How often are we disappointed in ourselves because we didn’t have the discipline to do the things we needed to do to get the results we wanted. We stopped going to the gym. We fell off our weight loss program. Oh yes, we were motivated. We just didn’t have the discipline to follow through.
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Here’s a question for you. If you took two brand new airplanes, fresh out of the factory, and stored one in the hanger to spend its days in rest and quiet and never let it get off the ground, while the other one started flying and flew for the next 50 years, which would be more airworthy at the end of those fifty years? The one that rested for fifty years, or the one that flew a tough schedule for 50 years and was fueled and maintained the way it was designed?
Isn’t “Aging Youthfully” what a lot of us are trying to accomplish? We want to avoid the stereotypical vision of “getting old”. We don’t want to become stooped over and shuffle along as we walk, head down and looking at the floor. Aging is stereotypically waking up in the morning with aches and pains, hard to get out of bed, very little to look forward to for the day except maybe a [another] doctor’s appointment.
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