3 Tips to Stay Young and Youthful

To stay youthful, you must create an abundant life of fun, fitness of the mind and the body and financial security.

We Can Be Forever Young:

Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind,
it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination,
a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity,
of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years;
people grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair
-these are the long, long years that bow
the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Whether seventy or sixteen,
there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder,
the sweet amazement at the stars and star-like
things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events,
the unfailing childlike appetite for what next,
and the joy and the game of life.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear,
as young as your hope,
as old as your despair.
So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer,
courage, grandeur and power from the earth,
from man and from the Infinite, so long you are young.
When the wires are all down
and all the innermost core of your heart is covered
with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism,
then you are grown old
indeed and may God have mercy on your soul.
~Author UnknownSent by: G. Montes de Oca (Trinidad & Tobago)

Barbados-Poems and Poetry

We want to stay forever youthful not just young:

The word ‘Young’ describes an early stage of a life cycle.

The word ‘youthful’ describes positive characteristics often associated with a person in an early stage of his life. These are freshness, curiosity, agility, excitement, health, energizing and spontaneity. As we get older, we want to retain these positive characteristics of a young child.

Cycle of life consists of birth, living, death, rebirth. Going through reincarnation.

This is a common belief in Asian religion and philosophy not at all uncommon to Western religion and philosophy.

There are four cycles in this life:
1. Birth to Childhood /Teenage hood
2. Young Adulthood to Adulthood
3. Middle age
4. Old Age
Here I am talking about getting older.
50+, 55+, 60+ and older…

And it is your responsibility to

share your legacy with your grown-up daughters, sons, and grandchildren.
Influence your community.
Share and influence with your wisdom and life experience that you accumulated throughout your life time.

If you are getting aged, feeble, senile,
and if an illness strikes you, and you become physically disabled…
then you are not really sharing the fruit and rewards of you long life that you lived.

It is your right and your responsibility to remain youthful and influential.

I would like to share my secret with you.

The first step of staying youthful is to take a walk every day.
The benefits of daily walk are numerous. Daily walking creates a foundation of your spiritual and emotional being. Physical benefits are countless.

My blog posts: 7 Benefits of Daily Walk

Mindful Walking Meditation: 10 Simple Rules the 10 simple rules of Mindful Walking Meditation and turn you daily walk into a mediation experience.

3 Tips of staying young and youthful consists of 3 F’s:

1] Fitness and Health

Physical Fitness:

This category is a big one. Not only about your musculature, body weight, body shape, blood pressure and pain free joints. This may mean going to a gym, taking Yoga classes, or stretch classes.

Walking is a must. Some people jog daily. Take martial art classes.

Facial & Skin Care:

A facial should be about skin care, not just relaxation. Recently I saw an an all time icon Rock & Roll star perform on stage… He’s been aging; his singing, his voice still remained great. His movement, physical agility and leanness were all amazing. but his face showed his age with deep creases of wrinkles… revealing stress and lots of not so great lifestyle habits.

Your face and skin conditions are so essential in keeping you young and youthful…
This will be explored more fully at my Health related blog.

Mind & Spirituality:

Mental health and personal development for your mind. Develop the right mindset to cope with challenges. 30 minutes of reading a great book on personal development daily.

Meditation and prayer and reciting one affirmation. Designate 30 minutes per day.

Proper Diet:

There are so many kinds of diets each claiming to give you ultimate health.
You would have to keep open mind, research and experiment what works for you best.

2] Fun, Recreation, Relaxation:

This is about your lifestyle.

A balance of play and work.
A balance of time for yourself and family.
A balance of serious study /learning time and fabulous party time.
A balance of quality time at home and traveling.
A vigorous outdoor activities and goofing around at home.
Art and culture, museums and theater going and barbecue with gals and guys.
A balance of nature, your own neighborhood, and big cities.

You experience time freedom. You enjoy a wide varieties of activities. A Stress free lifestyle.

You may say it is too much work.

It is like depositing a penny a day to your ‘Lifestyle Bank’ that doubles in its value daily.

Be mindful
Be Consistent
Believing
Never giving up.

You will beat the forces of biological aging.
It’s never too late to start to reverse you aging process.
You start at age 40, 50, even 60… it works!

3] Financial Security:

If you live in a tiny village and your family all live very close, You didn’t need much. Such was the case more than 100 years. The systems that gave Americans their financial security crumbled for a majority of Americans.

The Examination of Your Retirement Plan:

As discussed in my blog earlier, the value of investment went down substantially and many people’s 401 K’s evaporated in value. Evaluate your retirement plan and its financial security measures based on the following criteria:

1. Have you seen a financial consultant or have calculated your financial needs during your life expectancy?

2. Do you have any or more than one source of residual income?

3. Do you have more than 401 K plan, such as saving accounts or traditional retirement plans?

4. If you have real estate generating income, is it located in more than one region or country?

5. Do you have at least two adult children who have great financial resources and are willing to support you financially?

The more “yes” answers you have, the more strategically situated you are.

Unless you have enough financial security to do the things you want, live comfortable and share your resources generously with your loved ones, it is very difficult to remain youthful.

All the things required to maintain your fitness; have good time and spend meaningful time with your loved ones are seriously compromised. You don’t have to be “filthy rich.”

If you are determined to stay youthful, you will have to think differently about how to generate more income than you are currently making.

Millions of people have been exploring home based businesses and tried network marketing and internet marketing.

The key is to find a system of business that gives:

A residual income
Time leverage
Support of mastermind groups.
Training
Shortcut Automation (Strategic Positioning)

You may or may not be able to stop a few more wrinkles on your face; grey hair; slowing down on vigorous activities. When you manifest your 3F’s, you stay youthful and enjoy your life with your loved ones.

When you manifest your financial security, it is much easier to work on (1) Fitness and Health and (2) Fun, recreation and relaxation.

Tens of Thousands of people have already positioned themselves to begin new businesses online, being supported by their mastermind groups.

You can achieve your financial freedom, healthy fit mind and physiology and life filled with love and fun.
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To Staying Healthy and Youthful,

Yukiko Iino