Fabulous After Forty

Do you want your life story to be a long and joyous one, without having every line written on your face? Yes, we all do! Is there anyone who doesn’t want to look as good as they can, for as long as they can? While there are some very quick fixes such as, minor to major cosmetic surgeries, there are some less extreme measures that you can use to look and feel younger on a daily basis.

We hear a lot these days about “passion.” Everywhere we look, it seems like someone is telling us to “find our passion,” to “follow our passion,” to “live passionately.”

The kids have taken the best years of your life. You gave it all willingly – even through the tantrums and the constant ‘Why? Why?’ of childhood into the raging hormones and cupboard raiding of teenage. Now they’ve moved on and you’ve moved to mid-life.

How to find authentic happiness and improve our chances for long life.

Let’s just say… first thing when you popped out of bed this morning, you woke up and found a little yellow post-it note stuck on the bathroom mirror that could transform your life. You smiled, instantly recognizing this very familiar word.

When’s the last time you had a really good belly laugh? Small children laugh on average around 400 times a day! Unfortunately, as we move into adulthood responsibility grows and laughter diminishes.

None of us want to get old but often we subconsciously adopt attitudes that make us far older than we feel. Some common beliefs about how we face the world are confronted.

Gerontologists say that 70 percent of the aging process is controllable with the right lifestyle choices.

When you take good care of yourself you feel good, look better, enjoy life and are able to tackle everyday stresses.

This poem may be familiar to some of you. It was this poem that was the inspiration for the Red Hat Society. I think there is a message for all of us as we get older, to enjoy life.