Life Is Delicious!: Enjoy Getting Older! It Can Be Fun!

By Mary Luise

Mary Luise is a senior citizen who has discovered that life as an older person can be quite delicious! She had a vision from the time she was in her twenties of what being older might be likea beautiful vision that anyone could look forward to with great enthusiasm and delight!

Mary Luise breaks out of some of the old patterns and molds that have surrounded the lives and beliefs of older people and invites her readers to take a brand new, cutting-edge approach to life with a healthier, bolder perspective in mind. She does this by leaving behind things in life that are not serving a person very well and offering fresh and inspiring new perspectives.

What is left behind is replaced with new expectations of things that are lovely, good, healthy, happy, freeing, exciting, and powerful. She writes that it takes far less energy to be enjoying life than to be living a life that is not enjoyable because enjoying life is the natural, normal intention of living! Her ideas make new energy available for a dynamic life!

Mary Luise offers ideas and perspectives that have worked well and continue to work well in her life. She writes of change, music, love, forgiveness, gratefulness, dreaming new dreams, and setting new goals and so many more subjects that all lead the reader to a more deeply fulfilling existence!

Her desire is for her readers to be free to enjoy the same pleasures and satisfactions of life that she is enjoying in her older years. After all, health, happiness, joy, loving relationships and having fun are for every age!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504363068

Mary Luise

Mary Luise has earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is a licensed clinical social worker. www.maryluise.com

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Life is Delicious!

ENJOY GETTING OLDER! IT CAN BE FUN!

MARY LUISE

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Copyright © 2016 Mary Luise.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-6307-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-6306-8 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 08/01/2016

Dedication

To: Nancy and Kathryn, my daughters

I love and encourage them, and they love and encourage me!

They are beautiful people who add the spicy flavors that make my life so delicious!

Contents

Introduction

Be Bolder as You Grow Older!

What is Retirement Anyway?

Change

Where Is My Typewriter?

Think About Your Thinking!

Life is not a Spectator Sport!

Seminar? Workshop? Coffee with a Friend?

Your Own Health Team

Worrying Skills Are Helpful!

Concern for Friends and Family

Thank You!

No Excuses

To Stress or Not to Stress

Just Keep Moving!

Eat, Drink and Be… A Good Listener!

Who Upset my Apple Cart?

Play More Love Songs!

Listen so others will love to talk to you!

We are all ok!

Judge and Jury

Don’t Drink the Poison of Unforgiveness!

Love and Death

Mirror, Mirror

Long journey. Short talk.

Introduction

MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS BOOK

We all gravitate to things that are alive and growing and blooming! We love to see people who have developed parts of themselves that make it easy for us to not only enjoy who they are but also because they help us realize who we can be!

This happened to me when I was in my twenties. I was casually flipping through a Life Magazine, and a picture caught my attention. It was a picture of a woman on a morning walk, wearing shorts, gym shoes, a sweater tied around her waist, and she appeared very athletic, vibrant and trim. Her face almost seemed to shine and come alive on the page. Because of her gray hair, my guess at her age would have been, more or less, fifty years old. Being in my twenties, I was more familiar with the ages of younger people than of older people. At my age then, fifty years old seemed very, very old! I smile now as I look back at the younger people I see who are in their fabulous fifties.

Getting back to the magazine, my attention was then drawn to the article under the woman’s picture. I read the article and was greatly surprised! I discovered this woman was in her nineties, and she took these same walks every day! Seventy years separated our ages! Seventy! She was such a shining example to me of someone fully living life every day of her life. She was up and out in the world creating the life she wanted to have! My first thought was: I want to be just like her when I am in my nineties! She was a messenger of hope! I am sure that the woman is dead now, but that picture of her and her story are still very much alive in my mind, even today, because it refreshes and strengthens me and reminds me of my own possibilities! It was no accident that this picture caught my attention! The woman’s message seemed to be addressed to me. At least it had a profound impact on my life. Who knows why this happens?

We are all surrounded every day by images not only in the natural realm but also in the people and places we see and the immense amount of visual stimulation available to us. We can probably be pulled in any direction we allow ourselves to go. It takes a lot of courage to say No! to things and to look for what really fits best into the thoughts and lives we want to live.

The truth is that every picture we see and every thought we think actually has a very powerful and dynamic impact on our lives. Every one of them. I have to guard my mind continually as to what I see and hear. The good news is that with all these options, it is always my own decision to choose what to remember and what to keep in my mind. No one else can make those decisions for me. We all choose how much noise or how much peace we allow into our minds and lives. That’s a great deal of responsibility, but I look at it this way: I have a tremendous wealth of power over and in my own brain! No one else lives in my brain. I occupy it all. It’s one area where I have full authority.

I like to think thoughts