10 tips to embrace aging while celebrating another birthday.
It’s my birthday month, July. And I love to celebrate my birthday no matter my age. And it’s smack-dab in the middle of the summer.
Growing up on a farm, my birthday always coincided with our county fair and the time to harvest the wheat. Once those two were done we could go on a family camping trip. Oh, what fun, and oh, how fortunate I am to have the upbringing I did!
Yet, we all know birthdays change over the years.
This aging topic is a BIG thing for many.
And as I have seasoned I have heard of women’s struggles with the aging process.
How about you, do you or have you found aging a challenge, or do you embrace it?
Aging hasn’t been a BIG thing for me. BUT GOD, He used the dash to wake me up. You know that dash, that is on the cemetery headstones, that dash, born on 6.6.61 – died on . That little line, that dash, which can mean years or even one day of life.
The awakening came for me, when I faced death head on with my brother’s death. I was dying inside, and not living in between that dash. Now, that hurt. Really bad!
And once I learned to know how to live and to come-up out-of-the-cemetery from abuse, I chose to step. Then throttle down, to live life large.
10 tips for you to celebrate aging!
- Recognize it’s a gift from the Lord to age. If you’re not going up in numbers you’re dead.
- Life, is to be lived.
- You are one of a kind, unique YOU!
- Come alive if you are dead inside. Get help through counseling or coaching. Do not waste your life and just exist on autopilot.
- Discover your life purpose that will jazz you to get up out of bed.
- Exercise.
- Jump into something you always wanted to do. (Try piano lessons, create a craft or new recipes.)
- Stay in community with caring people.
- Celebrate YOU on your birthday. Do something for yourself.
- Give thanks each day and all day long for life.
Life moves fast.
The 20s and 30s are decades of college years, work, moves, forming families perhaps, raising children, and or juggling careers.
The 40s shift your life again as kids get older to send off, and or to soar, or perhaps for you, several job changes.
50s can be so hard as you start facing the death of loved ones or even in your 40s.
Then roll into the 60s and you might start feeling the body slow a little, perhaps. Keep exercising and eating well and living out your life purpose.
And then into the 70s … and perhaps you live into the 80s or the 90s.
I interviewed two 80 year old ladies that stood at my book table. I asked them what wisdom they would give to me to tell women. They said, “Keep moving.”
Take a step, I challenge you. And if you don’t know why you’re still alive with your life purpose and why God gives you life, what step can you take, to discover your life purpose?
