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    Life Over 40: What to Expect
    Life Over 40: What to Expect
    Life Over 40: What to Expect
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    Life Over 40: What to Expect

    By Benedict Obertan

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    Life over 40 can be a tough time, I hope you are here to try to understand exactly what may and will happen.

    In this book you will find what the two sides to life over 40 are, the physical and mental behavioural symptoms and how they can effect your life.

    The key is to age healthily and you will start to understand the ways to do this and manage your concerns for midlife.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKoala Lumpa Books
    Release dateDec 11, 2014
    ISBN9781502295187
    Life Over 40: What to Expect

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      Life Over 40 - Benedict Obertan

      Life Over 40: What to Expect

      By Benedict Obertan

      Table of Contents

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      1. The Two Sides to Midlife

      2. The Physical and Behavioural Symptoms of Midlife

      3. Healthy Aging: How to Manage the Symptoms and Health Concerns of Midlife

      4. Coping with Midlife Crisis

      1. The Two Sides to Midlife

      The Two Sides of Midlife 

      It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...

      Literature buffs will immediately recognize those lyrical words as the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ celebrated novel, A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens was certainly not talking about midlife when he wrote those famous words, but they are as apt a description of midlife as any. Midlife—referring to that phase of a person’s life when he reaches halfway of his expected lifespan, which roughly means his forties or fifties—is viewed with trepidation by some people, and with happy expectations by others. On one hand, at midlife, a person is officially not young anymore. Now middle-aged, his physical and mental strength begins to wane, and he may not have as many opportunities and options for work, advancement, leisure and new ventures as before. On the other hand, midlife can signal the beginning of a life with less struggling and less stress, and therefore greater ease and comfort. It can be a time to slow down a bit and enjoy the fruits of all the hard work put in earlier in life.

      Whether one believes that midlife is a time to look forward to or to dread, it is an inevitable part of our lives. We should therefore know what to expect

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