Today, I am having Olympic thoughts as tonight I speak for a Senior Olympic banquet and next week, I travel to Colorado Springs, CO to speak at the US Olympic training center. I am looking forward to both and am sure I will learn some things about perseverance, dedication, commitment, attitude, and more. The groups will likely have some things in common but they will be more different than they are alike. The Olympians I will be speaking to next week are paralympians. I am sure both experiences will create some blogable moments.

Colin Milmner, chief executive of the International Council of Active Aging, made some reading suggestions in a recent Wall Street Journal article and on the website:

Growing Stronger - Strength Training for Older Adults

www.StrongWomen.com

Active Living Every Day

Fitness After 50

Last year, I read a great book Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You’re 80 and Beyond. Check it out and watch an inspirational video clip of one of the authors who is definitely Living Rich.

Live Rich today and while you are at it, live younger too.

Just for fun, I’d like to see an independent poll on the percentage of people who don’t give a flying flip that Jordin Sparks was crowned the newest and youngest “American Idol” last night. I guess I would be in the extreme minority as over 600 million people voted (more than 10 times the number of voters in the last presidental election). If you know the US population, you’ll know that that number exceeds the number of Americans. Perhaps we should let people vote online as much as they want. Better yet, let’s engage our presidential candidates in an Idol like competition. Would more people tune into to hear Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, and Rudy G singing than mudslinging?

Are we addicted to “Reality TV” or what? There are certainly idol time activities worthy of our attention but come on, it’s getting ridiculous that Reality TV is becoming the reality life of so many. I’m voting them all off the island.

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies, associations, and national conventions. He is the founder of the The Worlds Biggest Blog Party an event which will connect bloggers from all over the world to raise money for charity. He is also founder and president of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund. For more information on Tim, go to www.TimRichardson.com