What becomes less important and more important as we age

Things that once mattered a great deal may matter a lot less as you grow older.

At different points in life, different things matter more or less than they once did. Thank goodness our priorities as adolescents continue to evolve.

At each stage of life, the things that are more important and those that are less important tend to shift. While this is clearly a subjective assessment, I would suggest the following 11 items are among those that change as we age. Each reflects changes that are most commonly associated with making an increasingly healthier adjustment to life as we age.

• Concern about what others think about us. Common in youth, this tends to decrease as we get more comfortable acclimating (finally!) to who we really are and commensurately less reliant on being liked and appr