Lessons from My Grandmother

At 95, my grandmother still had a spring in her step. She rode her electric bicycle potters around her vegetable garden and walked a mile or so daily.

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There's a fearlessness about her that, even as her body started to slow down, she went about her life healthy, happy, and unassuming. This got me thinking about how she's lived and what I can learn from her.

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Living the Right Way

As a farmer's wife, she worked hard on the farm with my late Grandfather. She ate her grown fruit and vegetables, drank milk straight from the cows, got fresh eggs in the mornings from the chickens, and ate meat from the animals they kept. There was no processed food in her life, nothing from a jar or packet, no soda or unnecessary sugars, chemicals, or hormones. Just homegrown goodness!

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She was very active working on the farm, riding horses, walking the dogs, checking the electric fence boundaries, loading hay bales, carrying milk and teaching me and my brothers how to swim.

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She lived exactly how humans are designed to; very active, hunting, gathering, and eating what we now know as a paleo diet.

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Wisdom from our elders

For many years, I have asked her what the secret to a long life is, and she always replied with a cheeky smile, "A small glass of medicine every day" - referring to her whiskey!

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Although funny, I realise she enjoyed each day for what it was. She doesn't want material things or wonder how life might be. She never sweated the small stuff.

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There is no absolute secret to a long life. We don't know what we are dealt. However, we all need to eat better, move more, and stress less.

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There is wisdom in our elders, and we can sometimes overlook the simplicity of their lives. It's hard to imagine that they were once our age and that, if we're lucky, we'll live to see their age someday!

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Fun  - Honesty - SIMPLICITY - Smash Life - Mental Toughness - Hard Work