or maybe there is a challenging task that you procrastinate on completing, leaving your...
by Mary Radu | Mar 27, 2013 | Practical Longevity Planning
What do LIFE PLANNING, WORK, CAREGIVING and LIVING on PURPOSE have to do with YOU? Recently I had the privilege of being interviewed by Dr. Zara Larsen, host of Tucson’s live FM talk radio show “Circles of Change”. Along with five other members of the Life Planning...
by Mary Radu | Jun 29, 2012 | Articles
As professionals who work with older adults, many of your clients are going to be baby boomers. They’re going to seek your help in making the transition from the “building and doing” stage of life into the next stage of adulthood. These clients are facing identity...
by Mary Radu | Jun 29, 2012 | Articles
Which of these two questions do you find yourself asking? What do I want to do? What will give my life meaning? If you’re in the middle of your life journey, you’re likely to be shifting away from “doing” and focusing on a more complex search for the meaning inherent...
by Mary Radu | Jun 29, 2012 | Articles
The one thing in life we can all count on is change. Some changes come about because of unexpected life circumstances that we’d rather not be going through, like a job layoff or an unexpected health limitation. Other changes may be welcome and happen through...
by Mary Radu | Jun 29, 2012 | Articles
Have you noticed that opportunities show up daily to say “yes” to having more meaning in your life? Over a lunch with a past client and friend we talked about how chance meetings and life circumstances can sometimes result in making a difference in someone else’s life...
by Mary Radu | Jun 29, 2012 | Articles
The last several years have been filled with huge upheavals in the world. The stock market and resulting economic impacts on savings accounts and jobs, talks of recession and depression, the rash of terrorism in the East with headlines about what may be in store for...
by Mary Radu | Jun 29, 2012 | Articles
Do you ever wonder how you fit into the bigger movement of change that the world so greatly needs? My colleague, Dorene Mahoney, of StepWell Coaching, has agreed for me to share some ideas, taken from one of her articles on the topic of change. Read on to see what it...
by Mary Radu | Jun 29, 2012 | Articles
Click here to play an audio of Mary reading this article: “When I don’t know how to take a next biz step…I revert to my safety of what I’m good at,” a colleague, whom I greatly respect, recently lamented. She had just attended a...
by Mary Radu | Oct 17, 2011 | Practical Longevity Planning
Mary Radu, MS, MSW, CPCC, Certified Professional Coach and Philanthropy Consultant Invites you to listen to a podcast of the Commonwealth Club of California! What do I want to accomplish? Where do I want to go from here? How can I intentionally share my resources...
by Mary Radu | Oct 13, 2011 | Practical Longevity Planning
Mary Radu, MS, MSW, CPCC, Certified Professional Coach and Philanthropy Consultant Invites you to listen to a podcast of the Commonwealth Club of California! Have you considered how you’ll be living the remainder of your lifetime? We are all part of an aging nation...
