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S E P T E M B E R | I S S U E N O . 2 1 0 1 0 6<br />

<strong>AT</strong> <strong>FORTY</strong> <strong>FIVE</strong><br />

The <strong>Magazine</strong> For Women 45+<br />

Y A N A S C H N I T Z L E R :<br />

C R E A T I N G P E R F O R M A N C E A R T<br />

When We Care<br />

Too Much<br />

It Hurts<br />

Yana Schnitzler:<br />

Creating<br />

Performance Art<br />

Dear Ms Mostly<br />

Retirement: Is It The<br />

End Of The Line?


C O N T R I B U T O R S<br />

04<br />

Sherry Kallergis<br />

Editor<br />

<strong>AT</strong> <strong>FORTY</strong> <strong>FIVE</strong><br />

19<br />

APRIL ROSE MORE<br />

APRIL ROSE MORE<br />

PHOTOGRAPH<br />

07<br />

sue dumais<br />

heart led living<br />

20<br />

dear ms mostly<br />

12cover<br />

yana schnitzler<br />

Human kinetics<br />

22<br />

michelle segoly<br />

cyber unit


E D I T O R ' S N O T E S<br />

<br />

<br />

Why is it such a struggle to be ourselves? To live our life on<br />

our own terms?<br />

We should be able to live large and in charge with a sense of<br />

pride but often we are beset by anxiousness. Should we,<br />

could we, do I have it right, what will others think?<br />

In this issue, we are exploring perspectives, learning to let<br />

go of what is in our way, real or imagined.<br />

Included is a wonderful opportunity to join an art project<br />

with women from around the world who are intent on<br />

releasing that which no longer serves them.<br />

I hope you find your freedom.<br />

Live well.<br />

<br />

SHERRY KALLERGIS<br />

<br />

I D O N ' T W A N T T O B E A T T H E M E R C Y O F M Y E M O T I O N S . I W A N T T O U S E T H E M , T O<br />

E N J O Y T H E M , A N D T O D O M I N A T E T H E M . ” ~ O S C A R W I L D E


C O N T E N T S<br />

04<br />

editor's notes<br />

07<br />

when we care too<br />

much it hurts<br />

12<br />

yana schnitzler:<br />

creating<br />

performance art<br />

19<br />

aura of woman<br />

20<br />

dear ms mostly,<br />

retirement is it the<br />

end of the line?<br />

22<br />

5 Ways <strong>You</strong> Can<br />

Improve Security On<br />

<strong>You</strong>r Mobile Devices


WHEN WE CARE TOO<br />

MUCH IT HURTS<br />

/ BY SUE DUMAIS<br />

Caring too much can be more harmful than helpful. The idea that we should be caring and<br />

compassionate individuals is not a new concept. We are taught at a very young age to care about<br />

others but the problem is that there is more importance placed on caring about what others think,<br />

do, and have. We are often programmed to care more about other people’s lives and their opinions<br />

than our own lives and opinions.<br />

“<strong>What</strong> will the neighbours think?”<br />

“Stop doing that—everyone is watching.”<br />

We learn to care so much that we are in constant judgment or fear of judgment, judging whether<br />

others are good or bad, rich or poor, kind or mean, healthy or unhealthy; judging whether they like<br />

us or not and whether they approve of what we are doing or not doing. Caring more about others<br />

becomes a distraction from caring about ourselves and it also opens us up to deep hurt and more<br />

harm than good.<br />

When I was knee-deep into the fitness and wellness industry, I was a sponge for knowledge. I was<br />

constantly taking courses, reading books, and studying research. <strong>Find</strong>ing out how the body works<br />

and what makes it tick consumed me. I was addicted to health and sharing that message with<br />

others. It fed my childhood desire to save the world. In truth, it wasn’t just a strong desire—it<br />

became my responsibility. In other words, I made it my mission, my responsibility. It was on my<br />

shoulders to save the world and everyone in it, including the animals. Just a small burden to bear!<br />

When people were interested in what I had to teach them, it was easy, fulfilling, and I felt a deep<br />

sense of purpose and impact. But my desire to save the world wasn’t just for those who were<br />

interested or ready to be saved. I wanted to help EVERYONE whether they wanted help or not. <strong>What</strong><br />

I thought was if I could just teach them what I knew they would see how important it was and they


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would make the changes they needed to make<br />

to become healthy. I would give advice when it<br />

wasn’t welcome or I would invest much time<br />

and energy in trying to make others see the<br />

truth. I wanted them to “get it” so badly it<br />

consumed me. My love for them was fierce and<br />

I would stop at nothing.<br />

responsible for keeping them healthy and safe.<br />

At the same time, I felt out of control because I<br />

couldn’t control everything they put in their<br />

mouths and their resistance to eating my way<br />

was strong. They ate mostly healthfully, but my<br />

fear-filled mind had me convinced it wasn’t<br />

healthy enough.<br />

I cared so much that if they didn’t change, I felt<br />

responsible. Then I cared so much that I<br />

became attached to whether they changed or<br />

not. I cared so much that I became attached to<br />

them taking the information and doing<br />

something with it. Then I cared so much that I<br />

became anxious and I worried about others<br />

constantly. I cared so much that I alienated<br />

some people in my life because I just wanted so<br />

badly for them to be healthy, happy, and live a<br />

long life.<br />

When they didn’t “get it” or I wasn’t able to help<br />

them, I was devastated and carried them with<br />

me as one of my failures. After all, I had failed to<br />

help them. I had failed to help them see, to<br />

change their mind. Then I started to realize that<br />

caring too much was a heavy burden full of<br />

disappointment and suffering.<br />

Shortly after I healed from cancer, I became<br />

obsessively worried about my family’s health. I<br />

was eating mostly organic super clean food<br />

with no sugar, no wheat, no gluten, and no<br />

dairy; I was green juicing every day. After<br />

receiving a diagnosis of a genetic liver disorder,<br />

I was more aware of what I put in my mouth<br />

and how it would affect my health.<br />

My worry started to grow exponentially when I<br />

would compare how I was eating to how my<br />

husband and kids were eating. They had<br />

already said my diet was too extreme for them,<br />

but my fear kept growing and I felt heavy and<br />

One morning in meditation I started to feel a<br />

huge layer of fear rising up around the health of<br />

my husband. He was stressed at work, he had<br />

gained some weight, and I kept being pointed<br />

to his heart. I felt this huge mountain of<br />

responsibility for keeping him healthy. I had a<br />

painful vision of him dying, and of me standing<br />

over his grave with a “guilty” sign strung<br />

around my neck. Tears streamed down my<br />

cheeks as though a faucet were pouring<br />

uncontrollably. I felt responsible for his health<br />

and I believed that if he died it would be all my<br />

fault. I would be responsible for his death<br />

because I hadn’t been able to convince him to<br />

change his ways. The burden was unbearable<br />

and it cracked my heart open.<br />

I felt out of control because I couldn’t control<br />

everything they put in their mouths and their<br />

resistance to eating my way was strong.<br />

My ego-mind had convinced me I was<br />

responsible for the health of my family because<br />

I bought the groceries. So if something would<br />

have happened to them, it would have been all<br />

my fault. Later that night, I shared my vision<br />

with my husband and told him the burden I<br />

was carrying. I explained how if he died it would<br />

be all my fault. His words were such a gift as<br />

they landed in a way that shifted everything for<br />

me. He said, “<strong>You</strong> are not responsible for me or<br />

anyone else’s health. My health choices are my<br />

health choices, not yours.”


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I suddenly saw an opening in my mind and the<br />

terrifying grip of fear let go; a huge sense of<br />

relief washed over me. I couldn’t force them to<br />

eat a certain way. Trust me—I had tried and it<br />

hadn’t worked. Forcing them is not<br />

empowering them. It is not up to me; it is up to<br />

them. They must make the choice for<br />

themselves.<br />

I felt a freedom I never felt before. It was as<br />

though I let go of a lifetime of attachment to<br />

the choices others make or don’t make. It is not<br />

up to me. I can empower them with knowledge<br />

but ultimately they need to feel empowered by<br />

making their own choices. I can show up and<br />

play my part but the rest is not up to me. It is<br />

like that old saying, “<strong>You</strong> can lead a horse to<br />

water, but you cannot make it drink.”<br />

In my life and in my home, I lead by example. I<br />

buy healthy foods and make healthy meals, but<br />

my family doesn’t need to eat a hundred<br />

percent healthy all the time unless they want<br />

to. By processing my fears, I let go of my<br />

attachments around their health and accept<br />

their choices. I have also slowly let go of my<br />

judgments about their choices and freed them<br />

to empower themselves. Still, I do make<br />

decisions for my son around food, only because<br />

he would eat sugar all day long if I let him. The<br />

difference is when I do say no or yes to certain<br />

foods, it is now coming from a place of love not<br />

paralyzing fear and control disguised as caring.<br />

We are programmed to care so much that we<br />

want to help, give advice, fix, change, and make<br />

right what we think is wrong in other people’s<br />

lives. The truth is that other people’s lives are<br />

none of our business, but we make them our<br />

business and that can come at a great sacrifice<br />

and much suffering.<br />

Let’s take a look at the news for a moment. Do<br />

you feel better or worse after watching, reading,<br />

or listening to the news? I believe CNN is short<br />

for “constant negative news.” We are<br />

bombarded with images and stories that build<br />

fear and make us feel guilty for what we have,<br />

bad for what we don’t, and even worse for<br />

others. When we care so much that we feel sick<br />

to our stomach or we develop chronic anxiety<br />

about everything that is going wrong in the<br />

world, we are not helping; we are causing more<br />

harm. We are causing more harm to our own<br />

well-being, but we are also adding more fear to<br />

an already fear-filled world.<br />

I used to believe that caring showed others that<br />

I loved them. People don’t need you to care in<br />

the form of worry. That is the same as sprinkling<br />

them with fear. People want to feel loved, and<br />

caring too much is not an expression of love: it<br />

is an expression of fear. So not only are we<br />

adding more fear to the pot, we are causing<br />

more suffering inside our own minds as we<br />

learn to chronically fret and worry about others.<br />

That is not loving to others or ourselves.<br />

The world doesn’t need more fear and neither<br />

do we. We need more authentic genuine<br />

expressions of love sprinkled with empathy and<br />

compassion. Empathy calls us to imagine how<br />

they must be feeling and loving them in spite<br />

of those feelings. It is about being present for<br />

them to express and share how they feel<br />

without our judging them or trying to fix them<br />

or change how they feel. Just loving them in<br />

that moment and holding space for them to<br />

feel fully so they can heal is enough.<br />

Instead, we are taught to sympathize by feeling<br />

sorry for others and their situations. People<br />

don’t need us to feel sorry for them and it only<br />

leaves us feeling bad at the same time. Meeting


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them in fear with our own fear is not helpful.<br />

Meeting their fear with your unconditional love<br />

and being a compassionate witness allows<br />

them to feel heard, seen, and understood and<br />

at the same time allows us to hold the high<br />

note and stand strong in the energy of love.<br />

My responsibility is not to save the world<br />

anymore. I support those I am meant to<br />

support and free everyone else to live their life.<br />

Today, I do my best to see everyone through<br />

the lens of love. I honour where they are and<br />

accept that some are willing to heal and some<br />

are not. The difference from the way I used to<br />

be is I now see everyone as capable. I see<br />

everyone’s potential and I focus on that without<br />

attachment.<br />

I know that beyond their fear is all the love they<br />

could ever need or ever ask for. We all have<br />

access to that love. Some will turn toward the<br />

love and say YES and others will turn away from<br />

it and say no. I accept and honour them either<br />

way. I love them just the same. Now that<br />

doesn’t mean I devote my time and energy<br />

trying to help them all. I simply love them and I<br />

trust my heart to lead me. Either I will guide<br />

them or I won't.<br />

My responsibility is not to save the world<br />

anymore. I support those I am meant to<br />

support and free everyone else to live their life.<br />

I trust I will work with those I am meant to or<br />

they will find someone else. The pressure is off<br />

my shoulders because I took it off. The burden<br />

is no longer mine to carry because I put it<br />

down. I no longer care too much, but I have<br />

learned to love deeply without attachment and<br />

that has been the biggest gift I could have ever<br />

given myself and the world.<br />

Gift yourself or a friend a copy<br />

Stay tuned next week for chapter 2 ~ We Are<br />

More Connected Than We Are Separate<br />

Here you can read all chapters to date<br />

***This is an excerpt from Sue Dumais' book<br />

"Stand UP Stand OUT Stand STRONG ~ A 30<br />

Day Guide to Navigate Life When the SHIFT<br />

Hits the Fan"<br />

Published on atfortyfive.com with permission<br />

from © Sue Dumais<br />

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Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project


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Creating<br />

Schnitzler<br />

Yana<br />

Performance Art<br />

/BY SHERRY KALLERGIS<br />

Yana Schnitzler of Human Kinetics creates performance art. Her current participatory art project<br />

draws women together from around the world giving them a unique opportunity to heal.<br />

This performance art “Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project” offers you a role, allowing you<br />

to release that which is holding you back. We all have things in our life that hinder our personal<br />

growth. Sadly, it can be difficult to release its hold on us. I am so excited to participate and you<br />

can too. Learn more.


Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project<br />

Garment District Exhibition New York City<br />

Yana sewing fabric pieces<br />

together into the skirt<br />

Fitting the skirt on the<br />

mannequin Sally


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The project began about one and a half ago.<br />

Yana made an initial call for women to<br />

participate through social media and online,<br />

inviting them to write down on a piece of fabric<br />

what was standing in their way. Then they<br />

mailed or scanned it and emailed it to her. She<br />

started receiving pieces from over 45 countries<br />

including Australia, Bangladesh, Pakistan,<br />

Uruguay, Russia.<br />

Now, she is sewing all the pieces into a roomfilling<br />

skirt and eventually wearing it in a<br />

performance. Finally, and symbolically, the skirt<br />

will be destroyed releasing the blockages. She<br />

shares her journey today. (The following is<br />

edited for flow)<br />

How Was The Response?<br />

The response has been so touching and<br />

beautiful. When I receive those personal and<br />

sometimes intimate pieces, I often cry, because<br />

I see myself.<br />

Earlier this year, I had a gallery run in<br />

Manhattan's garment district. I hung all the<br />

pieces on the walls, to begin with, like a<br />

traditional exhibition with a mannequin<br />

affectionately named Sally, in the center of the<br />

room wearing a plain white skirt spread out<br />

filling the room.<br />

Over the course of the seven weeks, those<br />

pieces on the walls slowly came down and<br />

were attached to form the fabric of the skirt.<br />

As it was a storefront, people could see the<br />

exhibition and were drawn in by curiosity.<br />

I also had a sandwich board out on the street<br />

encouraging participation. It was unbelievable<br />

how many came in, even men. Everyone<br />

wanted to read what was on the pieces.<br />

Some came in and just stood there crying<br />

because they felt the pain that was hanging<br />

on the walls. It was a very visceral experience.<br />

Many wanted to participate and share their<br />

story. That was unexpected, after all, it is New<br />

York, people are too cool and usually too busy.<br />

I think though the project was timely. It was<br />

February, with COVID behind us and everyone<br />

was more open, waking up. <strong>You</strong> would not<br />

believe how empty New York City had been,<br />

like a ghost town.<br />

I feel because of the past year, we were scared.<br />

COVID stirred us up and gave us an<br />

opportunity for reflection, to reconsider our<br />

values and what's important to us. And I think<br />

all that really came together in the response.<br />

Some days I didn't have a single minute to<br />

create and work on the skirt because so many<br />

were coming and responding to it. They didn’t<br />

expect to see things so personal and painful,<br />

like a piece that says, depression, or shame, or<br />

anxiety or patriarchal overloads. It caused<br />

many to stop in their tracks.<br />

There was a very different level of<br />

communication happening. Women were<br />

talking, feeling, and sharing. I was there to hold<br />

the space for them to have an experience, to<br />

share their stories, or declare for themselves<br />

what they wanted to let go of.<br />

<strong>What</strong> Did <strong>You</strong> Learn?<br />

We're so much alike regardless of where we<br />

are in the world. We are all facing similar<br />

things that create a bond, a sense of<br />

community. That very fact is empowering as<br />

well.<br />

There is magic in all the positive responses. It<br />

has been an incredible journey so far.


Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project<br />

Things Women Are Letting Go


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As performance art goes, the project has its own<br />

rhythm, and it has grown. It is interesting<br />

because, at times, it did not go smoothly. At first,<br />

some days I wouldn't get pieces and I would<br />

think maybe the project is not what I should be<br />

doing, or it doesn't want to be born. Whenever I<br />

was close to giving it up, I got another piece. So,<br />

it was like dangling a carrot in front of me.<br />

Another example was when I was running out of<br />

fabric. Then my husband saw huge trash bags<br />

filled with fabric samples on the street in the<br />

garment district. The solution found me and<br />

added a tactile experience for women. Women<br />

could make more personal choices from a range<br />

of fabrics and colors.<br />

<strong>What</strong> Is Next?<br />

Originally, I wanted to create the skirt and then<br />

finish the project. The response was so powerful,<br />

so touching, and empowering that I felt it<br />

needed to be seen by as many as possible and<br />

many women should have the opportunity to<br />

participate. Pieces continue to come in and I<br />

am busy adding them to the skirt. There are<br />

multiple showings in the US and then it moves<br />

on to Germany.<br />

In the spring, I'm going to do a closing<br />

performance art show wearing the final skirt. By<br />

that time will be huge. As each piece is<br />

connected, the skirt figuratively collects<br />

women’s voices together so I am gathering<br />

those voices around me, and finally publicly<br />

destroying the skirt as a symbol of letting go.<br />

Can We Participate In This Performance<br />

Art?<br />

Yes, I am still accepting pieces. <strong>You</strong> can find the<br />

details here.<br />

Simply you take a piece of fabric you have. It<br />

could be meaningful like your favorite blouse or<br />

just an odd piece. Write what you want to let go<br />

of in whatever way you want; markers, pens,<br />

paint, even embroider or hand stitch. Then you<br />

mail it to me or scan and email it to me and I will<br />

print it on fabric.<br />

It can be a unique way of setting that intention<br />

for yourself. I encourage you to be creative.<br />

Get To Know Yana<br />

How did you get started in performance art?<br />

Growing up in communist East Germany, there<br />

wasn’t much room for individuality: <strong>You</strong> go to<br />

school, get a job, get married, have a family, and<br />

work your job until retirement. No room left or<br />

right. So, even though as a child I was always<br />

drawing and crafting, moving, and dancing, I<br />

never considered myself an artist. I was a people<br />

pleaser and thought I had to follow that ‘regular<br />

path’. However, in trying so I got into real trouble<br />

- with myself. Depression and overall<br />

unhappiness eventually led me to quit my job in<br />

the film business, which was a starting point of<br />

my journey.<br />

My journey is one of a “split personality” so to<br />

speak. I’ve always had two contradictory sides in<br />

me: a people pleaser on one side to fill that inner<br />

void and a quiet rebel against everything<br />

mainstream on the other. However, the more I<br />

am becoming who I am, the more I learn to be<br />

myself and do the things that I feel I’m here for<br />

the more these two sides are fading away.<br />

<strong>What</strong> has been the most rewarding aspect of<br />

your journey?<br />

The most rewarding aspect of my journey is that<br />

I feel like I keep growing, as an artist and as a<br />

person. I’m learning more about myself, who I<br />

am, and what I “really” care about. And in this<br />

process, I feel I’m becoming more whole.<br />

<strong>What</strong> has been an unexpected barrier and<br />

how did you overcome it?<br />

When you move to another country, as I did<br />

twenty years ago, you find all this new freedom.<br />

That’s what you left your home country for.<br />

<strong>You</strong>’re able to re-invent yourself, and you go for it.<br />

Only to realize at some point, that you carry that<br />

same cultural conditioning that you had left in<br />

the first place within yourself and that this is<br />

what holds


you back on a deeper level.<br />

Learn More<br />

<strong>What</strong> is your key strength?<br />

Focus and perseverance. I’m also quite<br />

organized.<br />

If you could meet anyone for lunch, who<br />

would it be?<br />

I have a long list but to pick a few:<br />

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of<br />

Liberia, for her incredible courage,<br />

determination, and foresight<br />

My paternal grandmother, for her love and to<br />

learn about her life<br />

Louise Bourgeous, for insights about her<br />

work and artmaking process<br />

Website is humankinetics.org<br />

How to participate<br />

Follow on social media:<br />

Facebook Yana Schnitzler Human Kinetics<br />

Instagram yanaschnitzlerhumankinetics<br />

If you love art, check out our Women In Art series<br />

<br />

<strong>What</strong> is the best advice you ever received?<br />

I find the best - and the hardest! - advice is:<br />

“Trust yourself.” We live in a culture that<br />

overemphasizes a rational view of things. The<br />

mind that reasons and has explanations while<br />

our gut feeling says the opposite but cannot<br />

“prove” its point. That’s why it’s such a challenge<br />

as we have to trust. Trust that kind of deeper<br />

sense of knowing.<br />

<strong>What</strong> do you need to make more room in<br />

your life for?<br />

More fun stuff, such as random handstands at<br />

the beach. I used to love to do them as a kid, and<br />

though they’ve gotten bad I still enjoy doing<br />

them. Or ice skating in the winter.<br />

If you could learn anything new, what<br />

would it be?<br />

I’d like to learn to weave. There’s something<br />

about working with physical material that I find<br />

very satisfying, that tactile experience of it. I<br />

would also love to learn trapeze or kiteboarding.


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AURA OF WOMAN<br />

Neeta is our Aura of Woman Imagery this week.<br />

This series from April Rose More Photography celebrates<br />

women who embrace their unique Aura of Woman and share it with the world.<br />

<br />

View the complete series


Dear Ms Mostly<br />

Ms. Mostly mostly knows it all<br />

and if not, she is on the hunt to<br />

find the answer for you.<br />

Retirement: Is It<br />

The End Of The Line?<br />

Dear Ms Mostly<br />

Well, here I am riding the rails to retirement at<br />

what seems like 200 miles an hour. I am worried<br />

about what is at the end of the line. Having<br />

been a single, career professional all my life, it<br />

has been easy keeping busy while at home for<br />

short periods of time. <strong>Not</strong> so, the future.<br />

Will I soon be relegated to the sofa, catching<br />

up on old episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, listening<br />

to all the political goings-on, all by myself? It<br />

has been easy to not have any hobbies while<br />

dedicating myself to my job.<br />

Many of my friends are business associates.<br />

Some will still be working and others will be off<br />

into their own retirement with their spouses. I<br />

am at a loss for ideas to keep busy and want to<br />

proactively stave off the lonely days and nights I<br />

am half expecting. Any ideas, Ms. Mostly?<br />

<strong>What</strong> now?<br />

Dear WH<strong>AT</strong> NOW,<br />

<strong>You</strong>r future will be largely what you imagine it<br />

to be. Positive visualization does not include old<br />

episodes of Grey's Anatomy so cut that s**t out.<br />

many not-for-profits, community organizations,<br />

and boards need intelligent, experienced<br />

people with time to devote. <strong>You</strong>'ll find you don't<br />

need a paycheque to derive satisfaction from<br />

work and, even better, you'll likely meet other<br />

people with similar life circumstances and will<br />

make new friends who will suit your retired<br />

lifestyle.<br />

Once you start to reach out to organizations<br />

that do things that inspire and motivate you,<br />

there will be fewer lonely days and nights, and,<br />

more likely, you'll find there is simply too much<br />

you can devote yourself to and you actually<br />

need a little break from being busy.<br />

That will be the only time I'll allow you to<br />

wallow on the couch with an old Grey's<br />

Anatomy-fest.<br />

It sounds as if your career kept you busy<br />

enough to avoid hobbies and outside activities<br />

so now is the time to take that well-used and<br />

rich brain of yours and put it to work building<br />

capacity in others and in your community. So


I'm<br />

anxious<br />

fabulousYOUniversity.com


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