What’s a Pounce Pot?

The Pounce Pot website takes its name from the antique writing tool that created smooth, ready surfaces with grit. The Pounce Pot continues this tradition by preparing a smooth and ready path for healthy, vibrant living for all ages. You can learn more about pounce pots in this post, or in this post, and also here.

What’s the Pounce Pot fundamental purpose and guiding philosophy?

I created The Pounce Pot

• to empower my close circle of friends and family to live healthier, longer lives.

• to be proactive and positive about our future.

• to be curious and get to the bottom of the massive amount of info we get bombarded with on social media.

Join us!

By breaking down complex and ever-changing research into five easy to manage ideas, we can understand what we could be doing to increase our healthspan. And we can discover that we DO have the time to accomplish our goals even during a busy week.

I believe that we can avoid the cognitive and physical declines that took my precious grandmother and aunt away from our family in their early 70s.

I began writing about my personal practice of proactive aging in the Pounce Pot Post, and to share recent news and actionable tips, I created a newsletter, The Weekly Pounce.

Aging does not have to feel like a long, depressing, passive decline. We are not, however, avoiding reality or denying that life will bring us challenges.

It certainly will. 

But with the support of our chosen communities, we can proactively power up our future selves by taking actions now to build robust reserves of cognitive and physical health for our future.

This equips us to best handle life's inevitable changes with resilience, hope, and confidence.

In essence, I hope that The Pounce Pot inspires your conscious, joyful, and communal journey toward a stronger, more resilient, and truly vibrant future self. 

What’s pounce?

In the “old days,” pounce was what we would now call ground up pumice, or grit. Think of it somewhat like sand.

Of course, with four cats around me while I’m researching and writing, I couldn’t help but to also use the term “pounce” to mean the more modern term for jumping on. So, I use “pounce” as both an arcane noun (The Pounce Pot) and as an action verb (Pounce on life’s possibilities.)

Why are you going through all of this work and trouble?

That’s easy to answer: I made it my purpose in life to understand these complex issues and learn how to explain them to others. If even one person can live a better life because of The Pounce Pot, then all of this hard work and effort is worth it to me. Explore this here.

What’s the Pounce Pot Protocol?

I call the path toward proactive aging and vibrant longevity the Pounce Pot Protocol. It’s comprised of five, memorable and well-defined, essential actions that I categorized after many hundreds of hours of research into established longevity research from around the world.

The five actions are:

1. Boost Your Brain

2. Connect & Thrive

3. Harness Hidden Powers

4. Fuel Your Journey

5. Stay Active

This five-part protocol, distinctly and boldly color-coded across our digital spaces, serves as the comprehensive framework for our intentional practice. See if you can notice the color patterns, what they symbolize, and which action they are each matched with.

How can I subscribe to The Weekly Pounce? Is it free?

The Weekly Pounce brings our protocol to life. Every Friday, this newsletter:

• Breaks down complex research into fun, simple, personal, and budget-friendly weekly activities to help you practice staying proactive about your aging, even in the middle of your busy week.

• Fosters a community of friends who encourage and motivate each other.

• Emphasizes, through personal stories and practical science-backed tips, that it's never too late (or too early) to start practicing the habits that will lead to a longer and more vibrant healthspan.

• Promotes a weekly practice with purpose and awareness, a mindful engagement with life, countering passive digital consumption, inactivity, loneliness, and poor nutrition with ideas for proactive, real-life interactions with the arts, the outdoors, whole foods, physical activity, self-awareness, and community involvement.

Of course, it’s free! Subscribe here. I won’t spam you, and your data is kept private and secure. Break up with me anytime if you get overloaded. I’ll understand.

Who is writing this website? Is it AI?

Nope, I write every word, give or take a few here and there if I get stuck and need a synonym. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please fill out our form for writers.

Contact me if you have any further questions at laura.lee@pouncepot.com