How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Mark Victor Hansen
Language: English
Pages: 299
ISBN: 0785289267
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Baby Boomer Alert
Get ready for the next prime of your life!
Today we're living so much longer and more productively that age sixty has truly become the new age forty-the prime of life when our careers are in full swing, our minds are at their most creative, and our passions burn their hottest. -Mark Victor Hansen and Art Linkletter
So how do we ensure that our bodies remain fit, our minds alert and creative, our finances stable-even growing-throughout our senior years? TV icon Art Linkletter (incredibly active in several enterprises at the age of 94) and Chicken Soup for the Soul® cocreator Mark Victor Hansen team up to show us how.
Much more than a pep talk about maintaining a youthful attitude in our Second Prime, How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life provides tools we can use: strategies, self-tests, worksheets and resources, plus dozens of inspiring stories and humorous anecdotes. Woven together by the authors' own invincible spirits, these empowering principles come alive as Hansen and Linkletter motivate us to find greater purpose and passion in what we do, making the rest of our lives the best ever.
Omaha,” is one of the world’s wealthiest men, the champion of value investors, and the leading mind in smart, risk-managed investing. • Paul Harvey, 87, continues to tell listeners the “rest of the story” and wish us all “good day” on radio stations throughout the United States and around the world. • Etta James, 68, is one of the most vibrant, virtuoso female blues singers in the world and performs at dozens of blues festivals annually. • Chita Rivera, 73, still regarded as “The Goddess of
as a Ford Escort that you take good care of.”17 Surprisingly, gerontologists and other scientists who study the progress of aging say that many who reach one hundred and beyond are in surprisingly good condition, presumably because they have passed the age, thought to be around ninety, where if they were going to develop the destructive maladies of age, they would have done so already. The thinking now is that if you can make it to your 90s, you stand an excellent chance of making it to triple
obesity is the result of inactivity, which is the real culprit. Obesity is merely a symptom of inactivity. More persons die each year from inactivity than obesity.” For every year you wait to start engaging in a lifestyle of healthy movement, you increase your chances of developing heart-related problems, cancer, or complications due to obesity (such as diabetes), which potentially threaten your future health. The good news is no matter when you begin an exercise regimen, you will benefit from
sessions and a vegetarian diet. So what’s behind the greater life span of the spiritual? Many researchers suggest that the social networks that form in religious congregations offer valuable support for their members. Regular attendance at religious services gives people a place to both lend support and receive it, helping them cope better with such stresses as financial hard times, disease, or the loss of a loved one. The benefits of spiritual beliefs may go even deeper than the social
painting, and voice. • Find ways to practice being creative in total privacy until you’re comfortable. • Make a list of people you trust to whom you can show your work first. 2. Changes You Need to Make for a More Creative Life • • • • • 3. Your Creative Goals for Your Second Prime Example: “Discover the filmmaker inside of me.” • • • • • 4. Creativity Resources • Fabulous Palm Springs Follies (www.psfollies.com) • How Much Joy (www.howmuchjoy.com) • Senior Theatre