This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

The secret to aging well is keeping your mind young.

Your body, sadly, is a lost cause.

If you've seen my pictures, I know you're thinking I'm 22 or 23 with my rippling manly man body, my sparkling, wavy hair,

and my seemingly endless energy.

What you don't see is the two hours a day that I spend, pasting on prosthetics,

outlining my abs lightly with an eyebrow pencil,

drinking a gallon of caffeine for energy and working out to go from slumpy to adequate.

The scariest thing about aging isn't my looming mortality, which is terrifying, but it's seeing how many people let their life go by,

wasted. Some people give up early. By their late 30s or their mid-40s, they have few friends,

and their conversation consists of rehashing the same old complaints they've had since college.

Oh, you know, they might get worked up about politics for a minute, even though they never bothered to inform themselves about it in any substantive way.

And then they'll break up the monotony by shrieking the talking points from their regular propaganda outlet for a few minutes before settling back into their dormant stupor. On a good day,

they may also complain about their latest medical procedure or their dead-end job. The idea of

turning into that terrifies me. My friend Francis Hesselbein is older than I am. In fact,

she's near the end of her first century. She's still optimistic,

forward-looking, and starting new initiatives. Now, it's true, she isn't doing quite as much

as she did when she was the CEO of the Girl Scouts and grew them to a million members,

or when she designed the U.S. Army's leadership training, or when she was named the best

CEO of the 20th century by Peter Drucker, now she uses her time more modestly.

Last year, she finished a teaching stint at West Point, and then, you know, helped a school in the Bronx, start a campaign, built a library where they hadn't had one.

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