- 1Use all that valuable experience: Or, realize, no one else will... "Experience comes from learning the hard way!", but now: there's not that much left to learn the hard way.
- Be proactive: Get a New Career After 50 using your knowledge and that experience. Go for it.
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2Invest right: Investments in health and life insurance will finally pay off; term life is lower priced...
- Advise others to plan and work to Retire in Your 30s, before it's too late!
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3Walk more: No one expects you to run -- anywhere.
- Drive friendly: Impatient younger drivers are still thinking of speed limits as challenges.
- Live in town near everything that's important, so that you'll naturally tend to walk everywhere - for shopping, to the library, to the park, and thus get exercise without even thinking about it.
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4Relax more: Quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
- Don't shave -- until you want to, if you're a male.
- Park your car at home -- and watch the traffic reports on TV and chuckle at that "rat race" [people still] stuck on that "multi-lane parking lot".
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5Get your "beauty sleep", eat right, exercise for a younger brain: People understand and apologize for calling at 8 PM (or 10 AM) and ask, "Did I wake you?"
- Get a nap: Snooze anytime, day or night - or be awake whenever by the same choice.
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6Maintain your health: Be active, appreciative and confident.
- Take your medications: People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
- Avoid mysterious slow motion due to losing muscle: Do resistance exercise (use weights or machines): exercise somewhat strenuously to maintain quick muscle action -- or you'll begin to go into slow motion as you lose muscle bulk with age (do low impact exercises).
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7Find love after 50: Others are often seeking healthy, appropriate relationships, too. Polish your people skills -- you know: Look them in the eye; remember their names and listen, listen; be agreeable; be a friend; smile; be gracious.
- Give "quickly explained" compliments on their good taste and such. Explaining lightly makes it sincere. Don't get too mushy or too personal, too soon.
- Avoid back-handed compliments (when you were young you were handsome/beautiful -- ouch -- an insult) -- no sarcasm (say what you mean so it is kind and pretty "well done").
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8Be thrifty: Realizing things you buy now probably won't all wear out...
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9Be persistent; hang in there.
- Drop the pretenses: You can sit back relaxed and smile at all the "young people" still trying to impress each other with the bigger, newer car(s), $40 haircuts, the latest [designer] clothes -- but eat out on the daily senior specials, or the child's plate (if allowed), shop clearance racks and thrift stores, etc.
- Get over being starstruck: The latest star or singer is _____ (fill in the blank): you can think to yourself, "Who?" - not really caring anymore.
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10Retire early: You can eat supper at 4 PM.
- Or, retire in your sixties, hopefully with few bills to pay: Now, watch the pension checks and Social Security "roll in" each month with no work at all (that's if you: planned and learned to earn, made "your own luck", worked a pretty good career, in the USA,...).
- Rain? Snow? Sleet? Below freezing or above 100 degrees outside? No problem -- stay inside all day, do good and enjoy life.
- Don't really want be bored -- nor to do any hard work to be productive today? It's okay: as long as you earned it; do good-desires of your heart -- and help others to enjoy every minute of it (treat others as you would want to be treated).
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11List strengths and ailments: You can live without sex -- but not without your eye glasses.
- Update: You get into heated political arguments (about medical benefits and pensions).
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12Celebrate more: Sing along with elevator music -- or cruise with lots of singing and other entertainment.
- Celebrate family and friends; keep in contact with friends: Kick music appreciation up a notch and enjoy a cafe that has singers or karaoke, etc. -- or create a karaoke with family and friends; especially those who are willing to be sociable and try to be fun and happy.
- Enjoy various amusements, parks, school sport, circus and museums -- possibly with your adult kids and/or your grandkids, and/or at times with your siblings which brings in nieces and nephews (if any).
- Celebrate where you find or can make it without cranky grumpiness (without unnecessary "fun" of arguing, aggravation or infighting)!
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13Worry less: Your eyes won't get much worse (and hair, skin, teeth are as good as they'll be).
- Read more: Enjoy those books in big print.
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14Listen to your body: Your joints may give more accurate forecasts than national weather service meteorologists.
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15Keep your info discreet: Secrets are safe with your friends; they can't remember them either.
- Organize your thoughts and memorabilia on paper: Your brain won't ever have a more manageable number of cells.
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16Share your knowledge: Send this article to everyone you can remember (read this again, right now)!
| Walks a mile every day at 99 years old, enjoying life, laughing and quick, confident, still driving her car, walks up and down stairs for exercise with no problem, Minnie Pearl Graves of Goldthwaite, Texas, tells how to live a healthy life. |
- Always, "Take exercise every day, eat a good, balanced meal, and be happy";
- And, "Especially have a lot of friends"; "exercise your mind, play games, and try to win!"...
Tips
- Think about your age based opportunities -- while you still recall reading this.
- "Warm up, or cool down": Never freeze your nose or toes, or sit roasting/basting in the sunshine (after buying tickets) attending some sporting event. If you care, sit back (with your favorite drinks and snacks) and watch the games on your color TV (complete with close-ups, lounge chair and replays from several angles).
- Be right all the time... and be serious: Kidnappers are probably more interested in "less grumpy" hostages, for a quicker, more enthusiastic payoff.
- In surviving a hostage situation, you are likely to be released first, to get your "meds", no less.
Warnings
- Plan ahead: Never take your stronger sleeping pill and that powerful laxative on the same night!
- Do resistance exercise (weights, water jugs, stretch bands or machines): exercise strenuously, to maintain quick-fiber muscle action -- or you'll begin to go into slow motion as you lose quick muscle bulk with age (but do low impact exercise). Don't overdo straining.
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