Advantages to Aging Blog

Why Is Change So Difficult?What makes people want to change? The question was “want to” not “think they should”. There is a great deal of difference between wanting to change because one internally desires to move toward a greater experience and feeling one needs to...

Many of us understand the need to live, love, learn and leave a legacy. This makes us feel whole, a contributor to humanity, and a model for our friends and family. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t want to be remembered favorably after they have passed on. To...

Stress impacts your fiscal and physical health. You need to have a strategy to keep stress levels in check. 70% - 90% of all primary care visits to health care facilities are stress-related, according to the American Institute of Stress. The first step to managing...

The Primate Committee Thinking Experiment…It started with a cage containing 5 apes. Inside the cage they hung a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long an ape went to the stairs and started to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touched the stairs,...

I grew up mostly an average to small size weight, but if I am honest, and my sister would tell on me if I wasn’t, I always had a larger backside. When I was younger I could eat anything I wanted and pretty much anything I wanted with the exception of milk products....

The difference between success and failure; growth or decline; is often found in the quality of the communication we have in our relationships. In fact miscommunication is often the culprit of many problems that are found more often than the lack of communication. The...

Have you ever noticed that some people seem older than their years and others seem so much younger? Why do you think that is? Genetics? Lifestyle? Maybe who they spend their time with? I’m sure all of those things play a role in our aging process, in fact studies show...

“Turning Problems into Opportunity”“Would you believe me if I told you that there is a town in the American south that built a monument to the boll weevil? The boll weevil is a tiny, terrifying, little beetle. Its larvae can destroy a cotton crop faster than you can...

What Does Your Ideal Life Look Like?I remember the first time someone asked me that. I thought, how would I know?! I’m certainly not sure if this is it or not because I’ve only ever lived this life. I, like most people, forgot how to dream. Remember what that was...