I heard this story from Lori Prokop, the creator of the web site http://www.howtohealabuse.com. It is about her friend best selling author of Believe It, Become It, Dr. Paula Fellingham. Lori Prokop says Paula is one of the most enthusiastic people she knows and has a great anti-aging secret she lives by.

Lori wouldn’t tell me Paula’s age but says Paula looks naturally great. I asked how. Here is what Lori said.

After a weekend workshop in Minneapolis where Lori Prokop was the featured speaker for the entire multi-day event, she and Paula were having dinner at a loud restaurant. Lori chose it because it was conveniently adjacent to the hotel. She and Paula were tired and really just wanted to get a quick bite to eat and retire for the evening.

In the restaurant, Lori Prokop and Paula Fellingham were too close to the bar for their preference as the table was being circled with smoke and overtaken with loud shouts from a group of people trying to impress each other.

At that moment, both women just wanted peace and quite. To Lori there was nothing beautiful about what she saw as a smoke-filled, over-crowded restaurant.

But Paula exclaimed with enthusiasm, “Lori, it’s so nice to be having dinner with you. Just being together makes this place more bearable.”

Lori instantly felt better and had the wisdom to thank her dear friend.

We’ve all been in those shoes, too preoccupied to be living in the now. Our job is to keep ourselves sensitized to it, to be aware of it. Living in the now is an anti-aging secret that keeps us young from the inside out.

Thoreau wrote about anti-aging, “None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

Shelly Horvath writes about many self improvement subjects including anti-aging. She interviewed Lori Prokop. Visit www.howtohealabuse.com for free resources. Create what you want in life and manifest your desires. To discover how and get your Free Special Report.

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