tamarjacobson

Looking back and thinking forward

Laugh out loud

Found this at Savtadotty on Facebook this morning. A perfect birthday treat! Enjoy everyone!

Nurturing my brain

Quote of the day:

  • Try to include walnuts and blueberries in your daily diet.
  • Consider
    increasing your daily intake of caffeine.
  • Avoid the principal
    factors shown to be associated with a decline in brain
    information-processing ability: insufficient physical and mental
    activity, a decreased number of friends, too much empty spare time,
    infrequent opportunities to converse, and excessive alcohol use.
  • Increase
    your capacity for sustained attention and concentration.  To do this,
    resist the pressures to multitask.
  • Increase your hand and finger
    dexterity.  
  • Develop an appreciation for art.
  • Engage in
    reminiscence exercises.
  • Develop a magnificent obsession…take
    up something that interests you but is far removed from your background,
    education, or life experience.
  • Every day find an hour to
    improve through practice a specific aspect of your performance in an
    activity that interests you.
  • Use music to elevate your mood.

Just in from CCIE!

How on earth did they guess that today I whizzed passed the 60-year-old mark?

I think today I will give myself the gift of a few of the suggested points above. Definitely blueberries and walnuts; certainly some caffeine; lots of physical activity; always some reminiscence activities (those are ongoing!); music, music, music; and, well, yes, I think I will resist the pressures to multitask.