Finding Meaning in Your Life – Positive Aging

Hello. My name is Paul Young.

I am a businessman, writer and carpenter’s helper.
I also volunteer in and support several worthwhile causes.

My goals are:
• Finding meaning in my personal experiences, and those of others.
• Reframing my basic attitudes toward life and positive aging.
• Helping others whenever I can.

Lessons I Learned in Business

Business is a rough game these days. Just surviving has gotten a lot tougher. I offer my best ideas and strategies from a 40 year career in business. I strongly believe that most of the traits of a successful business person are also applicable for success in all walks of life.

Personal Growth

Practicing new attitudes toward aging has already changed my life for the better.

Two examples are:

• Patience: Learning to wait is a very powerful thing. There are some things that just can’t happen now, no matter how hard I try. For instance, two months ago I could barely walk 10 minutes without stopping. Now I can walk for one half hour without getting overly tired.
  
  
• Gratitude: The positive "practicing" I am doing now is making an actual list of things I’m grateful for. – A "gratitude list" and then adding items to it as the days go by.

Save the world one person at a time.

I believe very strongly in helping others less fortunate than myself. Volunteering for worthwhile causes has changed my life for the better.

Three benefits I have found about volunteering are:

• I am surrounded by positive people.
• I make new life long new friends.
• I find role models that give me inspiration with their energy and enthusiasm.

Action meditations

I find that physically doing something that completely absorbs me is more calming for me than sitting quietly and trying to focus my mind. I call these types of physical activities my action mediations. For instance, I’ve just started painting. I can’t draw, but I’m still having fun painting abstracts.

Get in Motion

The one thing that I notice about every one of my role models is that they are busy people – at any age.

They keep on going – they stay in motion. One of my role models just won recognition by the State of Maryland for volunteering at the age of 92.

Finding meaning in your life – Sources of inspiration.

The resources for finding meaning in life are endless. There are books, role models, sayings, worthy causes to support, poetry, web sites and much more. I add new ones almost every month. I try to pick only those resources which relate to positve aging, success in business, and helping others.

Paul Young has been a stock broker, a sales and marketing manager, and a business owner.

He is married with 2 children and two grand children.

His action meditations are Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), photography and cartooning.

Paul was born in 1940, and lives in the Washington DC area.