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Start looking for opportunities to apply these lifestyles.
Share the ideas with your friends. Get a buddy to brain-
storm with for new things to do and try. You can do this. Just
start with one new thing you want to alter, master that, and
then incorporate another lifestyle change. In our household,
it was always the joke that as my father aged, he asked us to
just put him in the corner with a wooden bowl. You have a
choice: independent living or relegation to the corner with a
wooden bowl.

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