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.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's 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, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Great advice!

Also, according to that preeminent philosopher and scholar Groucho Marx, "A man's only as young as the woman he feels."

quote Originally posted by Doni Hagan: Great advice!

I agree.
Now, the real secret is, how do you do those things?

quote Originally posted by Doni Hagan: Great advice! Also, according to that preeminent philosopher and scholar Groucho Marx, "A man's only as young as the woman he feels."

Which is where the "half my age + 7" rule takes precedent.

And don't associate with no old people!

quote Originally posted by skuzzbomer: Which is where the "half my age + 7" rule takes precedent.

This really is a good guideline if you are 22 or older.

Heh.. when my mom turned 40, my dad told her he was thinking about trading her in for two twenty year olds. Without missing a beat she said "You ain't wired for 220" ..!

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quote Originally posted by tbone42: This really is a good guideline if you are 22 or older. Heh.. when my mom turned 40, my dad told her he was thinking about trading her in for two twenty year olds. Without missing a beat she said "You ain't wired for 220" ..!

LOL!!

My grandfather used to refer to something he called the "Code of The Hagans."

It was "Your woman should be wry, spry and about so high" (pointing at his nose.)

quote Originally posted by Doni Hagan: "Your woman should be wry, spry and about so high" (pointing at his belt.)

Fixed it for ya'!

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quote Originally posted by Doni Hagan: Great advice! Also, according to that preeminent philosopher and scholar Groucho Marx, "A man's only as young as the woman he feels."

Works for me...Im the oldest living 20 year old. I may look older, but im in better shape than most that are half my age. Gals over 35, even if I saw one I wanted, cant keep up, lol.