Whether you’re single or your family is made up of any number from two to twenty, your quality time is a link to your health and your appearance. Stress works like Father Time in high gear on your skin, especially the delicate areas of the face. When you are able to slow down, reevaluate or just restructure your quality time, you can add years to your youthful glow. Get started with these simple solutions.

For the single girl or guy, you need quality time as much as anyone. Yet your life demands often trump those of busy parents because you’re expected to have more time on your hands. Not so. Start by evaluating how your time is spent each work day. Are your after-hour demands soaking up your entire weekend? Does your workday end long after even the cleaning crews have called it a night? You need to make it clear that your quality time is valued and necessary for your health and job performance. You set your own standards. Raise them high and, in a professional manner, make your boss respect and adhere to the amount of time you’ll give to the job. Remember long after you’ve been promoted, quit or retired, what sticks with you is not this company, it’s you. Your skin, smile and mental well-being will thank you for it.

To the couple who spends long hours doing all the things that filled single life to the brim, slow down. Couples have to work hard to create quality time. Write down your individual schedules including racquetball with the guys and shopping with the girls. Count everything you do as part of your “work week” – even the gym, grocery shopping and paying bills. Once you’ve scheduled everything that must get done, look for time you can devote to each other. Every Wednesday evening is free. Make it a weekly demand that doesn’t budge just the same as your weekly staff meeting with the boss. Now you’ve freed time and stress over how to be together without a million things pulling on your mind. A stress-free person is a healthier person. Healthy = A Younger Looking and Feeling You.

Families, your lives may include more schedules, but you too can create quality time by restructuring the things you already do. It may seem silly now, but making tasks, like collecting laundry, going to the grocery store, even cleaning the house, a family affair can improve your quality time. Your family’s attitude is up to you.

Your upbeat, carefree approach to these tasks can be contagious. Is your family naturally competitive? Make a friendly family wager on who can get their room cleanest, most organized or best smelling. Who can match the most pairs of socks? Got teens? Make trips to the grocery store quality family time. Give each kid a cart and part of the list. When they successfully get everything on their list, they can shop for one item of their choosing. First to meet at a designated location in the store gets to choose a magazine or pack of gum at the register. Make unloading and putting away quality time too. Share what each member got. What meals you’ll make together. Let each child pick a new recipe and secretly shop for the ingredients. That meal is now fun, quality time too. When children are comfortable they communicate. Quality time helps nurture this relationship and that means a less stressed, healthier you.  

A mind at rest equals a body at rest. When you’ve made quality time part of you and your family’s routine, your visibly perceived age will tell no lies… or will it?

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