YES!
All you need to do is think ahead;
Turn your thoughts away from gloom and dread.
Every time you rise up out of bed,
Follow Age Esteem’s path with every tread.
Don’t say “No, I can’t”, say “YES, I will!” instead.
Written by Alexandra Taylor after the chapter “Personal Talk” in the book
AgeEsteem: Growing A Positive Attitude Toward Aging
by Bonnie Lou Fatio
This is your time to bloom with Age Esteem!
Flowers are bursting forth with the first hint of warmth and sunshine as Spring becomes reality.
Age Esteem is a frame of mind, a way of life. This is your time to bloom with an Age Esteem positive attitude!
Bonnie Fatio
Each day of this new year will bring new opportunities and experiences to be experienced and savored.
Do you look forward to each day?
One of my favorite AgeEsteem mentors and friends was Doris Blunt. Doris was a woman of amazing inner faith and strength. She always seemed to be bubbling over with happiness and interest. Yet she had buried two husbands, both of whom she had accompanied through Alzheimer’s in their last years.
When I asked Doris how she remained so enthusiastic and happy she offered me the following secrets to her happiness.
These are simple yet powerful pointers for each of us to enhance our age esteem and positive attitudes to live happier lives. Let’s look forward to each day!
Bonnie Fatio
My heart overflows with love and gratitude. Life is truly a blessing. I am ever thankful for the loved ones in my life: a loving husband, daughter, son-in-law, two precious granddaughters, sisters and spouses, cousins, and numerous friends whom I treasure. There is no time for wallowing in complaints or disappointments. We are too busy living, loving and learning with a positive attitude.
Oh yes, lesser experiences and relationships are put in our paths, but that is also part of living, loving and learning. Hurdles are put there to teach us vital lessons and to show us new dimensions of life. They push us to become a better person.
People with Age Esteem know the value of living, loving and learning with a positive attitude. Thank you for sharing your Age Esteem in the way you live, love and learn.
Rejoice!
Let your voice
Be the clue
To the you
Of your Choice.
Written by Alexandra Taylor after the chapter “Rejoice” in the book
AgeEsteem: Growing A Positive Attitude Toward Aging
by Bonnie Lou Fatio
Bubbles and Kisses!
The ones float away
The others might miss us,
But each in its way
Is Life’s miraculousness
making special each day.
Written for Age Esteem by Alexandra Taylor after the story “Bubbles and Kisses”
in AgeEsteem: Growing A Positive Attitude Toward Aging, book and CD
by Bonnie Lou Fatio
Diane Smith, 53
What is Age Esteem? When I first saw Bonnie Fatio,s book AgeEsteem: Growing A Positive Attitude Toward Aging I thought it was about aging. I thought it’s going to tell me how to age gracefully and this it great!
What I worry most about aging is aches and pains. I’ve never been sick a day in my life, but when I turned 50 I started feeling some aches and pains and that’s one of my concerns. And you know I look in the mirror and I see wrinkles and I start buying eye creams and stuff. I have beauty products to prevent aging. The reason is that it’s probably been on my mind since I was 25. I’m a believer in prevention.
Diane’s tips: I stay active. I have friends. I love working in my garden. I feel good working in the garden. I’m strong enough to do things and have the energy. I feel good. I have a cup of coffee every morning. I read my Bible every day. It gives me inspiration and I look at my life and I look at where I’ve been and where I am now and I’m thankful. I thank God. If God doesn’t bless me with anything else, I’m blessed. Yes, I’m totally blessed. I have a lot of great friends. I have a wonderful husband whose a good friend. That makes it easy. I have a daughter. I have grandchildren. I carry their picture around and when I look at them I think what a wonderful blessing. I’m just thankful for what I have and I don’t worry about what I don’t have.
People with age esteem recognize that they have choices, that they are masters of their own life. They may not be able to control what happens to them all of the time or even most of the time, but they take control over how they act or react to what happens.
Age esteemers know they can choose to see what happens as an opportunity or as a catastrophe. They can choose to be a victim, or they can choose to take action to move beyond the problem, to learn from it and benefit from it.
Bonnie Fatio
Do you have an attitude of gratitude?
People with Age Esteem express gratitude. Age Esteemers know the importance of not only feeling thankful, but also expressing appreciation and gratitude for what they have and what others do for them. They choose to recognize the blessings of each day, no matter how great or small.
Bonnie Fatio
People with age esteem have a positive attitude. Studies show that people who enjoy life with a positive attitude live longer and happier lives. This is not to say that they don’t have aches and pains like anyone else. They simple choose to take a different view of life. Rather than focus on their pains, they chose to concentrate on what goes well and to develop their interests. They are engaged in living.
Age Esteemers know that when we focus on the brighter side of life, we draw other positive people and opportunities to us.
Bonnie Fatio
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