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Our three profile subjects reveal their rules to live by for staying healthy at any age.
What healthy tips can you share with readers?
Amini: “I would recommend challenging yourself with one thing you can commit to, and add (other challenges) as you achieve your goal. Try to work out with friends or a companion. Make it a part of your lifestyle.”
Tobias: “Eat fresh — organic is great. Just spend most of your time in the produce section of the grocery store. Think twice when you try to take some sort of ‘fast track’ to health.”
Walton: “For me, the bottom line to being healthy, fit and youthful is movement. You have to move your body, ideally each day, to clean out your pipes, fuel up the blood in your engine with oxygen and, most importantly, get your daily dose of endorphins to fight off anxiety, depression and good old-fashioned crankiness.”
What is beauty?
Tobias: “I think contentment, acceptance and gratitude in a person are more beautiful than merely outward physical beauty.”
Walton: “It’s two different things: how others perceive you and how you’re feeling. I think beauty can be wrapped into ‘I feel confident today’ or ‘I feel powerful today’ — those types of descriptions. I can see physical beauty in people, but for me, it’s all what’s happening inside. Physical beauty can make you crazy if that’s the only thing that defines you.”
Amini: “I believe when a person is able to identify their capabilities and what makes them unique, that is true beauty.”
What’s your life philosophy?
Tobias: “I don’t want my life to be a blur. I’m trying to juggle a lot of things to keep my life fruitful, but I also don’t want to get too busy that I miss it.”
Walton: “Don’t look back; keep moving forward. I really try to keep my eyes on the road up ahead and not look in the rearview mirror too much. I do believe you have to keep moving and you’ve got to laugh at yourself. It’s easy to laugh at others, but you just have to laugh at yourself very often.”
Amini: “My life philosophy has come from a quote I came across a few years ago by Gil Bailie: ‘Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’”
