If the title does not apply to you, that’s good—you’re satisfied with your age, and your attitude makes the most of it, and it shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, it is universally pointless to not act your age—that is, deny your age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We cannot do anything to change our age, except live another day and another year, and our age changes automatically (my, how profound).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes we see others trying to act younger than their age, and it can look silly, or impressive for awhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other side, the routine of childhood, wishing to be older with more freedom, may be harmless, unless we do not outgrow the wishing and dreaming for that elusive someday when our goals are reached and we can really live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That attitude never matches our age, and results in missing out on living today, and the next day, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our conversations often reveal our attitude, and whether it matches our age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can talk about “someday” in the future, or we can talk about “once upon a time” in the past, but others listening to us can tell if our outlook seizes the opportunities of today, or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be thankful for today, and your age, and everything in your life now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If life stinks, you can’t make it smell better by talking about yesterday and doing nothing, or by living for tomorrow and burning the candle at both ends, any more than you can improve your finances with credit cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s no place to buy another candle, with your choice of smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re struggling with ‘contentment syndrome’ (that is, discontent), start with thinking about contentment for today<\/span>, and work hard and faithfully on what you can do<\/span> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then your age and your attitude can mesh like the teeth of two gears, and you can experience more energy for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is another article on this site, SUCCESS – – – SIMPLIFIED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Having food and clothing, be content.”—–His Book<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Godliness with contentment is great gain.”—–His Book<\/p>\n\n\n\n I like to combine those two into a formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Food + Clothes = Contentment<\/p>\n\n\n\n Godliness + Contentment = Great Gain (Success)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Godliness + Food + Clothes = Success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the title does not apply to you, that’s good—you’re satisfied with your age, and your attitude makes the most of it, and it shows. – – – First, it is universally pointless to not act your age—that is, deny your age. We cannot do anything to change our age, except live another day and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}