Please share a tip in the form of a haiku on exercising your brain.

Healthful: Healthful meals with adequate b-vitamins, omega-3 fats, antioxidants for brain health.

We: We all become more forgetful with age -- use notes to remember dates and details.

Keep: Keep reading close at hand and try to read 20-30 minutes a day.

The: The best way to keep your brain agile is to learn new things often.

Be: Be in the company of people with different ideas and learn from them.

A new TipTap: Haiku: It's never too late; to learn a new instrument; it keeps your mind sharp.

Play: Play "brain games" like chess and logic puzzles. Learn a foreign language, or a musical instrument.

Rather: Rather than remembering something, act like you are teaching yourself, going through the details.

Tell: Tell yourself stories. Storytelling is a good way to exercise your brain.

Believe: Believe it or not, the single most effective way of improving brain function is physical exercise.

Do: Do crossword puzzles daily! simple and pleasurable!

Solve: Solve difficult puzzles; challenge your imaginative mind; pride in achievement.

Do: Do puzzles. Read on new subjects. Write something original. Create recipes for cooking.

Good: Good advice to use your brain & plan what to say; don't blurt out what you're feeling or thinking!

Exercise: Exercise improves brain function. Walk 30 minutes before dinner every day.

Do: Do something every day that is mentally challenging.

Always: Always be too busy! after you retire, don't stop doing things that keep you mentally stimulated!

Try: Try doing things with your non-dominant hand. It helps exercise and stimulate your brain.

Always: Always carry a list of all the medications, supplements, herbs, vitamins, etc. , when visiting a doc.

Boys: Boys should read more books, and girls should do more visuospatial challenging games.

Try: Try to write your first article that you could sell to your favorite magazine. Vacation magazine!

Memorize: Memorize poetry, or passages of your favorite song, book, or speech will bring joy all the time.

Imagination: Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere!.

Anyone: Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert einstein.

Success: Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.

The: The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step!.

Don't: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant!.

Happiness: Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open!.

Try: Try and fail, but don't fail to try!.

Your: Your worth is measured by what you are, not by what you have.

The: The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination!.

To: To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is & rise above it.

What: What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Take: Take time. Much can be gained by patience!.

What: What appears to be the end, may really be a new beginning!.

Happiness: Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Reach: Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

HOPE: Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark!.

Hope: Hope is the best medicine. Once u choose it, anything is possible.

When: When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top!.

"Character: "character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think." emerson.

Remembering: Remembering names is good exercise. Try to associate new names with something you can relate too.

To: To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "oscar wilde".

The: The most valuable lessons are the ones u learn after u think u know it all.

Ability: Ability can take u to the top, but it takes character to keep u there.

Learning: Learning a new skills helps keep your brain. The brain loves novelty.

Speed: Speed fires up your brain neurons. Increase your speed of typing as brain exercise.

Those: Those who want to succeed will find a way. Those who don't will find an excuse.

The: The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

U: U only live once, but if u do it right, once is enough!.

Dreams: Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Never: Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

There: There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

The: The formula for success is hope plus determination.

Being: Being successful is excelling at what u do, & being patient enough to keep doing it.

Never: Never climb over others in your desperation to reach for the stars.

U: U cannot measure your success because it lies within the lives of those u have helped.

Success: Success doesn't always bring happiness, but happiness is always a form of success.

Success: Success begins when u believe that something is possible.

Success: Success is 1% inspiration & 99% perspiration.

No: No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.

To: To chop a tree fast, spend twice the time sharpening your ax.

The: The darker the night, the brighter the stars.

Good: Good health is 1 blessing that cannot be bought.

Patience: Patience is like a tree with bitter roots that bears sweet fruit.

There: There are many paths to the mountain top. Only there, u will find that the view is the same.

Gems: Gems are polished by rubbing, just as men are made brilliant by trials.

Perseverance: Perseverance is the water that wears away the stone.

Ingenuity: Ingenuity lights the path to success.

Silence: Silence is the trusted friend of wisdom.

Daily: Daily crossword puzzles keep your brain active.

A: A bad attitude is like a flat tire.

Empathy: Empathy is your pain i feel in my heart!

There: There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down & lifting people up!

Character: Character is the ability to say no when everyone except your conscience is screaming yes.

Better: Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings by counting your troubl.

A: A happy person is not one in a certain circumstance, but one with a certain attitude.