11 SEPTEMBER 2026 WorldWide Drilling Resource® Seven Things to Consider by Tim Connor I am not a physician, but have been studying aging and its causes and consequences my entire life. In fact, in my last book “My Age is None of My Business,” I shared a lot of what I have learned over these many years. Want to live longer and healthier? Consider the following seven items that can/will make a positive, long-term difference in your life and future. In no special order: 1. Manage life’s stressors better. The single biggest contributor to death in life is stress; the single biggest contributor to stress is impatience; and the single biggest contributor to impatience is the need for control. So, if you are a control freak, you are slowly killing yourself. 2. Live each moment with gratitude. A wide variety of medical studies have all come to the same conclusion over the years. People who live with a spirit of gratitude get sick less and live longer - Period. 3. Show appreciation to others more often. Showing appreciation keeps your brain functioning from the youngest part of the human brain, the neocortex. This, in turn, keeps your consciousness focused on the positives in life and not the ones driven by fear. 4. Laugh and have fun every day. Laughing and smiling more during the day keeps you focused on life’s positives rather than negatives. Since the body is more than 70% water, if you stay focused on negatives, it causes your body to produce more acids than alkaline, therefore keeping all the organs of the body surrounded in negatives of acids rather the positives of alkaline. The outcome? Laughter can be a wonderful healer of not only emotional challenges but other life issues as well. 5. Give more time, self, effort, support, guidance, etc. to others. When you give of yourself, you remove yourself from a self-oriented approach to life to an outer-oriented approach. It can keep your mental focus on the positives of life rather than the negative ones you are dealing with. 6. Say thank-you more. This one is simple. If people keep doing stuff for you and over time you fail to say thank-you, it is only a matter of time before they will stop. I don’t care if it’s time, a present, or letting someone out into traffic so they don’t have to keep waiting forever. 7. Let go of stuff that doesn’t matter anymore - the past, future, regret, hurts, disappointment, lack of forgiveness, and so much more. Most negative and pessimistic people tend to stay focused on the past and the future and their past or potential negatives, like - lack of forgiveness, pains, regrets, etc. The past is dead, folks - you can’t fix it now and trust me, I know because for many wasted years I spent too much time and energy trying to fix or change the past. Let it go. That’s it. As a by-product, consider relationships also grounded in the above are going to last longer and be healthier. How do you think you are doing with the above seven? In His service, Tim Tim Connor may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ~Mark Twain
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