Posts by Deborah Moyer

Why Your Kids Don’t Want Your Stuff

After over a decade of providing downsizing and transition coaching services to seniors and their families, I’ve noticed one of the biggest challenges that tends to frustrate them the most is what to do with the things they can’t take with them to their new home. Most automatically assume that their adult children will want…

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7 Signs It May Be Time for You to Downsize

Over the last 11+ years as a Senior Downsizing Specialist and Transitions Life Coach, I’ve helped thousands of senior clients, and their families, successfully navigate the challenges of downsizing to a smaller home or retirement community. As I’ve mentioned in a previous blog, a downsizing move is unlike any other move a person might have…

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Surviving a Career Change After 50

2020 has certainly been a year of extraordinary change and challenge for all of us, but if you’re over 50 and facing a career change due to COVID-19, you are probably in a state of shock right now. Will Ageism Affect Your Career Change? A recent AARP report (Unemployments Toll on Older Workers) stated that…

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Organizing & Senior Downsizing: The Perfect Business Duo

What makes a great business succeed?  Is it the type of services a business provides?  Is it the people bringing that service to the customer?  Is it a business that’s highly specialized? Does it have a global appeal?How many businesses offer the same services in an area and is there diversity in the way that…

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An Entrepreneur’s Greatest Startup Challenge: Their Mindset

I remember how I was feeling when I started my first business.  Excitement was pumping through me like an electrical current and I knew to the core of my being that I was meant to help seniors navigate through the complex emotional and physical aspects of a downsizing transition. For me, starting a business wasn’t…

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Why It’s Tough Letting Go of Stuff

by Deborah Moyer Over the past eleven years, I’ve helped hundreds of clients as they navigated through what I think is the worst part of the downsizing process: Purging.  Getting rid of things, especially items that have a lot of emotional value, can be difficult because we humans LOVE to acquire!   For most of…

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The Cure for the “Entrepreneur-in-Waiting” Blues

Are you an “entrepreneur-in-waiting”?  Someone who’s had a life-long dream of owning a business serving others, but, like many, you’re holding off because you think there’s too many obstacles in your way to create a sustainable and lucrative small business in today’s marketplace.   That’s where I was twelve years ago in 2008.   I had just…

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Why a Downsizing Move is Unlike Any Other

By Deborah Moyer Who loves moving?!  Oh, come on!  You know you LOVE having to wrangle a thousand little details like deciding what will fit in your new home, packing until your back breaks, trying to find a decent mover that won’t destroy your favorite things and my personal favorite, that mind numbing decision-making exercise…

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