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Today, growth versus decay
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I read a book some years ago called Younger Next Year and the authors talked all about
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how for anybody growing up and getting older, not old, but older, the last third of your
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life can be as good as the first two-thirds of your life. One of the topics that they talked a lot about was growth versus decay
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Frankly, I never thought about the word decay much, maybe since tooth decay when I was learning
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about maybe proper dental hygiene, but it really made me think about this idea around
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gratitude and are we growing or are we decaying? Are we getting better or are we getting worse
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Are we getting higher or lower? And one of the things that was so critical to me was discovering gratitude is not only
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gratitude but to keep growing as opposed to decaying was a whole series of things
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Use your gratitude journal, get your rest, drink your water, eat right, exercise, all
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those things. One of the things that the two authors talk about in this book is exercise every day
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no discussion. Now, of course, when you're 60 plus like I am or whatever, it doesn't matter, get an
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early start. So wherever you are in your journey, make sure you're using the gratitude journal
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That keeps this focused, but also if you want to get growing as opposed to decaying or as
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they said in the Shawshank Redemption, you got to get busy living or get busy dying
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It really is that simple sometimes. It's either growth or decay, living or dying
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So really focus on those tools in your toolkit, use gratitude, use the exercise piece
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The number one thing they said in that book is make sure you exercise every day. So wherever you are in your journey, start early on that
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But remember to frame it all around gratitude because when you're grateful for this mind
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that you have and you take good care of the body and do all the right things that they talk about, you'll live a long and full and healthy and exciting life in so many cases
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So think about that. Think about gratitude. Be writing that gratitude journal every day
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Focus on growth. We'll forget about decay. That's the message for today
