There may be activities that you are not taking part in because you feel that the opportunity to pursue them has passed. You will benefit from bringing items you have given up on for this reason back into your active daily thoughts. One big factor that causes items to be given up on is that you start to get the feeling that you are too far behind, or that you missed the chance to take part. This perspective is of the lose-lose type, because you are losing by viewing which step other people are at in a process, instead of their habits toward the goal, and are losing yet again by letting their success have an indirect impact on your success, when there is no competitive reason as to why that should be the case.
You might be able to come up with a myriad of reasons as to why you are too late to partake in an activity, or pursue a specific goal, but you don’t have to do any thinking of that type if you absorb the mindset that your current period of time is more than adequate to use to build upon. The majority of successful people could handle all of their items being seized and taken away, since they would know that the important aspect was not their status or financial condition at a given moment, but that it was their pace and direction of progress, and they would quickly move right back up to their previous fulfilling position.
Sir Alan Sugar once commented on The Apprentice UK, by saying something to the effect of: “I know that if I lost all the wealth that I had, and had to do it all over again, as long as I had my health, I know I could get it all back.” He was indirectly informing the contestants on the show, as well as the TV audience, that the only item of importance, in relation to his success, was his determination and hunger for a rise in financial control.
In an article titled “Calibration“, written by Steve Pavlina, he asked: “If you took away my blog and all my articles, and I had to start over from scratch as an anonymous blogger today, do you think I could repeat my success?” Although he was specifically making a point about how the skills he had developed over the years would greatly help bring him right back to his current position, you can get a sense that he would rise to prominence if his developed writing/communication skills were removed as well, since his resilient mindset would not allow him to feel like he had missed his opportunity to shine.
Another thing to keep in mind is the understanding that others traveled through the same process that you may be avoiding. When they were building up a set of plans and ways to implement them, they knew that there were others that were already ahead of them, who may have also been advantaged in some way, but they continued to set a focused tone. Your focus should be on the responses they developed, plans they set into action, and methods of structuring their time that they grasped. When/if you think about President Obama’s success in acquiring and maintaining a role of leadership, it will provide more value for you to analyze his steps on the way to his current position, instead of looking at his current status and distancing yourself from the thought that you could progress the same way, if that was your path of interest.
For those of you who think that you are getting too old to pursue an activity that you still have interest in, you will only travel through the day with that mindset if you are more focused on regrets than dreams. However, if more of your thinking involves dreams than regrets, it will be hard for someone to convince you that you have missed the opportunity to acquire your desired status or set of daily functions.
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Think about Dr. Seuss and William Shatner. Seuss published his first children’s book when he was 33. Shatner didn’t do Star Trek until he was 35. Most people would consider this to be the beginning of their careers, even though they were doing other things before them. I always roll my eyes at people who are depressed about turning 30.
You’re right. It’s never too late to do something. My wife’s grandmother is turning 70, and she’s taking classes on website building and such. My father went through and completed college when he was in his 40’s.
We’re only given so many years on this planet. Why do we have to create even more limitations in our little minds? You can bet that if I live to be 90 years old, I’m still going to be starting brand new projects!
Trey: Those are quite valid examples of individuals that didn’t let their age detract from their performance. Your example of someone completing college in their 40s is wonderful, and the internet is helping to reduce the importance of one’s age in usage of their product. The extra limitation you are referring to is one we certainly don’t need.
It’s interesting to think that you see this same type of reaction in teenagers. “It’s too late for me to participate in my classes” or “it’s too late for me to make new friends, I’m a junior!” You can always take advantage of situations whether it’s talking to people you never talk to or beginning to do your homework more often. This kind of lose-lose mindset loses people the rewards they could garner from their efforts.
Corey: That can be quite entertaining for the population of individuals who are older than teenagers, as the comments seem nearly ridiculous. This can be extrapolated to cases up the age ladder, as it hard to see where a line is drawn regarding potential available in a person. Age tends to be used as a description of possible future power by younger individuals, and as an excuse by people who are older than they think they should be, but quality and release of product are more relevant than any descriptive term can be.
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