Every book begins with a single thought. In this instance, the thought was more a flash of divine inspiration, something that came to me in the middle of the night and refused to go away. Over the following weeks, I quietly approached one hundred friends, associates and close relations. I briefly outlined the project, while at the same time exploring their thoughts. Within less than a week, I began to receive a remarkable response from across the world. To cover every option and receive as broad a response as possible, I asked each writer to contact his or her friends, spreading the net as widely as possible. I offered very little guidance, preferring instead to see what divine inspirations came back from each contributor. The only guideline I gave was to ask each writer to write an article of some three hundred words. I little imagined that within the matter of a few short days an enormous torrent of replies would overwhelm me. It was truly delightful to find so many shared the same thoughts, whilst others offered something new and refreshing. This is where I faced the complex work of sorting them out for inclusion in this book. I sifted carefully through all these replies and in the end, chose one hundred that I felt explained how to stay young. The extra offering is my own The one hundred people who have written the pages of this book address nearly every aspect of life, neatly laid out in a few succinct paragraphs. The youngest contributor is just nine years old They are all here, each with their special slant on what makes them a typical cross-section of everyday society. It is quite likely you will find several who mirror your thinking, or give you pause to ponder on what they say and perhaps change your life into one that will retain its hold on youthfulness for an extra decade....or two