How long does a average person live? And what are the factors that make us live longer?

If people are lucky enough to escape serious illnesses that could shorten their life, and they assume they could live to the age they want. What age would that be for you?  The next question is, how is your life today? Is it good enough to get you to that desired age?

The factors that come into long life is the whole lifestyle. Your health is very important and health isn’t only medical. How is your diet and is your weight ideal? People who are overweight might develop some serious medical problems later in life, such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Another serious problem that can come with being overweight is damage to the joints. The knees that are supposed to carry us around all our life could get weak and only support us partially. This is single factor that can shorten your life - so what can you do today to lengthen your life? People who are at their ideal weight will be less likely to develop joint problems, high blood pressure and diabetes.

With all this said, there are more things that will influence long life. Happy people seem to live longer. Research shows that people who laugh a lot  are happier and live longer. How is you happiness? Is your life as you like it to be? There are many factors that influence happiness. Partnership, family, friends, work, children and more. How often do you have a good laugh and a smile?  Do you feel inside like you are floating on a cloud of happiness. You take a deep breath and you can feel the word expand and feel how you are lifted of the ground in total happiness and gratefulness of being part of life. You look into the future and see your self old holding hands with you best friend and both are smiling and laughing. Is this how you feel, or do you have a black cloud hanging over you? If so, how can you identify what is causing the black cloud? We all have a ability to choose our mood. Who hasn’t said, when X happens I will fell better? So why wait till X happens when you know how to get there today?  If you were a backpacker traveling the world by yourself, would you be happy with you company? Are you fun to be with and happy? You have to like your self to fulfill your life. You are the person thats going to be with you for the rest of your life, every day, every minute, every second. Your life is about you so what kind of a life do you want to have? Other people in your life are just part of it. Like for everybody else, they are the center and others are parts of their life.

When you are happy you are less likely to get ill or being in pain because you are less focused about negative things. You attract everything positive into your life and you see most things in positive light. There aren’t many hurdles on your way because you belief in yourself and that everything is possible. You are more able to attract new people into your life that make you happy and you make them happy. Positive insight to life makes people happy because there are less problem around them and most problem have solution to them.  Generally happy people cope better under stress and when sorrow knocks on the door. Happy people know how to be sad and hurt without letting it bring them down into a black hole. They recover by putting things into perspective and a positive light and try to find a meaning for what happened.  Are you one of those happy people that smiles and finds your heart burst with happiness? If not, how can you identify what is making you unhappy or sad and what can you do about it?

The long life code could be healthy lifestyle and happiness, if you live that way you are much more likely to live long and pain and illness free life.

I will tell you a short story of my great-grandmother-in-law. She is 97 years old. She looks 79 and her mind and memory is like 67 or less. There is hardly anything she can´t do. (Actually she stopped driving about 5 years ago because she lost her eyesight). She lives in her own flat in a pension house. Loosing her eyesight didn’t stop her doing what she wanted. She went camping 2 years ago in Norway and last summer she went to Denmark for a cottage holiday. This year, because of the credit crunch, she will be traveling east of Iceland in a mobile home. 97 years of age. When she was 91 years of age she was asked if she liked to go to London and visit my family.  Her respond was “ I have never been to London, yes I will go”. She never complains and is always happy, she meets people everyday and is very spontaneous. She goes to every family gathering because she loves meeting her family and follow up on everybody. Her legs are still good  so she is still walking. She is a slim woman who had 6 children and worked hard all her life. She is the most amazing woman I know, she is my role model.

How about stop up and look at our life and think. Are we  living it to day in the way we will be happy when we are 97. Lets not have any regrets and say at 70 years of age I wish I had looked better after my self or  I wish I had done X. We were given this life as a present as you get birthday presents so treasure it as good as you can. Looking after your health and happiness starts to day. Your spontaneity and  positive insight to life starts to day. What is going to be your first step to make changes if you need any?

Ask your self how old are you going to be and how are you going to live your life of excellence?