Welcome to Rejuvenation with Dr. Ron Kaiser.

I am your host, Ron Kaiser. I'm a positive health psychologist and author of the best

selling and award-winning book Rejuvenaging the Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm.

My website is www.thementalhealthjum.com. It's a place where you will find all kinds of information,

not only about Rejuvenaging, but about positive psychology in general and about my theory

of goal achieving psychology. Those of you who have been loyal listeners to the podcast

know that we've taken about a month off around the holiday season at the end of 2019

and beginning of 2020, kind of to regroup, enjoy the season, and we're ready to go now.

So this is actually the first podcast that's being presented in 2020. Let's all hope that

it's going to be a tremendous year. I'd like to tell you a little bit about my experience

over the course of a year that actually began in November 2018. On October 4th, 2019, I

kind of culminated that year by giving my first TEDx talk. It was well received, it was fun to give,

even though I was emphasizing growing older with enthusiasm. The audience was largely younger,

many of whom were willing to accept my principles of living life in a healthy and enthusiastic

manner, and many of them indicated that they were going to take some of my ideas back home to

their parents to help them achieve greater health, greater satisfaction, and greater enthusiasm

throughout the lifespan. They were particularly intrigued by the Rejuvenaging Pyramid that didn't

even make it into my book. It came later. Now, the reason I said that that was the culmination

of a year is because in November of 2018, the book Rejuvenaging was published and over the course

of several weeks it came out in paperback in the form of an ebook and in the form of an audio book.

It was well received. I'm very proud of the fact that it achieved three different awards in

its category, so that's a real source of pride for me. It also was in the top 100 best-selling books

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