Enthusiasm is at the heart of healthy aging, yet why do so many people shy away from it as they get older? Enthusiasm reduces stress, increases energy and productivity, enhances relationships and enriches our quality of life. In this highly informative and entertaining program, you’ll discover the five secrets of enthusiastic older adults and six strategies to help you, your clients, coworkers, friends, and family turn the fear of aging into the fun of aging.
That advice to ‘act your age’ is about the worst advice I ever heard. I’m always thinking, ‘What am I going to do when I grow up?’ It’s as if I haven’t done anything yet. I would say to all [women], ‘Don’t give up your dreams and your desires. Don’t give up the ship. Don’t give up. Just keep on.’ -- Liz Smith, columnist On Women Turning Seventy
Enthusiasm is one of the most under-utilized tools for improving life enjoyment, workplace satisfaction, and maintaining vibrant health at any age.
If you’re like a lot of people, you’re nodding your head in agreement right now and thinking about how fatigued you are, how you don’t have enough time, and how enthusiasm is something that belongs to the young and restless.
Whatever your thoughts, recognize that by the time you finish this article you will feel more energized, have the awareness and skill to create enthusiasm on demand and use it to make your life more satisfying, your work more enjoyable, and your mind, body and spirit more alive at any age.
Enthusiasm goes by many names: eagerness, energy, excitement, get up and go, gusto, hope, joy, liveliness, optimism, pep, pizzazz, spirit, spunk, vim and vigor, vitality, zest. Enthusiasm also wears many faces. Some people express enthusiasm loudly with their voice and words. Others show it in the way that they move their body. For some it is in their eyes. And in a few, you barely notice it at all. But you know when you’re around enthusiasm because it lights a fire in everyone around the person who is expressing it.
