Baby Boomer AlertGet ready for the next prime of your life!Today we're living so much longer and more productively that age sixty has truly become the new age forty-the prime of life when our careers are in full swing, our minds are at their most creative, and our passions burn their hottest. -Mark Victor Hansen and Art LinkletterSo how do we ensure that our bodies remain fit, our minds alert and creative, our finances stable-even growing-throughout our senior years? TV icon Art Linkletter (incredibly active in several enterprises at the age of 94) and Chicken Soup for the Soul cocreator Mark Victor Hansen team up to show us how.Much more than a pep talk about maintaining a youthful attitude in our Second Prime, How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life provides tools we can use: strategies, self-tests, worksheets and resources, plus dozens of inspiring stories and humorous anecdotes. Woven together by the authors' own invincible spirits, these empowering principles come alive as Hansen and Linkletter motivate us to find greater purpose and passion in what we do, making the rest of our lives the best ever.
Foreword Art Linkletter xiiiForeword Mark Victor Hansen xviiIntroduction: Forget Entitlements-Introducing the Ten Empowerments 1It's Not "How Old Are You?" But "How Are You Old?"The Eight Great Myths About Growing Old 19Final Score: Lifestyle 70, Genes 30 48It's Who You Know 67You Can't Turn Back the Clock, But You Can Rewind ItWork and Money or The Only Thing You Should Re-Tire Is Your Car 87Body or Never Let Anyone Help You Out of a Chair 115Mind or Are You "Sageing" or Aging? 153Sex or Still Enjoying It While Everybody Else Is Just Talking About It 179Spirituality or Plugging Into a Higher Power 194Attitude or Be Regretless 210Creativity or What's Grandma Moses Got That You Ain't Got? 228Purpose or They Don't Need Preachers in Heaven 248Age Is Wasted on the Old 261Second Prime Resources 277Glossary of Second Prime Terms 283Notes 285About the Authors 297