My mom has been in love with Frank Sinatra since she was a teenager. His music filled our living sterophonically from the first moment of childhood I can recall.
What was it that made him special to my mom and millions of other moms? Certainly his eternally youthful and handsome mien didn’t hurt. A great voice definitely contributed. A charming and sophisticated sense of humor certainly helped.
But most importantly, his lyrics were heartfelt. Frank sang happy and sad and you identified with his sentiments. No song better epitomizes why his music endures than his hit, “You Make Me Feel So Young.”
Us midlifers should sing along as a matter of habit…
You make me feel so young
You make me feel like spring has sprung
Every time I see you grin
Im such a happy individual
The moment that you speak
I want to go and play hide-and-seek
I want to go and bounce the moon
Just like a toy balloon
You and i, are just like a couple of tots
Running across the meadow
Picking up lots of forget-me-nots
You make me feel so young
You make me feel there are songs to be sung
Bells to be rung, and a wonderful fling to be flung
And even when Im old and gray
Im gonna feel the way I do today
cause you make me feel so young
Old dogs can learn new tricks, if we are discussing the human rather than canine type.
The key to rebooting your life once over 50 is to make a single change a day in your core behavior.
For example, if you always respond to greetings rather than initiating them, then initiate a greeting starting today.
If you often eat the same food or drink the same beverage, then switch starting today or, eliminate that food altogether from this point on.
Haven’t dressed up in years? Then do it, go to fancy hotel and chat up some people in the lobby.
Yes, we might not be able to run marathons after years of climbing into the car and driving to the supermarket. But we can build up our endurance by walking one block today and two blocks tomorrow.
Redefine your life one tiny step at a time. It’s never too late to get on track.
Finally, a "How To" detailed manual and training for couples working together.
In the best of times, a marriage is a work in progress. In the worst of times – before divorce or separation – it is Exhibit A in disconnect.
The best of times usually means when one or both spouses are working, come home at reasonable hours, eat family meals sitting down, and are stashing away lots of cash for retirement on the French Riviera or Vancouver Island. Not you?
The worst of times is when one or both spouses work themselves to the bone, eek out a living, hardly ever sit down for a relaxed family meal, have more days in the month than salary, and spend the infrequent spare moments arguing about finances and the future or avoiding each other.
But then one day, a moment of truth arrives. One mate comes home on fire and states to his betrothed that he/she had a brain fart of an idea for a great home-based business. Much to the dismay of the enthused mate, his/her partner dismisses the idea as lame-brained and unaffordable.
Divorce of the overwhelming thought of it singes the air. Night after night, hubby and misses do their best to avoid each other and the marriage goes quickly down the tubes.
When I was in network marketing, my upline and the company video spokesperson would call such a naysayer spouse a ” Dream Stealer.” While that is accurate, it didn’t alleviate my frustration and disappointment that my wife and I couldn’t team up for victory in business.
I also noticed that only in rare cases did wives and husbands unite in victory. Mostly they went it alone and grumbled to the the bank or the poor house, or they divorced in short order.
What is obvious is that there was virtually no clear advice and counseling for couples trying to work together amicably and very profitably. There were model couples, but they never laid out a blueprint to husband-wife teamwork and success.
And then came along Derek and Fabienne Frederickson. They are fabulously successful, down-to-earthy-earth and ready and willing to train wife-husband teams or wannabes in the transient art of building a powerful business while keeping your sanity and marriage in high gear.
Wait not a minute longer to discover the secrets and methodology for husband-wife businesses. Fabienne and Derek are real models for all of us in the spousal war.
There is no good reason why you can’t have a good working relationship with your spouse while working side by side. Even if your mate doesn’t work with you directly, this course will unveil how to get the heartfelt support of the non-participant.
Learn more, before this insanely detailed and life-changing program gets unaffordable. If you have been struggling getting your wife on board, then the investment for this program is almost too good to be true.
As more and more people lose their jobs in midlife, this program becomes a “must have” for marital calm.
