10 Effective Ways to Stay Young While You Are Growing Old

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ~Amos Bronson Alcott

 Don’t worry about your age, you can always stay young. Here are the things that you can do to stay youthful and feel great about yourself:

 1. Live life fully: The most important thing is to occupy your time with meaningful things to do such as taking up a new hobby, participating in a community project, or starting a blog. Avoid emptiness and find new challenges in life.

 2. Physically active: To stay lively, alert, and energetic is to stay active. Exercise regularly and walk often. A sedentary lifestyle is bad for your health and makes you lazy. Go outdoors; get the sunshine and fresh air.

 3. Get connected with younger people: Young people are full of zest and enthusiasm. Get involved with youngsters and be influenced by their liveliness and behave like one. You are instantly young again.

 4. Sleep well: A good night’s sleep is able to rejuvenate your body, regain your energy, release your tension, and repair damages are done to your body during the day. To sleep well is to sustain your youthfulness.

 5. Be happy: The best thing to do is to tell yourself to be cheerful when you wake up in the morning. Start a new day on a bright and sunny note. Greet people you meet, smile at them, and laugh often. When you want to be happy, just be happy.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. ~ Michael Pritchard

6. Eat right: Be strong and energetic by eating nutritiously. Have more fruits and vegetables and drink plenty of water. Avoid junk food and give up bad habits like drinking and smoking.

 7. Positive mental attitude: Be confident and feel good about yourself. Be hopeful and optimistic about life. Look to each new day eagerly and anxiously.

 8. Live now: One effective way to live life fully is to live in the moment. Like what you do and enjoy the process of doing it. Happiness is living here and now, not in the past or the future. Do not allow your mind to wander about, be here and now and involved fully in what you are doing.

 9. Keep learning: Learning new things in life such as blogging is to keep your brain sharp, active, and alert. Be flexible and welcome changes in life. There is never a dull moment when there is always something new every day to learn.

 10. Peace of mind: Fill with heart with love and be loved. This is the way to get peace of mind. Peace of mind is also about counting your blessings and be contented. Live the way you want, and like the way you live. Just be yourself.

 You are growing old in age but you can always stay young at heart and in spirits.