2-Minute Aging Antidote
Posted by drbrickey on January 12, 2008
Action to take
Journal the lesson you learn each day.
Why
At lunch today a fellow professional speaker, Marie Pollack,
talked about how she developed a habit of journaling what
she learned each day. I asked myself why I had never thought of this.
Because of Marie’s example, I started a daily lesson journal.
I haven’t kept a diary or journal as I imagined it would
just log mundane events. However, the two minutes it takes
to log the day’s lesson is a great antidote to aging.
It prods you to look for the good and for the lesson.
Learning something new each day is a great way to stay young.
Learning a lesson every day is even better. If you learn more than
300 lessons a year, you are destined to be a very wise person.
Will they all be keepers? If only ten percent seem profound
next year, you still have about three dozen a year.
How does one become a family patriarch or matriarch?
Learning hundreds of lessons a year makes you a natural.
Want to pass on a legacy to children, grandchildren, or others?
How many people learn several hundred lessons each year?
An insight is usually but a fleeting idea unless it is captured on paper.
What could be a simpler way to stay young, positive, and see the
big picture than logging a lesson a day? Writing is one of the best
antidotes to aging I know.
Quotes
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterward.
~How to be a Winner, This Week, 14 August 1940
The diary is an art form just as much as the novel or the play.
The diary simply requires a greater canvas.
~Henry Miller
The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance
of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are,
for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts,
we can change our lives.
~Dale Carnegie
Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey is keynote speaker and author of the Oprah-featured book, Defy Aging and 52 baby steps to Grow Young. The books and his Reverse Aging anti-aging hypnosis CDs comprise his anti-aging system.
