Tips for Aging Successfully
What Is Successful Aging? With all the exercise and fitness advice out there for the after fifty-year old individuals, there is so much conflicting information out there on what precisely we should do to have a healthy older age. We have all heard that you should exercise and eat healthy. And most of us try to do that as much as we can.We toil and rush to the gym so that we could get that workout in so that we could check off or schedules. But is it really worth it in the long run?
I believe that it is worth exercising and eating right to be healthy in our older years. However, I think some of us turn it into an obsession where we just keep going to the gym, spending hours, and try to look like we did when we were twenty and thirty years old.
This kind of obsessive mindset is very unhealthy and should be curbed for us to have a healthy older age. We must find a way to balance being healthy in a world of extremes where, on the one hand, we are encouraged to eat all the wrong foods for us through advertisements, and on the other hand, we are drilled to go to the gym for 2 hours every day so that we can be healthy.
There is a way to balance a healthy lifestyle so that you can live your best and healthiest life in your older age. I believe that to find this balance, we need to become more mindful of what we are doing on a daily basis.
Here are a few things to try:
1. Exercise no more than 20 to 30 minutes, 5 days a week. Walking is just as good as going to the gym. So, why pay so much money for memberships to gyms. Instead, walk outside during the nice weather, and when you can walk outside, find other ways of exercising at home.
2. Live a more balanced and mindful life, where you can slow down and smell the roses.
This is so important because for many of us, even when we retire, we end up doing so much every day. In essence, we have replaced our careers with another career.
3. Take time to enjoy every day of your life. Do at least one nice thing for yourself every day. Sew, crochet, play golf, read, or take a course. All of these things will help you enjoy the quality of your life.
4. Create a bucket list and do the things and start doing the things on your bucket list one at a time. If travel is on your bucket list, start budgeting and planning for these trips. Then when the time comes, go to these destinations and enjoy yourself.
By taking these steps you will be aging successfully. You will also be taking the time to enjoy life, because it goes so fast. Remember that we don’t have forever. So, we should make every day count.
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About the author:
Irene S. Roth writes for teens, tweens, and kids about self-empowerment. She is the author of over fifty books and over two thousand online articles. She also has over 1,500 published book reviews both online and in print. In addition, she has several books published about living well with chronic illness. Please double click on this link to read about one of them: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/689182
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