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Are You Thinking Young?

According to scientists, you have between 12,000 and 60,000 thoughts a day, depending on your personality and what's going on in your life.

You want to live a happy life, but how many of those thoughts are not positive thoughts?

You want to feel young and energetic, but how many of your thoughts are making you feel tired or older?

This little booklet, 12+ Powerfull Truths to Tell Yourself , will help you replace some of your negative thoughts with positive, life-affirming thoughts so that you feel happier and have more youthful energy.

Just say these out loud every day and you will see results almost immediately! And, feel free to pass this on to others who you think will benefit from it!

Live to 100 - The Top 3 Secrets

Look through the birthday cards at any card shop and you
will see a lot of jokes about age.  Starting at 30, the message
is that getting old is a negative experience and that it means
“being over the hill”, wrinkles, dentures, senility, sagging
body parts, gray hair or baldness, declining sexuality and the
list goes on and on.  Black balloons become popular gag gifts.

No matter what your age, the negative stereotypes about
aging abound.  My 30 year young son has even started
believing these stereotypes about himself, without questioning
them.

I look around and see vibrant, dynamic people of all ages –
some with 9 decades of experience – and I know that the
stereotypes just aren’t true!  There’s the 95 year young
peace activist, the 85 year young mountaineer, the 80 year
young business woman I can’t even catch up with long
enough to interview. 

What is their secret?  How can you avoid the stereotypes
and live vibrantly into your 90’s and even reach the century
mark?

My granddad, who lived to be 971/2 (in his words, “mite
near 100”) planted grape vines when he was in his mid 70’s. 
People thought he was delusional, but we sure enjoyed the
grapes off those vines years later!

Here are three of his secrets of enjoying life for almost
100 years:

How to live better, longer!

Did you see the headlines yesterday?
“Want to live longer?  Think positive thoughts”

This is good news and bad news…and good news.

An exciting new study released this week proves something
you probably already know – that optimism is good for the
heart and for living a longer life (not to mention for
having more fun along the way!). 

While previous studies have suggested that optimism
boosts overall health, this study focused on heart health.
The most optimistic men (64 to 84) in a Dutch study had a
roughly 50% lower risk of cardiovascular death over a
15 year period.

Isn’t that amazing!  A 50% difference!

You see, the good news is that positive thinking and
optimistic beliefs can have a dramatic effect on our health
and quality of your life.

Now, you may be wondering what the bad news is.  Isn’t
this all good?  What’s the problem?

Part of the problem is, this means the reverse is true. 
Negative thinking can have an equally dramatic, but
negative, effect on your health.  And that’s a scary thought!

So let me ask you, How are your thoughts?

Negative thinking - these brain toxins - are everywhere! 
Maybe even as close as your own head! 

These thoughts often creep in without
you even being conscious of them. If your mind is anything
like mine, there are a lot of negative, uncontrolled thoughts
running around in it all too often.  (Let me give you a hint: 
They’re often very quiet and masquerade as “The Truth”
from our parents, from society, maybe from our spouse
or friends.)

And to make matters worse, even when you are
thinking positive, healthy thoughts, it is hard to get away
from the negative thinking and comments from
friends and family and television.

Last week, for example, I heard someone younger than
me say, “Well, you know, at my age it just gets harder and
harder ….” (They are early 40ish.  Actually, I am about
35, but in a 58 year young body.)

Fortunately, there is more good news!  Once you become
aware of the negative brain toxins, you can do something
about it.

What can you do?  Just like you put good food and
supplements into your body, you can put good thoughts into
your mind.

To help you, I put together a list of 100 positive thoughts I
call “Mind Toners” and included them in “Thinking Yourself
Young”.  You can get these and start thinking more positively
and living with more optimism today.  Just go to
http://tinyurl.com/g3qhz

My mission is to change the way the world
thinks about aging so this is a better place for all of us.
But I need your help!

Exercise - proven to keep you young!

 Exercise is just another word for feeling better by being active at something you enjoy!

    Exercise:  you don't have time not to.

One of the most important things you can do to keep your mind and body young is to exercise.  It’s not too late to start no matter what your age.

If exercise sounds excruciating to you, substitute it with something that sounds like more fun! On a recent cruise, I met a delightful couple from Memphis who have been married 59 years. They danced all night – every night – twirling, swirling, boogying, line dancing, jitterbugging – you name it! They were the most flexible, and slim, couple on the dance floor – all from doing what they loved.

What do you like to do? Try some of these:

Raise your Energy Level with this Anti-aging Tip

DO YOU REMEMBER THE ENERGY OF YOUTH?

Do you remember when you were a child and could play outside ALL day, come home for dinner, take a bath and reluctantly go to bed (where you slept very well!) and then you’d get up the next morning excited about what the day would bring?

Where did all that energy come from? 

NOW, WHERE DOES ALL YOUR ENERGY GO?

Compare that to now: many people work in offices, sitting at the computer, in meetings, commuting to work – and then they come home tired, eat “fast” food, and “veg” out in front to the TV.

Tired. Tired. Tired.

Where does all your energy go?

Well, if you are living that kind of lifestyle, guess what? You DON'T HAVE any ENERGY!

ARE YOU READY TO HAVE MORE ENERGY IN YOUR LIFE?

Do you want to feel better? Sleep better? Look better?

Here’s a quick exercise you can do at home, in the office, in the restroom, or outside in the yard or garden.

Maintaining a Youthful Attitude

Anti-aging Tips for Maintaining Your Youth from the Inside Out:  Are Your Attitudes, Beliefs and Words Keeping You Young, or Making You Old?

Attitude is simply one of the most important things in your life.  This is good news, because Your Attitude can be changed and improved.

We start developing certain beliefs about life and about ourselves as children and young people.  We learn from those around us and from our own experiences and our interpretations of those experiences. 

And then all too often we think they are fixed and believe “that’s just the way life is” or “that’s just the way I am”.  We forget attitude is a matter of CHOICE.

Throughout elementary school, my daughter believed she was not good at math and math was hard.  Then she had a fabulous teacher in sixth grade and throughout middle school who convinced her otherwise.  She is finishing her high school career with twice as many math credits as she needs to graduate.  She loves math, sees beauty in it and is confident she can figure it out.

I was talking with a young friend, in her early 30’s, who is buying a camper.  She said, “At my age, I just don’t want to sleep on the ground any more”.  Could it partly be that she is a single mom and has a rambunctious pre-kindergartner?

Age is an attitude.  You can choose to be “ageless” and have a zest for life.  Or you can choose to feel “old” and limit yourself.

What is your attitude?  Toward life?  Toward yourself?

What do you believe about being over 40 or 50 (or 60, or 80…)?

When you look in the mirror, do you look for gray hair (or a shine on the top of your head) and wrinkles…or…

do you notice the joy and self-confidence in your eyes?  The evidence of laughter and loving?

What do you say – what words do you use?  Do your words reflect enjoyment of life?