An Essential Guide To Aging Well: Aging Is Your Door To New Journey: Aging With Power

The second half of your life can bring some of your most rewarding decades. You may be more confident than your younger self. You gain wisdom and patience. Sure, your hair sprouts more grays, and your face sports more lines. But you can grow older with your body and mind as healthy as they can possibly be.

You are free to be innovative and imaginative at any time or place in your life. The opportunity to experience a rejuvenation process for your mind, heart, emotions, and spirit is available at any point. You'll gain a lot of power and influence each time you expand your horizons. Refuse limitations. Go out-of-bounds. Take risks and leaps of faith.

Included points:

You have a lot to offer the younger generation if they are smart enough to take advantage of your stories and stored up wisdom.
An abundance of knowledge, talents, and skills to use and share has been gained. Leveraging the expertise and variety in those categories enables you to accomplish more with higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness.
Aging can become an issue to confront, be viewed as an impending crisis, or as a creative challenge.
Cry out! CANCEL! whenever you hear or make statements regarding how age makes you less of a person mentally, physically, or emotionally.
It's a thinking process of enjoying the time remaining and sharing the best of who you are.
Look at the mental picture you want of yourself, even when you are older. Show more frequently, by example, that you don't want to think "I'm old" thoughts.
As you grow older, you can't always do what you like but you can usually do more than you think.
Why give up too soon just because the calendar indicates the passage of years? Maturity is acknowledging that all you've gained can now be used in a big way for more wins.

When difficulties appear, you will be better equipped to handle them with both power and restraint. The appropriate mix of the two will help you handle the situation or relationship with a more central focus and a stable and fair-minded environment.

Do something today that's outside of your normal routine. Maybe it's a bit wild. Maybe your friends will say you are crazy. Do it anyway. In fact, do something that makes you feel like a child again.

Feeling self-reliant, optimistic, and regularly seeking new purposes develops and boosts confidence which charges your life-giving endorphin level. Keep it powered up.

Growing older is not as upsetting as being perceived as old, so take care of your thoughts and actions.

One chapter focuses on the topic of maturity. Eleven categories explain a variety of elements to consider. They include being open-minded, humility, communication skills, interdependence, coping, patience and perseverance, and doing what you want to do.

Several examples of 'words of wisdom' regarding the aging process are shared throughout the book. Two chapters offer a collection of quotes, good sayings, and poems for you to learn from, smile at, and appreciate.

I include information about non-electronic toys and games in a book about aging because these activities obviously entertained us while also enabling us to use our powers of creativity, strategy, coordination, memorization, and imagination. We also learned to be competitive when need is, combine efforts at other times, and customize the games for age groups or amount of people playing. Teamwork, camaraderie, patience, and concentration were developed. As we journey through life, all these skills and talents are necessary.

As you grow older, you continually re-invent your life. Make revision an integral part of your days. Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO-HOO what a ride! Aging is a given, how you view...