YEAY! Your Easy Aging Year starts here

Your Easy Aging Year is at your fingertips. It’s a little programme with tools to tackle the age-related changes that lie ahead. Here’s the purpose: quietly, easily, to gain some useful skills and a more positive, realistic approach to your future old age.

You’re fine the way you are! This is not about a makeover. Instead, you’ll take some baby steps and start some tiny habits—the ones you choose and know you want to do.

The story of my easy aging programme

I invented the Easy Aging Year programme for myself and completed it ten years ago. At the time I called it my Boot Camp for the Bonus Years, but it turned out to be absurdly easy. Now, at 86, I’m still benefiting. YEAY brought me new skills that I still use every day. It also brought me confidence that I could manage my future life as a very old woman. That’s why I have overcome my shyness and am sharing my private plan with you.

Frequently, a new acquaintance will study me rather carefully, and say, ‘I never would have picked you for 86.’ Last week, someone kept quizzing me, ‘Are you sure? You did say EIGHTY-six?’ My arithmetic is not my strong suit, but I do know I was born in 1940. Some people want to know how, why, what do I do to seem younger than my real age. No, I cannot say it’s only because of my easy aging year, for I’ve also had very good luck—parents, family, genes, and the social-political environment of my youth. But also, Yes, my year of easy aging has strongly influenced how I’ve dealt with my advancing age. I’m not just drifting through old age. I’m alert, adapting my habits and environment, and even enjoying the process. That’s what I can offer you.

Disclaimer

I’m not a scientist, health worker, fitness trainer, psychologist, gerontologist or any kind of expert. I’m just an octogenarian writer. The YEAY programme is YOURS; it’s one you plan and carry out yourself, choosing your own tiny habits. Please consult your GP or other trusted professional about any aspect of YEAY that concerns or puzzles you.

FREE workbook for Your Easy Aging Year

The 2026 workbook, now tested and polished, is still free for you. I don’t want cost to be an obstacle and this way you can have your friends doing it too. Also, I wouldn’t be smart, at 86, to start selling items on the web again.

Please take a copy for free and print it the way it suits you. (Most people need a paper version because you will make your own notes, write down your own tiny habits.)

Pay me with your comments, please

I want to know how you’re doing. I want to know about your new ideas and habits. That’s my reward for the research, writing and expense of creating this workbook for YEAY: Your Easy Aging Year.

Comments below please! I will reply as long as I’m able.

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