Elder Bob's Guide To Better Living After 50
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If you’re looking for a way to quickly up your fashion game, your style, your look, then this article is just for you. Best of all, these tips let you to up your style game quite inexpensively. Let’s get started! Have you ever noticed that the number three seems to be everywhere in fashion and …
Would you like the power to recover quickly from any setback that comes your way? To grow stronger instead of weaker with the challenges you face. Discover here how to become Anti-Fragile.
Solo travel opportunities abound for everyone, not just seniors. However, without the right mindset and focus, we often either don’t see them, or if we do see them and wish we could go, we are held back by our fears. Here’s how to shift your focus, and open up the worldwide solo travel opportunities that …
We’re all a bit like 4th of July fireworks. Which kind are you? Have a fun read and see.
Do you ever feel less than whole? Like there is a better, stronger, more powerful you somewhere inside? But you dare not unleash the beast for fear of ??? Todd Herman, in his new book, “The Alter Ego Effect” knows just how to help you be all that you wish to be.
Improvements in technology often have unintended consequences. We make one thing better and something else worse. Could the bright new LED police cruiser lights which were meant to make officers safer actually be killing them instead?
The armed Taliban soldier boarded the bus in October of 2012 and angrily shouted, “Tell me who is Malala!”. When 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai bravely raised her hand, hepromptly shot her in the head, nearly killing her. Who would have known that day would be the foundation of success rather than failure? Afterward, Malala knew she …
Elder and I clashed again this morning. We switch sides often on this issue of exercise. Today it was cold and raining steadily outside. This usually indicates I’ll be at low energy for the day. I’m rather like a solar panel, when the sun is shining outside I get fully charged; I’m bright and happy. …
I was 7 so there wasn’t much I could do except rebel further by dragging it out and letting the carrots grow even colder. As usual, my defiance only made it worse for me. “You’ll sit at the table until you finish your carrots!” mother admonished. Lest you think, “You selfish brat! Carrots aren’t so …
“We might all get stung to death!” News agencies in the 1970’s terrified Americans with reports of “Killer Bees”. The attack was imminent they said, only a matter of when they would reach you, not if. Radio, TV, and newspapers accounts assured us that this super-aggressive African hybrid bee would soon invade from our Southern …
Problems suck! “Damn toaster,” I cursed this morning. “It never makes the toast right!” “Who keeps turning down the setting?” “Why is there never any room on the counter?” “Why is it so cold outside still? It’s Springtime!” “Where’s the peanut butter? Who keeps moving it!” I woke up cranky today. Started ranting.(to myself as …
Every day begins the same for Elderbob…how about you? Rise with the sun. Visit the loo. Have breakfast. Predictability is a “big thing” with The Elder. Disrupt any one of the three and he’s convinced the day is doomed. With every odd or bad thing that happens that day I’ll here, “See. I told you …
Yesterday I invited my daughters out to lunch. We had a great time too. Good food. Good conversation. Loads of laughs. They’re great. The food was is good, but the Japanese Hibatchi and Sushi menu is limited in selections I enjoy. Admittedly, I’m a somewhat picky eater. Its a 30 minute drive too. Despite these …
It’s better to live longer, right? If you’re happy and healthy.Better to die later, much later if possible? Seems everywhere you look there’s a new productbeing offered for sale that will improve ourlife, our body, our mind. We can be healthier, have more energy, be less fat, build muscles, be smarter, be more focused, more …
Former Chrysler Chairman, Lee Iacocca, once told me (in a book) that,“You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but if you can’t communicate them to other people, what’s the value?” (I’m paraphrasing Lee, ‘cuz “The Elder” forgets a lot, but that’s the gist of it) I was very smart at the time (or …
Many people die each year, and many more suffer needless and permanent physical impairment because they fail to recognize and seek immediate treatment for the subtle and sneaky symptoms of stroke. Do you know all the signs?
I used to be one person. Until I turned 50. Then my body was abducted by an alien! I call him, “The Elder”. Here’s what happened: One fateful night, I was awakened from my slumber at 3am by a strange, nagging sensation. I’d felt this feeling before, but never in the middle of the night. …