Youth is a wonderful thing. It is a pity it is wasted on the young . - George Bernard Shaw

2. Dr. Izzo asked 15,000 people in the U.S. and Canada to recommend a person who they believe had lived a long life and had something important to teach us about living. • 235 of these recommended people were interviewed and all asked the same questions. • The 5 secrets come from the analysis of common themes in their answers.

3. Youth is a wonderful thing. It is a pity it is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

4. #1 – Be True to Yourself • You must follow your heart and your dreams, not the dreams someone else has for you. • This may mean making a radical change in your life, or simply making small adjustments. • The key to continually examining your life is to make sure you are following your own true path.

5. #1 – Be True to Yourself Questions to ask yourself: • Was I the kind of person I want to be today, or this week? • What would make tomorrow or next week feel more true to myself?

6. The unexamined life is not worth living.-- Socrates • If you don't reflect on your life and values, and instead are merely "going through the motions," then there's an important sense in which your life is not even really yours. • Experiences happen to you, for better or worse, and may trigger a reaction. • However, you are no more than a cog in the machine of the universe until you stop and question your own drives and actions. • Then, you need to reshape your character into a mold of your own devising, and thereby craft a life that makes sense to you as you live it.

7. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. --Tao TeChing

8. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. --Dr. Seuss

9. #2 – Leave No Regrets • Everyone has some regrets, but people who had the fewest were the happiest. • People don’t regret risks that failed; instead they regret not having risked more. • What often determines our happiness in life is how we handle set-backs in our life.

10. #2 – Leave No Regrets Questions to ask yourself: • Did I act on my convictions this week? • How am I responding to the setbacks in my life right now? • Am I stepping forward or retreating?

11. Whenever one wise woman had a big decision to make in her life she asked herself the following question: When I am an old woman sitting in my rocking chair thinking about my life, what decision will I have wished I had made?

12. #3 – Become Love • The more you focus on acting with love, the more you will find happiness. • This begins with choosing to love yourself and breaking away from thoughts that are self-defeating and self-critical. • You must make loving relationships a priority in your life. • Show kindness and compassion for all you meet.

13. #3 – Become Love Questions to ask yourself: • Did I make room for friends, family and relationships today or this week? • Was I kind and loving to the people closest to me? • Did I spread love and kindness in the world at each interaction?

14. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -- the Dalai Lama

15. “Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant, even meeting your brother with a cheerful face.” -- the Koran

16. An old Navajo grandfather told his grandson that there is sometimes inside of him a fight between two wolves. One is evil – full of anger, envy, sorrow, greed, regret, and arrogance. The other is good – full of joy, serenity, love, hope, humility, and empathy. The grandson thought awhile and asked his grandfather which wolf wins the fight. The grandfather replied, “the wolf that I choose to feed.”

17. #4 – Live the Moment • We must always live in the present moment – the only moment in which we have any power. • If you don’t live in the present, you let yesterday or tomorrow steal today’s happiness. • Try to find the joy and beauty in everything you do.

18. #4 – Live the Moment Questions to ask yourself: • Did I fully enjoy whatever I was doing this day/week? • Did I take time to enjoy the little, simple things today, or did I simply run through the day’s agenda? • What am I grateful for right now?

20. #5 – Give More Than You Take • Each day you have the power to give without limit, but you can’t control what you get. • Giving connects people to something larger than themselves, and gives our life purpose. • The happiest people are those least focused on themselves.

21. #5 – Give More Than You Take Questions to ask yourself: • Did I make the world a better place this week in some small way? • Was I kind, generous, and giving this week? • Did I remind myself that I am making a difference this week?

22. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

23. The Last Secret • It’s never too late to begin to live the secrets. • When you follow these secrets and focus on living your life, you will focus less or not at all on judging your life. • A judging mind paralyzes us because it can give us a false sense of perfection or a sense of inadequacy. It’s not too late to . . . . . .

25. The 5 Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die: