There was a time when successfully aging meant renewing your library card and wrapping up in a blanket by the fire. Now, it’s deciding which boat to buy, class to take or trail to blaze.

Aging successfully no longer means not being able to participate in living life to the fullest. It can mean rediscovering your life’s purpose, rekindling a long-held passion, discovering new interests or solidifying your most important relationships.

It’s a fact that aging is what happens to all of us. Being successful at aging is using the 20, 30 or 40 years of experience you’ve gained to reinvent and empower yourself to live the life you have always envisioned.

Read more about successful aging on the Psychology Today blog.