{"id":1957,"date":"2010-05-03T03:15:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2010-05-02T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T15:19:13","slug":"how-to-get-to-the-nursing-home-ahead-of-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/how-to-get-to-the-nursing-home-ahead-of-the-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get to the Nursing Home Ahead of the Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am a firm believer; an avid advocate.\u00a0 You might say I\u2019m obnoxious about this truth: getting older is a privilege; getting old is a choice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s the stage of life I\u2019m in.\u00a0 But I seem to be hearing more and more people in their thirties, forties, and fifties talking way too much about retirement, or saying way too often that the life of their dreams has passed them by because they are \u201ctoo old.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have you found that in life, you\u2019re either too young, too old, or too tired?\u00a0 It\u2019s almost as though people are planning to live the last years of their life in a nursing home, but they want to schedule a visit and make an appointment as soon as they possibly can.\u00a0 Not me.<\/p>\n

I am going to live until I\u2019m dead.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to live all the way.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to work, try, plan, aspire.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have a mission.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have a big vision.\u00a0 And I\u2019m going to have goals that support it in every area of my life: relationally, spiritually, physically, and financially. <\/strong> You should too.<\/p>\n

As Paula and I launch more and more into helping married people grow great, we\u2019re discovering that people married 10, 15, 20, even 30 years feel that the dysfunction and the pain of their past has doomed them to a marriage that\u2019s below average, or even terminal.<\/p>\n

Let me just say this to you. It is never too late to aspire to amazing.<\/strong> It is never too late to have the marriage of your dreams.\u00a0 It is never too late to have the career that you\u2019ve always wanted.\u00a0 Age has absolutely nothing to do with it.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, age works to your advantage because the older you are, the more experienced you are, the wiser you are and the more of the things you know you do not want.\u00a0 You have to focus on the things that really now matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey, cancel your subscription to AARP and all of those insurance programs that give you money for your house and whatever else it is these people are hawking these days to people in their advancing years. I\u2019m talking about 35-plus.\u00a0 Haha.\u00a0 Stay alive.\u00a0 Stay young.\u00a0 Stay hopeful.\u00a0 Have fun.\u00a0 Be foolish.\u00a0 Dance, skip, run, dare to be a child all the way.\u00a0 Dare to contribute.\u00a0 Dare to make something amazing of your life in the second half!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a firm believer; an avid advocate.\u00a0 You might say I\u2019m obnoxious about this truth: getting older is a privilege; getting old is a choice. Maybe it\u2019s the stage of life I\u2019m in.\u00a0 But I seem to be hearing more and more people in their thirties, forties, and fifties talking way too much about … Continue reading “How to Get to the Nursing Home Ahead of the Crowd”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}