Ageism

Ageism has become the key term when being discriminated against because of your age no matter who you are. Age discrimination is defined by the act of treating an applicant or employee less favorably because of one’s age. The latter is more confined to workplace and likely educational arenas.

Have you ever been in an age discrimination or ageism situation when your age worked against you? Yes, I have regards to ageism of being underestimated many times of what I could accomplish on my own such as moving across the country with my felines which I plan to move again later. My long distance biking, I met others who thought I was too old to be riding the distance and the speed for which traveled.

Nothing will change unless popular culture or age discriminatory laws are enforced. The odd thing is that the people who actively discriminating against us who are over the age of 55 years of age will taste their own medicine.

From what advice I was given is that to keep your skills of your field and your technology knowledge fresh.

Thank you,

Leslie Elizabeth David.

December Birthdays

For those of us born in December, we share a bond that is unique because we have the first day of Winter, Christmas and New Year’s Eve packed into 31 days. After Thanksgiving, we are moving nonstop until Christmas and lucky enough if we’re fortunate enough to take time to celebrate your birth.

Esquire Magazine published, The Christmas Birthday Blues, by Bob McKinnon that was published on December 25,2021. He has an interesting point of view about being a December baby which is hard for a child to understand and emotionally challenging for some adults who are spent.

Last Friday, I was cornered by two coworkers who my relationship with depends on what it is. They told me that I was attending the Christmas party and doing the gift exchange which for a minute sounded like fun. Today, my Holiday anxiety kicked in and have thought of ways to get out my commitment. At this moment, I have decided to “suck it up” and be an adult.

For my December birthday friends, your anxiety is real. You are valued, you are unique and you are strong so don’t ever forget.

Yours Truly,

Leslie Elizabeth David.

Troubles/Hardship

Although, we’re magnificent modern mature women, we have to work through difficult times yet with more experience in life and in relationships. Some of us are facing relational, emotional, physical and financial issues that require each of us to react, to come up with a solution then apply it. Life is complicated from work to family to friends with combinations of all or both having issues.

Myself, the powers of wisdom and of quietness has gotten me though many problems lately given time to think, to feel and to observe.

Please accept my apologies for not being here. Life got in the way along with my share of testing my decisions of how to deal with harassment at work when HR is the problem while I sit on the short end of the stick. Grateful for the wisdom to remain quiet and prayers that helped.

Thank you,

Leslie Elizabeth David.

Change

David Bowie wrote a song about “changes“ in life. The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus, stated that “the only constant in life is change.” He later states that change was central to the universe.

Sometime the smallest change can have a huge impact such as changing on what you were planning to wear to work, what you’re going to have for lunch or changing your commute. The change can affect decisions that you will make throughout the day make have a big impact. For example, you drove a new route to work and found a new cafe, decide to stop, and later meet the person of your dreams.

Change is also stressful because it happens lots of times during the worst of times like breaking up with someone while your employer is laying people off like yourself or your workload increases because others were laid off.

To be fair, change can be great as well as it seems to happen at the right time and everything falls into place. A friend of mine told me about how her daughter met her fiancé that happened not long ago, They live 825 miles apart and 12 hours away from each other. For them, life came together like it was meant to be and in sync.

Change is inevitable. Embrace it. You’re going to be fine.

Thanks,

Leslie Elizabeth David

Trust

Trust is both a verb and a noun in grammatical English yet it carries a lot of weight for only being five letters long.

Dictionary.com defines trust as “reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing. Confidence. Noun. Verb is to expect confidently: hope usually followed by a clause or infinitive as object such as trusting. The business definition of trust doesn’t pertain to this writing.

Trust is part of every kind of relationship rather personal or professional. The stakes can be high on both depending on the intensity of the relationship. Truthfully, I trust only a couple of people without question of a family member and a friend. Romantically has been my most dreadful experiences with trust. My ex husband and a few ex boyfriends proved that trust is sacred and shouldn’t be given to everyone in full blindly.

We all share experiences on how badly we got burned by trusting others emotionally and sometimes financially.

Open for discussion on the board. If you share sensitive content, consider using a pen name to protect yourself.

INTUITION: MY STORY

Years ago, I went through a divorce which ay the time of my separation, a discussion came up about using intuition which I stated I was in sync with it. Complete lie.

Later that evening, I decided to fix my radar for my intuition being out of sync. I decided to lay down, shut my eyes and force myself into an unconscious state which didn’t work for a long time. I laid there for hours it seems.

Finally it hit! I went into a deep sleep after hours of my mind racing around. My mind relived everything from the moment that I decided to leave my future ex husband. Then, afterwards, I experienced the present then the future.

Since then, I have been able to slow down and breathe with regular maintenance.

Recently, I sensed something wasn’t right how people were acting. They were acting not their usual selves. Decided best to stay quiet. I moved where I was eating lunch to avoid confrontation in my car instead of the upstairs lobby where I ate before. My gut feeling was that they wanted me to get fired by falling for the lie that one of them was interested. One of them bragged that they were going to have me terminated that week although already had Friday off so I took Thursday off too. Those days off, I felt that lawyers from the company were removing the situation. Still employed.

If you’re not a believer in intuition or gut feeling, my experience may sound crazy to you like a family member would say until I talk her on the phone and start mentioning things. My experience is more of feeling than seeing unless it is a dream.

My suggestion for those who don’t believe, I encourage you to learn about others experiences of those who you trust,

Thanks for your time,

Leslie Elizabeth David.

Introduction

Welcome to the Magnificent Modern Mature Woman where we celebrate you plus we discuss issues concerning us like relationships, finances, health, retirement, career and hobbies. With age, we gain wisdom from lessons learned and life lived that will be part of the discussion.

Discussion boards will be up which I request that everyone who participates will be respectful to others involved.

You can also post on Twitter under @TheMMMWoman under my name, Leslie Elizabeth David. Please feel free to follow and tweet.

Myself, I am divorced without children and never remarried. I have an MBA and a Six Sigma Greenbelt. My work career has been mainly involved in the financial sector such as banking, home mortgage, finance/investment and insurance. Currently, I live in Texas and previously lived in Michigan and looking to move to the Long Island Sound region.

You are a magnificent modern mature woman! Welcome to your site.