1. Start your day with Bible reading and prayer
This may seem like a non-sequitur. Looking for help with your aging challenges starts with something so banal? This might be like calling for help when your car breaks down only to be visited by a theologian rather than a mechanic. When you start your day in the quiet, you center your mind. When you read a thoughtful devotional book or God’s Word and prayer, you invoke the presence of the holy. This is a very good idea.
2. Smile
Truth be known, like marbles, people bang into each other everywhere. Most times they look away rather than connect with their eyes. What happens when you smile at a stranger? You know the answer, don’t you? That’s right. They smile back. Talk about your perfect win/win.
3. Be generous with your love.
On the eighth day, God created texting. Could you have imagined when you were a younger person that it would be possible to communicate to people in your circle—close by and around the world—from the palm of your hand in a matter of seconds? No, you could not have imagined such a thing. That amazing technology at your fingertips . . . that messenger, that video camera . . . can keep you connected with people whenever you’d like. This is not primarily a toy. It’s a tool. Use it.
4. Keep in close contact with younger people
Some of these callow creatures are family. They think you could give a rip about them . . . because they act like they could give a rip about you. Stop this. Seek out younger people. Speak to them. Ask good questions then listen with your eyes. They will love this. And you.
5. Be intentional about the way you walk
The next time you’re out, pay attention to the way folks walk. Are you doing a lot of shuffling across the grocery store parking lot. Not picking up your feet. Not striding with intention. Literally tell yourself to square your shoulders. Look up instead of down.
6. Instead of whining, be wine
Be more like grapes than ball bearings. Squishing together rather than bouncing off and away from each other. Because of community, creating delicious wine rather than noise and conflict.
7. The Best Medicine
In 1922 a monthly publication called Reader's Digest was released from midtown Manhattan. A favorite feature was called, "Laughter the Best Medicine." The older we get, and the more our medicine cabinet is filled with actual medicines, the more eager we are to laugh. With visual things like short animal videos and clean comedians do your best to keep stocked up.
... This is based upon an article by Robert Wolgemouth