From The Author

From the author, Dottie Billington, Ph.D.

One crisp winter morning several years ago I was out walking with Katie, a 37 year-old friend. A little embarrassed, she confided, “I dread getting older. I see so many people getting narrow and negative, bored and boring.” Her words stunned me. This dynamic, attractive woman with bubbling enthusiasm had everything going for her–challenging work, good friends, a loving family–and she fears getting older? It was then I realized this book had to be written. For 17 years I had been studying exceptionally vital, dynamic, ever-growing midlife men and women. I discovered they shared a unique set of habits–techniques and attitudes that can be adopted by all of us. Yet, until then I had reported these findings only in academic journals and magazines. It was time to share this information with everyone. It was time to remind our youth-oriented society that our mature years are the time to blossom, to become our very best–the special person each of us was meant to be. This small book with rich messages takes you by the hand and guides you along that path, for your best is yet to be.