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What inspires you?

When you think about the people and experiences that have really inspired you, what was it that struck a chord with you? In each case was it a novel learning experience, uplifting or even life changing? When you have been inspired into action did you find that the steps you took were more creative, smoother and took less effort than something you felt forced to do?

The purpose of Inspire Ageing.com is to raise our expectations of what our true potential for health and well being is – irrespective of our genetic makeup, gender, ethnicity – and especially our age. It is about looking at easier ways of achieving this and making what we learn habitual so we remain resilient and robust whatever our age. Over the coming weeks one of our most interesting and up-to-date themes will be covered in the ‘Habit for Habit’ series. If you are serious about making changes and sticking to them this could be of immense practical benefit to you.

It is also about keeping an open mind about what we think we know and understand; what we believe about our health and well being and how this affects our thoughts, feelings and behaviours each and every day.Towards this end we will cover a diverse range of topics, from enhancing mood to advancing movement, from healthy eating and drinking to avoiding the slippery slop to senescence. We will include practical and simple exercises which will help to assess your current status and may be the trigger to literally taking the first step towards a life you love.

Lastly we all have an ability to empower to inspire others. When we pursue our daily lives with passion and enthusiasm, we already have something which is very valuable to us and everyone around us.

Join me regularly on Inspire Ageing. Let’s just see how much more healthy and well we can feel every day.

Moving towards a life I love: What’s your standing balance time?

Even if you consider yourself to be fit and active, two simple tests which you can do at home right now, The Standing Balance Test and the Five Repetition Sit to Stand Test (FRSTS), have been shown to be good predictors of your future health. Both are quick and easy to do, are a useful…

Moving towards a life I love: Born to be move and born to be buoyant

Moving towards a life I love: Born to be move and born to be buoyant

We were born to move and be buoyant. The evidence for this is provided firstly by the measurable and holistic benefits of being active for our physical, mental and emotional health, and secondly by the hazards of being inactive. As we have shown in other posts, physical inactivity can be lethal. (See: Are you an…

Are you an ‘Active’ couch potato?

Are you an ‘Active’ couch potato?

Reducing your ‘Sedentary Time’ could literally save your life. Across Europe and the USA there is evidence that we are spending an increasing amount of time sitting as against standing, walking, running or just moving. Many of us sit for long periods at work or in school, or travelling between the two. Even when we…

Approaching 50 or over? – How ‘pre-frail’ are you?

Approaching 50 or over? – How ‘pre-frail’ are you?

5 simple questions to help avoid the slippery slope to senescence. Age alone cannot tell whether a person is frail or even pre-frail. In a survey of over 30,000 people aged 50+, across 12 European countries, more than one in four females and just over one in six males met the criteria for being pre-frail….

Healthy drinking: testing yourself and resetting the ‘alcohol-stat’

Healthy drinking: testing yourself and resetting the ‘alcohol-stat’

Most people can ‘reset’ their whole system by having an alcohol free period. It doesn’t have to be 4 weeks. Try 2 or 3 weeks. At least aim to have at least 2 days a week alcohol free and make this a habit by planning which days you are going to this each week in…

Are you becoming grumpy before your time?

Are you becoming grumpy before your time?

Try an alcohol free period and sleep like a baby! Could this be you? Over a period of time you have lost your sense of humour and more people think you are grumpy or moody. In fact you seem to have trouble controlling your emotions, with more negativity and less flexibility. You are easily distracted…

Three things to do before you go on a diet

How to lose up to 20 pounds gradually without having to count calories. Let’s face it the vast majority of diets don’t work. Ninety five percent of people who lose weight on a diet put the weight back on over the next 12 months and 10 percent of these will end up heavier than before…