Gratitude Is My Attitude

When I was born,

In a Hotel Suite,

With Mother, Father, and brother Pete,

Our cast of four was thus complete,

An absolutely perfect feat!

All was perfect, or so it seemed,

And then we grew and grew much older

(We’d not yet heard of Age Esteem!)

each year braver, brighter, bolder.

Now I am in a Twilight zone,

My future’s not as long as yore,

The family’s gone, I’m left alone

But positive there’s much in store:

Depending on my attitude

And facing Life with Gratitude!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Face The World With Gratitude

Thank you!

Merci!

Danke Schoen!

(Depending on the language learned)

Thank you for each day one lives,

Thank you for the Joy Life gives.

Thank you for all those to love,

Thank you for the stars above,

And also for what Aging brings

To each and every living thing!

Face the world with Gratitude,

Esteem a brand new attitude,

So when it’s time to say “good Night”,

Give thanks for one more day of light.

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Age Esteem Fashion

If fashion

Is your passion

And staying smart

Becomes an art,

Then show that style

With a Big smile

And skirt your troubles from your heart.

Don your oldest and best garments

(Beaming at their vintage seams),

Dressing up by adding “charments”

And looking young with AgeEsteem.

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Happy Birthday!

A special Poem for Cousins
And SHE who’s my dear friend:
She keeps my mind a-buzzin
As through our lives we wend.
Hers is a BIG, BIG Birthday,
So Big I’m all agog!:
Speechless, verseless, quite “bouche-bée”
No words, nor time for blogs.
Corny though it might be,
Her real Kernel of truth:
Since she was a baby
She’s found eternal youth!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Do You Hate To Fly?

Do You Hate To Fly?

If you find you have to fly

Try to think about the sky

Look, its almost always Blue

Clear and Bright – that could be You!

Young or old, each “flight” is new

If clouds be gray, what to do?

Just take the journey anyway –

Be happy for another day.

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Alexandra Taylor, our Age Esteem Poet, spends several winter months in the land of her childhood roots, Palm Beach, Florida. Fortunately she is en route back home to Geneva, Switzerland. – Thus the topic of the poem.

We look forward to a new flow of verse to keep our rhythmic age esteem alive with rhyme and smiles. 

On today's AgeEsteem Telesummit, Dr. Jen Palmer ND shared five factors to keep our minds sharp and our bodies healthy as we age. Since she gave such precise content, I am listing the five factors here.

Note that since there are so many options when shopping for supplements, she recommended specific high quality, cost effective products that she uses herself. 

She says, "…There are certainly other great products out there. I recommend purchasing these from NEEDS.com. NEEDS also offers free wellness consultations and can help you with a variety of issues."

The 5 factors are:

1.  A healthy lifestyle that includes a positive attitude, healthy foods and  regular exercise.

2.  Super Omega 3 gems Fish Oil by Carlson, NEEDS code: CAL-6231-250

3.  Doctors Best Curcumin featuring Meriva NEEDS code: DBS-6041-060

4.  Magnesium for the brain- Neuromag by Life Extension, NEEDS code: LEF-5089 and Magnesium citrate by NutriNeeds, NEEDS code: NNN-5014-100

5.  VITAMIN B12 methylcobalamin chewables by Life Extension, NEEDS code: LEF-5033

Dr. Jen works with NEEDS but does not make money with these recommendations. She will offer you a free personal wellness consultation, call 800.634.1380 (USA) and leave a message that you heard Dr. Jen Palmer speak on the Age Esteem telesummit, and she will call you back. Our listeners from other countries can reach her by email at purenutrition@msn.com.

Bonnie Fatio

You are a gift to all generations!

A dynamic 40+ career woman who is highly successful in her field of work and loves her job shared the following advice with me.

When she heard about AgeEsteem her reaction was, “What a terrific idea!  Older people need to recognize what a wonderful asset and resource they are.  They seem to shy away from younger people, yet we all need each other.”

She went on to explain, “When I first started to attend conferences, my parents told me to always seek out the oldest person.  That person was sure to know more than my peers.  So I did.  I sought out and befriended older people.  I learned so much more that way.  In fact I owe these people much of my professional success and understanding of human relations.”

So do not shy away from people of other generations.  Seek them out, speak with them and learn from them. Share your wisdom and age esteem.

Bonnie Fatio

Dr. Jen Palmer, 44, Florida

I love the term Age Esteem because it has such a positive image. I have always hated the term “anti-aging”, because it implies the natural process of aging is a negative event that should be avoided and fought against. That creates an unreasonable pressure to try to look younger than we are, and to even pretend we are younger than we are.

Personally, I believe we should embrace the gifts that come with getting older and consider life to be a great adventure. For me, every decade gets better and better! Age Esteem brings to mind confidence, wisdom and strength. The term is a great reminder as to how we should feel, at any age, especially as women.

My personal conerns? For the most part, I look forward to getting older because life gets better every year! I think as long as we have our mental and physical health, we can create a great quality of life for ourselves whether we are 30 or 80. So my biggest concerns would be losing my memory, or having difficulty walking, because those would present challenges (but not roadblocks) for living the kind of life that I imagine.

Jen's tips: My focus is on creating a lifestyle that promotes health for myself and my husband, while still enjoying some splurges here and there. We try to get a good dose of activity and exercise through the week, eat lots of veggies and whole foods, and take supplements. It’s all about balance and moderation. And have fun, because that keeps us youthful and positive about life.

We have plenty of inspiration because we live in an area of Florida that has a large senior population, and the majority of the people we meet are fit and happy. Every day, I see people in their 70s and 80s playing tennis, walking, and swimming- sometimes better and farther than I can! So my assumption is that I will be one of those happy, healthy seniors when the time comes, as long as I take care of myself.

Dr. Jen Palmer is a Naturopathic Doctor ProAgingLiving partnering with AgeEsteem.