How to Change Your Attitude About Your Age

Paula’s Video Blog with the WIN Founder and CEO, Paula Fellingham

Paula: Hello and thanks for joining me I wanted to talk today about age. You
know I’ve heard long ago age is a matter of mind if you don’t mind it
doesn’t matter. There are many people who have a little reticence to talk
about their age but I just told mine freely because you know you could add
up my children’s ages and you’ve added a few more years to that and you
could figure it out but I’m 61 and I was okay with my age till about 55 and
then I started to think oh this is getting a little bit older than I feel like I am
I really felt like I stopped at 33 but now that my oldest child is 37.

In fact on her birthday last week she said mom I’m older when you
stopped. I said that’s right but I wanted to talk to those who have a little
bit of challenge with age and of course we’re not oblivious to the fact that
you know as we age and we get more wrinkles and we’re a little bit slower
than we were we can’t jump as high or move as fast and we think gosh this
is not as much. I’m not liking this very much and yet we again I talked in
our last video about our attitude. Its all really a matter of attitude.

I have seen some vibrant fabulous wonderful people who are 98, 99, 100
years old and then I’ve known others who are in their 60s and 70s who act
like they’re 100 I think what makes the difference and I think that the
difference is truly in the way you look at it that age is a matter of mind
that if you don’t mind it doesn’t matter and you can continue to be that
vibrant person giving yourself this wonderful self talk. You know I maybe
getting older but everyday I’m getting better that’s when I say to myself
and that’s okay because I say to myself now I just shared it with you.

But its exciting to know that we have choices relative to how we deal with
our age. We can be sad and actually make our self act older than you know
than we really are our weekend truly try to keep that youthfulness and that
energy and that cheerfulness in our heart and no matter how many
wrinkles we get and they’re coming faster and faster now that the key is
truly our attitude and how and what we’re doing to make ourselves feel
younger and one of the things that I would like to suggest is that when
your life is in service of others when your thinking about others.

And when you’re focused on how you can help others how you can
strengthen others then truly you’re not you can’t be thinking about two
things at the exact same time you can’t be thinking about you and you
can’t really be you thinking about how sorry you are that you’re getting
older, that you’re getting a little slower than you were before and I would
like to suggest that as ou feel your life with thoughts about how you can
help others be happier. Being others centered instead of self centered that
that will make a huge difference as we age. One of my grandsons left me a
message that I put up on my refrigerator he says you know you are really
good for as old as you are and I wasn’t sure what that meant it was his
little 7 year old way of saying you know that he noticed that even though I
am older that I can still be there for him and I love that he said you’re
really good for as old as you are.

Thank you Nathan that makes me feel good. I think but you know its just a
wonderful comment that I have about being others entered where you’re
focus is and to get out and just remember that age is a matter of mind if
you don’t mind that doesn’t matter. Have a wonderful day and I hope
everyday of yours is going to be filled with WINs bye-bye for now.