STOP!

How many times do you stop automatically when you see a stop sign?  You don’t even think about it.  Your reaction is automatic.  You stop!

Wouldn’t it be great if we had little stop signs that would flash in other aspects of our life?  I’m thinking of a stop sign flashing when negative thoughts come to mind such as “I am too old for that; I am not good enough; I am too skinny or fat”.

And what about those moments of procrastination when we put something off until later or talk ourselves out of purchasing something we can afford and that would make our lives easier or more pleasurable simply ‘because’.

Let’s add lack of self-confidence while we are at it.

All of these are the antipathy of age esteem.  You can learn to erase these negatives from your life and to grow your age esteem.

• Picture a STOP sign.  Use the one pictured above as an example.
• Every time you catch yourself saying something negative either out loud or in your mind, picture the STOP sign.
• Stop that thought!

It is as easy as that.

Bonnie Fatio

Train Your Brain

Train your brain to make the most

Of Life, and even try to boast

About the talents you have shown –

The ones unique to you alone.

Train your brain and Lo and Behold

You’ll never think you’re growing old.

Think Young, and very soon you’ll seem

To exemplify Age Esteem!

 Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Time Goes By

Time goes by with timeless speed,

Helping to fulfill each need.

Gratefully we try to be

Kind and true, in harmony

With our gifts and specialness

Holding on to youthfulness!

Fill your time with vim-like steam

Bubbling out with Age Esteem

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Go And Grow

If you walk a foot

Or go a mile,

It is nice to put

On a Big smile!

Mileage in both feet and years

Can reduce unwanted fears.

Move on with bright anticipation

Beneath sun or precipitation!

Actively you’ll go and grow,

Spending years in Life aglow!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Thank You

Thank you for the days I’ve had,

Thank you for the days to come;

Thank you when I have been glad,

Thank you for not staying glum.

Thank you for my gathering years,

Thank you for my heritage,

Thank you for diminished fears

I’m sure, I’m sane: I’m saxifrage*!

 Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

*An esteemed new word for the AgeEsteem blog.

One Of Those Days

Everybody has those days:

A kind of parting of the ways

When nothing seems to be all right –

You think you are a sorry sight

Wrinkles show, your waist is fat

What’s to like in all of that?

Shake your finger at those moods

Think of all your aptitudes!

You’re NOT a perfect “mixing bowl”

You ARE a one and unique soul.

So, smile and let that be your choice:

Revive, Restore, Relive, Rejoice!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Middle Age

 Middle age, that’s how we can

Be somewhere in between.

Not young. Not old, the spectrum span!

And either way esteemed!

There is no age to attitudes,

You are the way you feel.

So down with ancient platitudes

And let your “age bells” peal!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Life’s Garden

Growing old (or growing young!)

The keywords are “to grow”.

Hum or sing the songs you sung

Those ageless years ago!

Growth of mind and spirits will

Enrich each precious day,

Plant life’s garden path until

You are your own bouquet.

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Why?

Why is it that we are taught to think

That growing old is past the brink,

And that the rest is all down hill

Without a means to prove one’s will?

Age Esteem will return your pride

And put a ZIP into your stride

So each day try to do your best:

Aim for esteem, pizzazz and zest!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

It’s Raining!

A friend who I was meeting for lunch phoned and said, “It’s raining!  What shall we do?”

Such a wonderful question, “What shall we do?”  – Sing in the rain?  Dance through puddles?  Make mud pies? Collect worms?  Breathe in the odors of wet grass and trees?  There are so many wonderful possibilities!

Then the timber of her voice registered.  She was actually hesitating to go out because of the rain.

I pretended not to understand.  She was probably concerned about me getting wet feet.

“I love to walk in the rain”, I assured her, and left it at that.  She will never know that I literally skipped out the front door to greet the rain.

Yes!  It is raining!

Bonnie Fatio