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2 months ago | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
After many years of chasing goals, mostly with successful outcomes, I’ve finally learned that it’s not just the attainment that should desired but also embracing the path, the journey. While writing 39 books, I’ve learned that discipline is important to attain goals – but the real lesson I’ve learned was to not tie the outcome to happiness.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
Sometimes we forget that friendships, like plants, need to be maintained and cultivated. Sure you can grow flowers in your garden and ignore them, but one day you might walk out and find that a lack of watering and weeding has made the plant wither away. With friendships, our maintenance is done by staying in touch and scheduling time together.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
This Thanksgiving, let’s thank heaven for caregivers. They often work in anonymity and sometimes put the recipient’s well-being ahead of their own. This might be a mistake. A caregiver is like a mother bird that is raising their young – the mother bird has to be strong and efficient for the baby birds to flourish. Research shows the value of taking time to care for yourself as well as your loved one.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
When I laid down on the rug and pretended to fall asleep I thought that might get my friend’s attention and he’d stop talking. Ok, I’m exaggerating, but not by much. Non-stop talking seems to be an epidemic these days, and we all need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves if we are one of the offenders?
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
Survivors of disasters – especially those who overcame long odds – have much to teach us in handling the challenges in our own lives. Over the past 25 years, I’ve interviewed more than 100 survivors for many of my books. I’ve seen common mindsets and techniques they used to overcome adversity. The decisions they made, and more importantly how they made decisions helped them survive life and death situations, but can apply to challenges in day to day living.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
Some people are born handy and able to fix – or make – anything, and others….well let’s just say they might do a passable job making a bird house. (I fall into the latter category.) No matter the skill level, though – working with your hands is good for you!Get off the KeyboardLots of us hold or held jobs where the only required use of our hands was on a keyboard. We worked in teams, or added a component to a project, but rarely had an assignment where we had 100% control.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
Why would anyone voluntarily forego a couple nights in a hotel for a staying at a rustic cabin with no plumbing, frequent visits by mice, occasional visits by a black bear, and no cell phone, TV or internet connections? The answer is in the latter part of that sentence: the absence of phone, TV and internet. The lack of electronics allow for a more mindful experience without man-made distractions. Call it going back to our hunter/gatherer roots where our days and nights are tied into nature.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
slj.com | Michael Tougias |Bob Hassett |Beatrice Boggs |Belle Boggs
. (True Survival Series: Bk. 2). Oct. 2024. 272p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9780316556217. COPY ISBN Gr 5 Up–On a Friday in November 1980, two commercial fishing boats were working around Georges Bank, a rich shoal about 100 miles off Cape Cod. In part due to two damaged weather buoys, none of the fishermen expected the wild storm that whipped up overnight, with 70-foot waves and winds gusting over 80 miles per hour.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
About a year after my first grandchild was born, her mother (my daughter) said, “Wow, we thought mom would be over the moon, but your involvement with little Robin really surprised us.” Oddly enough, my son had expressed a similar but more humorous observation just a month earlier: “Dad’s off his rocker over Robin!”What is it about becoming a grandfather that so moved me?
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May 26, 2024 | 
seniorplanet.org | Michael Tougias
Twenty thousand years ago a cave man threw a rock at a beehive in a tree and missed. Other male tribe members immediately threw other rocks to hit the beehive…and likely others in the tribe began to place wagers on who could hit the beehive and bring it down. Ok, I made that up. But I’m guessing the male fascination with sports started something like that, and still continues throughout our lives even now.
