Living Longer – part 2

Studies have revealed that people with positive views of old age do better than people with negative views.

People with the brightest beliefs live 7 1/2 years longer than people with the gloomiest beliefs!

I turn 60 next month and I am looking forward to the decade!  I’m gonna rock it!

What are your views about old age?

Living Longer

In industrialized countries about 1 in 6000 people make it to age 100.  

One in 5 million make it to be 110 years old.  The oldest human was 122 years, 164 days old.

Personally, my goal is to live to be 100.  But of course, some people are in such pain or state of incapacitation when they get old, that dying may not be such a tragedy to them, but a relief.  Why live longer if you are suffering?

The time to think about this is now.

Here are five habits that are thought to extend life – 

1) Regular exercise.

2) Good diet.

3) Healthy weight.

4) no smoking

5) don’t drink too much.

One expert says this – “Don’t eat too much, stick to plants.”

How long do you think you will live?

Which version of you wins?

In different situations, we can be kind, helpful, productive, happy, and centered, etc, OR rude, callous, bitter, violent and jealous, etc.

We all have the potential for each version in us, and we have all brought each side out at times – at our best and worst moments.

In this struggle, the great challenge is to be our best as we walk through our time here each day.

Your lower self, or your higher self – which version of you wins?

Withhold Judgement as Long as Possible

Sometimes you have to make a quick judgment.  But most times you don’t.

If you make snap judgments, you are wrong too often.

When you are wrong because you jumped the gun, it’s embarrassing and you lose your credibility.

Stay open.

Don’t jump to conclusions or the first answer.

Withhold your judgments as long as possible while observing and collecting more information.

Who do you want to be?

Man, that’s a damn good question.

Answer it and a lot of your decisions are already made.

Do the things that the person you want to be would do.

Who do you want to be?

Stay true to you.

When I have made decisions that were against who I am, I felt uncomfortable and it wasn’t right.

Sometimes it felt uncomfortable in the beginning and turned out to be a big mistake.

Make decisions that are in alignment with your beliefs and values.

Those you can live with and feel good about it.

Are you really in charge of you?

Are you in charge of you?

I mean your attention – which is all you have.  Are you in charge?

Where you focus your attention is where your mind and life go.

The world is clamoring to get it – and they are very clever in doing so.  They know how to get you.

If you don’t separate yourself from distractions, distractions will separate you from your goals.

Fix your troubles

If you don’t fix your troubles they will be there for you tomorrow – and many have a tendency to grow.

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice” – Aristotle

How you deal with trouble reveals your character.

What do your troubles say about your character?

Bad food isn't bad for you…

…until you eat it.  

We don’t gain weight from the availability of low-quality food, but from its consumption.

Who decides what food goes in your mouth?

Buyer beware of impulse buying

Insecurity + impulse + easy credit = Trouble.

Be careful.  If you get swept up in the moment and commit to payments on something, especially on things that go down in value (cars, furniture, clothes, timeshare vacation places, etc.), you will regret it.

It’s hard to make money, and easy to spend it foolishly.