When I turned 50 I became consumed with discovering why some people look and much feel younger than their calendar age. You know, the kind of people who exude vitality and resiliently shed stress? I spent years discovering centenarian secrets and scouring the best Anti-Aging Research so you don't have to.

I'm Dr. Michael Brickey, President of The Ageless Lifestyles Institute. I have thirty years of clinical experience doing psychotherapy. My first book, Defy Aging, gives the research, theory, and how-to for living well into your hundreds. It was featured on Oprah, CNN Sunday Morning, and The Voice of America. It was a Finalist in ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Awards and critically acclaimed. My credentials include being Board Certified Psychologist, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and on the medical staff of several hospitals. 

52 baby steps to Grow Young provides a number of answers embodied in my own advice, i.e., "you can’t turn back the clock but you can rewind it."
~Art Linkletter, TV personality and author of Old Age is Not for Sissies

Dr. Brickey gives a clear vision on how to grow young through weekly steps that transform your thinking process. His easy-to-read steps are a refreshing way to renew your spirit and live a better life.
~Nido Qubein, author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and philanthropist

52 baby steps distills anti-aging research and centenarian secrets into a set of brief tasks that readers will find easy to do in their effort to look and feel younger than their chronological age.
~Dr. Ronald Levant, 2005 President of the 150,000 member American Psychological Association

Each step is a gem. I immensely enjoyed this wonderful, well written, pithy daily primer on what it takes to be young at every age.
~Dr. Nick Cummings, President of the Cummings Foundation for Behavioral Health and a past President of the American Psychological Association

A refreshingly humorous perspective on the human condition.  We really are what we perceive ourselves to be.
~Dr. Pat DeLeon, a past President of the American Psychological Association

Dr. Brickey’s 52 baby steps to Grow Young is energizing and life enhancing. It is a wonderful way to practice the positive psychology he enlightened us with in his Defy Aging.
~Dr. Jack Wiggins, a past President of the American Psychological Association

This may be your emotional fountain of youth! Good, accurate information, simple explanations, stimulating quotes and a good joke or two mark each step to growing young. With such a map, why not got for it?
~Dr. Ron Fox, a past President of the American Psychological Association

Michael Brickey’s 52 baby steps to Grow Young gave me many moments of laughter and profound thoughts.
~Dr. Stanley Graham, a past president of the American Psychological Association

At last, a book on aging that is short, succinct, and eminently practical. The advice is wise and when possible evidence-driven.
~Dr. Ben Dean, Founder and President of MentorCoach, the nation’s preeminent training program for clinicians becoming professional coaches

Your thinking plays a huge role in how you age. Nursing homes are full of people who did not age well. The ideal is to live a long, healthy life and when you die, go quickly. That is what a lot of vital centenarians (people 100+ years old) do. A Grow Young mindset helps you follow their example.

52 baby steps to Grow Young leads you step by step with baby steps that develop a youthful mindset at every age. And it only requires reading two pages a week.

52 baby steps to Grow Young isn't magic diets, magic pills, or magic exercises. It is practical, easy to make belief shifts. Any one step seems tiny. Cumulatively the steps make a huge difference in developing a youthful outlook at every age. Your aging is too important to be left to chance or get sucked into our culture's negative beliefs about aging.

• Multi-sensory (reading and hearing)

• Conscious and Unconscious (reading or listening and hypnosis)

• Repetitious (the 52 baby steps)