"People can only learn when their original assumptions have been broken." Steve Chang – Founder, Trend Micro
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." Will Rogers
"Live your life, forget your age." Norman Vincent Peale
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
"You’ve got to live it – to live!" Frank Moffatt
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death” Albert Einstein
“Our beliefs create the world that we live in, and our beliefs and thoughts therefore also create the stress we experience. If we think something is safe and possible to conquer, then it is. But if we think the opposite then that will be our experiences.” Janice Calnan, Psychotherapist
"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"In life we get what we give - so if peace and happiness is your wish - be first to give it away!" Frank Moffatt
"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first." Harry S Truman
"…in navigating our lives, it is our fears and envies, our rages and depressions, our worries and anxieties that steer us day to day. Even the most academically brilliant among us are vulnerable to being undone by unruly emotions. The price we pay for emotional literacy is in failed marriages and troubled families, in stunted social and work lives, in deteriorating physical health and mental anguish…" Daniel Goleman
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." Anthony Robbins
"Life is difficult. This is a great truth; one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." Scott Peck
"Pain is temporary and glory is forever"
"Trying is a noisy way of doing nothing."
“Who Says You Can’t Teach an Old Dog a New Trick”
Is it possible to live a healthy
happy and fulfilling second fifty years? We certainly believe so; and hopefully,
you will too after you’ve read this book. The information provided is only a
guide the journey is yours. Our belief is that when the mental, emotional,
physical and spiritual dimensions of our being are in balance a long and healthy
second fifty years is certainly within our reach.
In this book, we hope to shed light on the endless possibilities that lay before
you. We do not intend to lecture or coach. Rather we prefer to offer a path
through the four dimensions of your life subsequently presenting the infinite
possibilities that lay before you. That being said, it is essential that before
we begin this journey we need to be prepared to challenge old beliefs and
explore new possibilities. If you are willing to be open minded you will
discover that you have within you the capacity to completely change your own
experience of ageing.
