10 Tips to Staying Young

[Dee Bee]

10 Tips to Staying Young

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. (Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches.)

3. Keep learning:  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain get idle.  "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with him or her.

6. The tears happen: Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with you your entire life is YOU. Live while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love: family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.  Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health:
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, even to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Don't miss an opportunity to tell the people you love that you love them.

[Guest]

I take number 3 to heart pratically. If I am not working my mind on CONSTRUCTIVE things, it seems that my mind starts worrying about EVERY little and big thing.

[Pburgh]

Treasure every single moment!!!
Oh, and throw away all your mirrors!

[kmanWX]

"An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's! "

How true...

[drudd1]

They are all great, but I live by 2 and 5.