When you get to be my age the chances are that you are an optimist, or you wouldn't have gotten to this wonderful point in your life. You have to believe that the best is yet to come, or drown your thoughts and emotions in melancholy remembrances of events past. I prefer to look to the future to get my kicks.
I think a review of what people in their fifties and sixties plus can still excel at is in order as a ego booster. That's right, even people in the new middle aged group (fifties through sixties plus) need to have their egos massaged once in a while otherwise we might get rusty and become unhinged. Now there is a truly terrible thought. Where are my painkillers when I might need them? I am afraid I may be having a senior moment.
Let's get on to the review of what we excel at before I forget.
1. We definitely have more experience than anyone else except for people older than ourselves if such people actually exist. 2. We usually make shrewder political decisions than the starry eyed youth who believe in anyone who is long on dreams and general concepts, and short on details and execution. 3. We have learned over time to trust our instincts when making major decisions rather than relying on the pundits or so called wise men. 4. We have learned to rely on our faith in God to help us get through the tough times, and this has given us the strength to be tough enough to rise to the occasion. 5. We have learned to rely on our spouses as the only ones we can really trust when the going gets rough. We have learned that they are our best friends. 6. We can also feel good that we have the type of constitution that has provided us with the physical well being to get this far in our lives, and can be counted on to help us travel farther down the road if we just remember to take care of ourselves. 7. We have reached a point in our lives when we realize that there is beauty all around us, but that life is not pain free. We have learned to take the good with the bad.
How many people can claim to have learned and be experienced in such worthwhile life experiences? Perhaps it is our job to provide this knowledge to the younger generation if they will only listen. Perhaps it is up to us to provide a sense of stability to our Nation as we move forward to a brighter future. Maybe we have to spend more time with our grandchildren teaching them what we know. They are after all our link to immortality. It is through future generations, and how well we have been able to teach them what we know that we will live forever.
Who said the glass is half empty. We are just beginning the best part of the journey, and hopefully everyone joining us will have a thirst for knowledge. *****
Many people use the word lousy to describe their lives. This could well be the result of a major failure in life that has affected their thinking and outlook on life it self. It is only too human to magnify your failures and remain down in the dumps for long periods of time. Just one mistake can be so magnified in the mind that we see ourselves as only a product of that mistake. Imagine a clean white piece of paper on which we spill one drop of ink? Is the blot of ink the only value of that paper?
Unfortunately that is how we tend to see things sometimes. We forget about the rest of the clean sheet and only focus our attention on the spot of ink. It is the same with how some of us see our own lives. One major mistake can point all our attention towards it, and we begin thinking that fail is all we can do. And given the power of the human mind that is exactly what we may well turn into. Thinking that you are going to fail will no doubt make you fail, and then you will have two blots on that piece of paper to think about, if you know what that means. This turns your failures into a vicious circle, and the snowball effect makes sure you keep getting lower and lower self esteem.
If you are in such a cycle of thought, you need to get out of it immediately in order to get your life back together. The answer is simple. Remember, it was negative thinking that got you into the trouble that you are in, and it is the exact opposite of that that will get you out of that cycle of thought, positive thinking. Positive attitudes can turn a failure into a victory.
Many a time people become their own worst enemies by invoking negative thoughts. Stop speaking negatively to your self. When you force positive thoughts into your mind, you will begin to see your life take a turn around and that negative cycle of thought turns into a positive cycle. Negative thinking only lets you see the flaws in every area of your life, and thanks to this you miss out on every opportunity that life may present you with. When you begin thinking positive, the reverse is true - you only see the opportunities and do not take notice of the flaws that could hold you back. You walk in confidence and with pride, and are now tuned in to success at whatever it is that you may plan.
Turn your life around by getting realistic. You know it is not true that one failure means that you will always fail at whatever you try, so stop listening to that voice in your head which tells you that.
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