Middle Aged and Getting More Youthful Daily

I have seen more centurions lately than ever before, so middle age marker points are changing. “ For me it means, taking care of yourself is not an option anymore”:http://bmindful.com/forum/thread/1369/health-studies-and-aging-#post14055

Does anyone remember in your 20’s being able to go out for dessert..and it was sharing a pie (a 1/2 or a whole one) or going for pizza didn’t mean a large slice or 2? What did “going out” mean to you? Anyway..times change, and I don’t say that with sadness..just the facts(:

I saw this article on middleage.org quoted:

• I’ve decided that middle age is that point in your life when you shift from seeing the future in terms of your potential and begin to see it in terms of your limitations. It’s a shift that’s so slow, so incremental, that we don’t even notice it on a day-to-day basis. But we start at one end and end up at the other. It doesn’t happen overnight.

• Looked at with any objectivity, it doesn’t make sense. Once we’re in our 40’s, or 50’s, or 60’s, we ought to think that we finally have enough experience and enough freedom to really begin to grow, not begin to decline. I know people who are 85 or older, but who still look forward to tomorrow. Unfortunately, I know people 15 or younger who’ve already given up. But they’re rare, most of us slide down the hill from youth to old age, instead of climbing the hill. Sure, it’s a matter of perspective and “all we have to do” is change our perspective. But we make it very hard on ourselves when we associate a perspective with a specific age group and treat it as inevitable because aging is inevitable. As the old saying goes, we dig our own grave. We don’t have to.

this article

Ten Insights from Middle-age
10 insights from Middle Age.org

• You will learn lessons.

• There are no mistakes, only lessons.

• A lesson is repeated until learned.

• If you don’t learn the easy lessons, they get harder.

• You’ll know you’ve learned a lesson when your actions change.

• “There” is no better than “here”.

• There is no absolute right or wrong, but there are consequences.

• Your life is up to you.

• Your answers lie inside you.

• You’ll tend to forget all this, but you can remember any time you wish.

this article

Avoiding the retirement bubble pg 1
Avoiding the retirement bubble pg 2 The Good News

Time versus Age

from middleage.org
Things you’ve heard as a child that makes sense today:

• If you don’t try it, you’ll never know if you’ll like it or not.

• No one gets it right the first time.

• Practice make perfect.

• Don’t worry about what other people say, you do what you know is best for you.

• If they laugh at you, just ignore them.

• You have to make up your own mind; don’t wait for someone else to do it for you.

• Be your own best friend or you’ll be your own worst enemy.

• Don’t be afraid to ask questions.

• Everybody has to start somewhere.

• Someday, you’ll look back at all this and laugh!

Importance of Failure

So, Laurie, You’ve noted that *there’s no place better than here… *many of us are getting old & it’s inevitable… *we should appreciate failure… *and now, I need to do a full hour of exercise everyday…

I think I’ll fill up a hot water bottle and go to bed and hope for a better tomorrow, er no, tomorrow is now & that’s like yesterday in a chain of nows and oh,

nEVER MiND; jan

In response to jancydat’s post:

Not so bad(:

We’ll hit the exercise motivation together(:

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We aren’t failing, we are improving.(: Progression not perfection(:

And by the way gal, we aren’t getting older..we are simply getting better and life is good

Life is Good is sung by Livingston Taylor->James Taylor’s younger brother.

(hugs)