Memorial Weekend greetings … we’re hoping May showers will bring June flowers – and that your Medicare insurance works like a reliable umbrella. ☔😊.
Questions about Medigap Supplement Insurance, Medicare Advantage Plans, or why Miti is smiling? (She graduated Wednesday🎓✨!) Email Gray@TheBig65.com or book a time on my calendar. We’re here to help.
Many of you know we’ve been hosting a Malagasy exchange student for the calendar year. Having a young’un in the house keeps us young and keeps stretching our brains.
Of course that means I have to continue to adapt to an ever changing landscape and that, my friends, is the secret to aging well.
I just finished listening to Liz Tran’s book, AQ: A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That’s Always Changing.
(And a special 📣 shout out to Dave for using AI 🙌 to add a Wolverine to the family team🤣! He’s a world class dog trainer; good luck training a virtual badger!)
We know IQ measures intelligence and that EQ measures emotional intelligence. Liz Tran wants you to measure and strengthen your AQ, your Agility Quotient.
Miti, made it through the emotional drama of high school, played soccer and cross country for the first time, (had a phone and a computer for the first time), learned a third language, left her country for an entire year, and was awarded the “Outstanding Multilingual Learning Award.” Plus, she had to live with the crazy Bruns-Kyler family.
Oh…and did I mention she is an orphan from one of the poorest countries in the world?
If that ain’t agility, I don’t know what is.
Mental agility isn’t just for kids.
With change accelerating, the ability to pivot, to let go, to reframe, to change our mind, well, these may be the most important skills we carry into retirement – and into life.
Mental agility is the secret to happiness.
Miti’s graduation ceremony at Red Rocks was touch and go (because of rain and lightning). We had to go with the flow.
Building AQ does not mean we never get confused, annoyed, or surprised.
It means we pause, adjust, ask good questions, and take the next right step🌸. It means we don’t give up, we adapt.
What we saw at graduation were students who genuinely loved their teachers, teachers who cried with joy at the success of their students, and varsity athletes helping others in the great circle of life.
You can see it in the eyes of this young’un: will I ever be this old, yikes!
My dear friend Rose is a therapist at the Veterans Administration and she shared this:
Sometimes the smartest move is not to push straight through the turbulence. Pilots may climb above it, drop below it, or change course — and still arrive at about the same time. ✈️🌤️ Why stay in a turbulent situation if you don’t have to?
So when something gets in your way this morning, when something or someone pisses you off, when every one of your senses screams 🤯 out at the absurdity of this world on fire🔥…
Take a moment and breathe, take sip of your coffee, look up at the sun, remember you’re not dead yet, and step to the side of your anger, and go help someone in greater need.
Let us know how you are staying agile and raise a glass 🥂for Miti 🎓and her amazing AQ!
Keep asking, “What’s the next big thing?”
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