Author: dempsey

Put On Your Dancing Shoes; It’s a Great Brain/Body Workout

We don’t teach dancing anymore. Arthur Murray Studio’s are hard to find. Used to be, in school as part of Physical Education (which we also don’t teach so much anymore), we taught a semester...

Action Step: Wrists and Hands

Easy peasy wrist and hand drills. Watch the amazing Tuesday Action Step video. Before you eat, practice the drill. Only then, eat. Add a habit you already do (eating) to a habit that you want to...

How to Learn

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. Dr Seuss

How to Change Habits

Changing habits is starting small, underwhelming yourself, and continuing. Every day. That’s Aging Intelligently.

What Has Thinking to Do With Anything?

Five percent of the people think; 10 percent of the people think they think; and the other 85 percent would rather die than think. Thomas Edison Which are...

One Thing Changes Everything

Aging Intelligently isn’t some pie in the sky philosophy that I dreamed up the day before yesterday. It’s my ongoing vision for the ability to live life on my own terms, free from disease,...

Ankles and Feet, Part 2, with video

Ankles and feet. Click here to view the super fabulous, brilliant video. Ankles and feet. First you exercise. Then you eat. That’s Aging Intelligently.

Adventurous Aging

Treat aging as an adventure. That’s Aging Intelligently.

Excerpt from my fabulous new book: Anything novel and new can stimulate the brain to create better neural paths, better communication. Lifelong learners and fearless adventurers fare better than people who are not. available...