50plus Life Design

Health Wealth and Happiness for the Over 50's

It isn't much to ask for in life is it? Health Wealth and Happiness? - and by the age of 50 you would think we might have found the way.  Most of us reading this will have reason to be thankful for what we have in life but it is the human condition to ask for more.

If you are man aged 50 this year you can expect to live another 32 years and a woman enjoying her 50th birthday in 2010 can expect to see in the new year for 2045. The gap is closing by the way – men's health for some reason is improving faster than women's and both sexes can expect to live three extra years longer for every ten years they live!

I don't know about you but I only want those extra years if I am fit, financially secure and happy to be here. So what are you and I going to do to make sure we enjoy 30 plus years of good health, abundant wealth and happiness?

Health is the key

I don't know if you agree but it seems likely to me that of these three wishes wealth and happiness will be far more likely to come our way if we enjoy good health.  I am not talking about early death here just feeling great and having enough energy to enjoy each day to the full.

The greatest health risk by far for both men and women between 50 and 65 is cancer. After 65 it switches to heart disease and for both conditions experts say that the biggest single thing we can do to reduce the risk of both is to maintain a healthy body weight.

Of course we are so well informed today that we all know this. We all know that changing our diet to reduce red and processed meat, taking regular physical activity, eating more fresh fruit and vegetables and enjoying alcohol in moderation is the key to a full, active and long life.  So why is obesity the fastest growing cause of ill health worldwide today? 

After diet the second greatest risk factor for cancer is our day by day environment at work and at play.
Smoking tobacco, the sun, radiation, asbestos and workplace risks all play their part. And of course some of these can be avoided and some can't. Scientists are agreed though that they contribute to the risk and if you want to improve your chances you should look at your life style and take the measures you can take.
It's not rocket science – we are eating too much of the wrong foods - our bad habits and sedentary life styles are killing us, slowly and painfully. For many our old age will be slumped in a chair for years on end wearing a diaper and being fed slop on a spoon. Do you want that?  I don't.  We know what to do so why don't we do it?

There are things we can do. By getting the right information and with the right inspiration we can enjoy good health, financial and emotional abundance well into a comfortable old age.

When it comes to health wealth and happiness I am like Oliver Twist 'Please Sir can I have some more'

Best wishes from Tony

Johnny Barnes knows how to be a Ray of Sunshine

Are you one of those people that smiles at strangers?  Do you chat to the person next to you in the supermarket queue – not about the price of eggs or the latest disaster news, but ‘happy chat’?

In many parts of the world talking to strangers is natural and part of the culture but in big cities, particularly, it can be seen as downright loony.  I was on a train in London, England a while back with around 10 people in our compartment.  As I boarded and took my seat I looked around me to catch the eye of anyone who wanted a chat and smiled at the only other person in the carriage who was making eye contact.  He said “You’re not from around here are you?”  This was not a reference to the color of my skin or some other distinguishing feature.  It was just because I had smiled!  They’re not used to that on commuter trains in London.  I must admit I do attract some suspicion because of my natural tendency to wish to communicate with a smile.

My New Year Gift to You

What a brilliant New Year gift I have for you today.  I've been reading this book avidly and it has such wisdom and fantastic ideas about how to set goals and move forward in your life. 

I've been to dozens of seminars and workshops on these subjects and I've finally found a system that really works holistically.  It's not just about doubling your income; it's about doubling the enjoyment you have in every area of your life.

This is a high quality hardback book that you can use for yourself or give as a gift.  The only cost is the postage, so please click here to take a look and let me know how it helped you.

Bee

Unusual Christmas Presents | Stop Smoking NOW!

It's that time of year again when our thoughts are already turning to New Year Resolutions and many smokers who want to stop smoking wait until the 1st January to 'turn over a new leaf'.  Why not give someone the gift of life or, if you are a smoker, give yourself the gift of life, good health and freedom from that debilitating habit?  Planning now will help you be ready to quit in the new year.

I know all about planning to quit because I run one of the most successful smoking cessation clinics in the country and our happy clients persuaded me to put my entire "Stop Smoking Now" programme on a 4 x CD / download set to assist their friends and relatives who couldn't attend our clinic at the hospital for help.

Preparation and understanding : they are the keys to stop smoking successfully.  Just a few minutes listening to your CD each day prior to your quit date will help you to stop smoking permanently and easily.

Click here for more information.  Start your preparation NOW and you'll make this year's New Year's resolution the easiest one you've ever achieved.

Happy New Year to you.

Bee

Unusual Christmas Presents | Lounging in Luxury

It is the most exciting morning of the year, Last night it was ‘Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire’ but as the family drag you out of a snug duvet on the big morning – Brrrrr!. Opening the Christmas presents can be a chilly time. That’s when this Xmas Pressie will be a real wow!.  With a super soft wraparound chenille robe any woman will be happily lounging in luxury while hubby and children tear into off those carefully wrapped parcels.  Here’s a perfect present for any woman who feels the cold. 

If you’re like me you hate the winter cold and we can’t keep putting up the central heating to compensate – especially if other family members are warm enough.  So why not take the opportunity to “nest” and snuggle up in a super soft luxury chenille dressing gown that promises to really take the chill out of the season!  I haven’t taken mine off in the house since it arrived this week; it’s sooo cosy.  It’s warmer and thicker than any dressing gown I’ve ever had and what’s more, it doesn’t flap around my calves, leaving my ankles to freeze.  They are even made in extra long length for tall girls.

So wrap up warm, turn the heating down a notch, curl up with a cocoa and enjoy a good film.
 
These amazing dressing gowns are made in exclusive super lux chenille – you won’t believe the quality and your Sister, Mum, Grandma or Wife will thank you forever. 

Wrap up warm

Bee

Inspiring Christmas Presents | Sonic Producer music software

The first of our Inspiring Christmas Presents series is here!

Do you know an aspiring DJ or musician? If you do here is this year’s MUST HAVE Christmas gift.

Maybe your spouse or grandchild spend all their time in the garage enjoying drums percussion, hip hop beats, rap instrumentals or some other music production?  Would you really like to WOW them with the most amazing Christmas present ever?  Well, just look what we’ve found for you … two of the most amazing music software packages around. 

Sonic Producer is our first choice.  It’s the ultimate music production software for amateurs who want to have some serious fun!  It has many of the music mixing essentials not seen in other online beat making software websites.   

Staying Sassy after 50

Here's a great recipe for staying vital and alive after the big 50!  

MBS presenter, Madison King shares her secrets with you:

1. Have the courage to embrace change and regularly re evaluate your goals - don't get stuck or allow people's opinions to be your prison ..... if you want to wear purple, orange and pink together, do it. Find and honour the REAL you. Allow others to do the same - don't judge.

2. Retain your curiosity, enthusiasm and interest in others and new things.

3. Healthy eating habits - but also a little naughty treat occasionally!

Win a £1000 Spending Spree with Dove

Here's a really easy-to-enter competition for you.  It's not aimed at over 50s specifically but I thought you'd enjoy it.

Dove have identified 12 "prickly" moments you might like to avoid and all you have to do is state which one you think is the most embarrassing.  Just pick and click and you could win a £1000 spending spree.

Click hereto access the competition.

Mental decline is not inevitable!

Have you ever worried about losing your faculties as you age?  Do you consider that mental decline is inevitable and dread the onset of dementia?  Certainly you will not be alone in your worries because the subject is in the media constantly.  However, whereas the media and scientists have focused on the probability of decline, a recent study has focused on how we can curtail it or even reverse it by very simple means.  A study involving the observation of 2,500 people as they passed through their seventies and eighties has been carried out and the participants were put through a series of memory tests over an eight year period.
 
The tests revealed that 50% of the participants were experiencing memory decline expected for their age and 16% were experiencing a major decline.  However 30% of the participants were experiencing no decline at all and in fact, some of them were showing signs of actual improvement. 

The Widsom of Age - A tribute to Henry Allingham

What can we learn from Henry Allingham

who was the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I veterans and who died last week at the age of 113.

The media stories and quotes give just a glimpse into his life’s philosophies.  I wish I had known him because I’m sure my life would have been richer for the friendship.  He seems to have had an enthusiasm for life which many lack, a great sense of humour and a knack for discarding worries before they took hold.

News report “Allingham was 14 when the war broke out. He spent the war's first months refitting trucks for military use as his mother asked him not to join the military. But a year after his mother's death he decided to sign up.”

I saw a clip of him telling of the time he saw his first aeroplane.  He was a teenager and had intended to become a dispatch rider but as he saw the plane glide noisily across the sky he thought “that’s for me” … and he went after his dream.

• We could learn to venture just as unerringly after our own dreams.  To take a risk. 

• We could learn not to procrastinate and make excuses.  Just go for it!