Have you ever felt like you’re too old to make a serious change in your life?
Is it too late to finally get out of debt, find the kind of work you were meant to do, start your own business, find the love of your life or live your dream?
Whatever your age, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You can’t go back and change anything about your past, but you can change your future. Now is your time to take action!
It’s a very good thing these “elders” didn’t say NO to changing their lives:
- Henry David Thoreau was twenty-seven when he moved to Walden Pond, built a house, planted a garden, and began a two-year experiment in simplicity and self-reliance.
- Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
- Mother Teresa was forty when she founded the Missionaries of Charity.
- Henry Ford was fifty when he started his first manufacturing assembly line.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder never published a book until age 60!
- Dom Perignon was sixty when he produced his first champagne.
- Oscar Hammerstein II was sixty-four when he wrote the lyrics for The Sound of Music.
- Winston Churchill was sixty-five when he became Britain’s prime minister.
- Nelson Mandela was seventy-one when he was released from a South African prison, and seventy-five when he was elected president.
- Michelangelo was seventy-two when he designed the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
- Frank Lloyd Wright was ninety-one when he completed his work at the Guggenheim Museum.
- Dimitrion Yordanidis was ninety-eight years old when he ran a marathon in seven hours and thirty-three minutes, in Athens, Greece.
- Ichijirou Araya was one hundred when he climbed Mount Fuji.
Ask yourself:
- What dreams have I put off forever, that I know I need to pursue?
- What attitudes are holding me back?
- What are three small steps I can take today to move towards the achievement of my dreams?
- Who can help me? What tools do I need to succeed this time?
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer… and if you need some great encouragement along the way. Please give me a call!
To learn more about how my midlife crisis motivated me to change everything in my life and finally succeed in my most important ways, go read my books: Midlife Magic: Becoming the person you are inside! and The Midife Change Workbook.
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T.S. Eliot
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This is so true. I didn’t get around to pursuing my writing dreams until I was finally able to retire from full-time work. My first novel, co-authored with my brother, made it to audiobook when I was 58, and my first print book was published when I was 65.
And I’m so glad you did Pat! Good for you for following through! I probably wouldn’t have changed careers so drastically if I hadn’t lost my job, but I’m so glad I do! LLC