The Retirement Detox Program

Are you happy?

Thanks to Scott Stratten for the link to the following flowchart by Headup at Typcut.com:

Don't forget to take time off from your relationship if you want it to thrive in retirement

Do you worry about you and your partner getting under each others' feet once you're both retired?

Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer and practitioner in the field of personal growth and relationships and is best known for his work in relationship enhancement. In his latest book, The Big Leap, he advises:

'Make sure you take plenty of time for yourself, in a space apart from your partner.  It could even be in the next room, so long as the intention is to nurture the independent part of you.  Human beings have twin drives of equal power: the urge to merge and the urge to be an autonomous person.  For a relationship to thrive, both drives need to be celebrated.

If you can learn to take time off from the relationship consciously, you won't need to do it unconsciously by starting arguments and engaging in other intimacy-destroying moves.'

How to use Facebook when you're over 50

Dorothy Sander, from the eHow website (tagline: How to Do Just About Everything), writes, 'More and more of the over 50 crowd are swarming onto FaceBook because it opens doors for communication with friends and family throughout the world. Letter writing seems to have become a thing of the past, but FaceBook can provide you with as much, or as little, connection as you want.'

And, just in case you haven't a clue how to get started on Facebook, Dorothy has written a handy, step-by-step guide to help you do just that: How to Use Facebook When You're Over 50.  Go on!  'Friend' your grandkids and embarrass the heck out of them!

15 Places to make money creating your own products

Who hasn't dreamed about making a living selling something they've created?  Maybe it's that book you wrote that's still sitting in a drawer at home, or that great fabric design that you doodled on the back of a napkin whilst you were waiting for your lunch to be served.

Nowadays, print-on-demand technology has made it possible for anyone to create and sell goods over the Internet with few or no up-front costs and without the need to turn your entire home into a warehouse and your long-suffering family members into order pickers and packers.  Mashable.com has created a roundup of 15 great print-on-demand sites that will help you create and sell everything a whole range of products including t-shirts, coffee mugs, books, skateboards, board games and fabric. 

Cruise packing advice from an expert

A recent find is the Journeywoman website which, deservedly, boasts the tagline: The Premier Travel Resource For Women.  It's packed full (sorry!) of resources, information, advice and travellers' tales and you're sure to find something useful on there, including this advice about packing for a cruise from Linda Coffman, a freelance travel writer.