1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,200 If you think you're too old to be successful, I want you to think again. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,880 Now really think hard about that. 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,200 Are you really too old to be successful? 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,480 This is a longstanding myth that many older folks believe. 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,920 And I'm talking older folks, we're talking 40 plus. 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:19,320 So that's not really old. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,480 I'm within that age bracket. 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:29,520 But yet that belief seems to perpetuate itself over time with that age group and beyond. 9 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,800 But science really debunks it. 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,160 In fact, the research basically calls the myth bullshit. 11 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:40,000 And this is what we're going to explore in this episode. 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,400 We're going to talk about why this myth has persisted with so many people that could have 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,400 reached their potential and have not because they believe the myth. 14 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,760 Plus, I'm going to discuss some of the science that breaks the myth. 15 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,920 And later in the episode, I'm going to give you strategies to overcome the thinking that 16 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,840 you're old. 17 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:04,040 I'm not saying you're old. 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:10,520 I'm going to give you some strategies to overcome the thinking that you're too old for success, 19 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,520 not that you're old because no one's really old. 20 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:13,520 Age is your relative. 21 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:14,520 We're going to talk about age too. 22 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:21,080 We're going to talk about the concept of age and how age came about, how we keep a score, 23 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,080 basically. 24 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:27,000 And that's on this episode of Life Unscripted. 25 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Welcome to Life Unscripted. 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,760 This podcast that just hits you with the hard truth that life has no script and everything 27 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,080 you've been taught is an illusion. 28 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:39,400 I'm your host Alan Stafford and join me as we explore how we can deprogram our minds 29 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:46,120 of the thoughts that age is a factor to success. 30 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:51,280 All right, welcome back, folks. 31 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:57,000 Just this age thing, this whole thing, this whole thing, keeping age to me is a toxic ideology. 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,280 It's a toxic way of thinking. 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,280 But I get it. 34 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,320 I get we need to keep age. 35 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:08,880 We need to keep it for very specific reasons due to psychological development in humans, 36 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,040 but it really does mess with people's heads. 37 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,760 I mean, age is just like most of the other stuff in which we base our beliefs on. 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:19,920 It's just a fictional reality. 39 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:21,560 But there's some, let me backtrack. 40 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,000 There's some hard science to keep in age. 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,120 I'm not saying that we shouldn't keep age. 42 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:33,280 However, in the sense that it hurts us and keeps us from achieving our dreams at a later 43 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,960 age, that's the toxic part I'm talking about because it's really senseless. 44 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,760 It actually makes no sense if you think about it. 45 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,200 And we're going to break that down in this episode. 46 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,880 I mean, can you imagine that if we didn't even have the programming to think we were 47 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,600 too old to succeed, how many people would have followed their dreams and perhaps become 48 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,880 financially successful? 49 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,640 And again, we're going to define success. 50 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:58,280 Success isn't just about finances or money or wealth or any of that. 51 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,480 Success is about what you interpret success as. 52 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:02,640 But we'll get into that. 53 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:07,160 But can you just imagine if you didn't believe that you were too old to achieve something, 54 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,160 what would you achieve? 55 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,160 Think about it right now. 56 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:14,000 If you're 40 plus and you feel like your life has not been successful, think about what 57 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,400 would you do different? 58 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,360 What would you want to do if money were no object, if time were no object? 59 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:22,360 There's a lot. 60 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,400 I bet you there's a lot you'd want to do. 61 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,840 Maybe start a family, maybe build a business, maybe climb Mount Everest, maybe just climb 62 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,240 any mountain for that matter. 63 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,240 Some of us just have a hard time climbing a hill. 64 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,560 But you may want to travel the world. 65 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:41,600 Maybe you want to be a chef or, I don't know, write a book. 66 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,800 There's a lot of things you probably want to do that you feel you can't do because it's 67 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:45,800 too late. 68 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,760 And we're going to break that myth. 69 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,800 I mean, that myth plays with humanity's head. 70 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,200 It really does. 71 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,280 And I've got a story on why this is important to me coming up here in a little bit. 72 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,360 So what I have in store for you in this episode is understanding why we even keep age. 73 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,320 So let's start with that first, okay? 74 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:09,480 Why age is relevant, how we think about age and how it came to be, that we keep this chronological 75 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:16,120 order of humanity and compartmentalize them into these nifty little groups of ages, you 76 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:22,080 know, zero to five, six to 10 and so forth, tweens and teens and young adults and elderly 77 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,000 and senior citizens and all that stuff. 78 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 We'll talk about how that came to be. 79 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,080 Because again, that's not a universal law, even though time exists in the universe, it 80 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,400 doesn't exist in the way that man keeps time, if you understand what I'm saying. 81 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,000 So it's basically what I call fictional reality. 82 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:43,520 It's just something that we've developed as humans in order to track various things. 83 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,040 And we'll talk about that. 84 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,440 And we're going to talk about what does it even mean to talk about success? 85 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,520 I mean, what does that look like? 86 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,680 What does success look like to you? 87 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:53,920 Everybody's success is different. 88 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,800 So when I'm talking about success, let's not assume that I'm talking about wealth, although 89 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,120 a lot of people think wealth is success. 90 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,360 But the reality is that success is really defined by the individual. 91 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,880 It's a subjective ideology. 92 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,000 We're going to talk about why the myth persists. 93 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,200 Why we think that when we're over 40 or over 50, 60, 70, it doesn't matter what age, we 94 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,480 think we're too old to achieve that success, the thing that we want. 95 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,280 And then folks, I'm going to throw in some science here. 96 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:27,180 We're going to talk about a book called The Formula. 97 00:05:27,180 --> 00:05:32,720 This is a book that challenges conventional success timelines, that basically breaks it 98 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:41,640 down scientifically based on research from this theoretical physicist who wrote the book. 99 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,200 And then we're going to give you tools on how to rewrite the script in your head that 100 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,080 says you are too old because you're not age. 101 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:52,760 Again, it's just a number and there's a lot more that goes in to your ability to succeed 102 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,560 than just the number itself. 103 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:01,440 But before we get through the meat of this episode and the tools to help you get over 104 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:08,560 the hump of the age myth, and that's the only hump I'm talking about, I'm going to tell 105 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,480 you a little story about why this topic is important to me and it should be important 106 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,000 to you. 107 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,960 And the fact of our, I'm tongue twisted today, and I'm going to talk to you about the journey 108 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,200 that it's taken me to overcome that myth, the decades. 109 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,440 Okay, we're going to talk about that when we come back. 110 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,040 Okay, welcome back. 111 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:39,440 The reason this topic came to mind is because I grew up with a mother who always, it was 112 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,320 her mantra to me, whether she knew it or not. 113 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,240 Her message was always, I'm too old to do this, I'm too old to do that. 114 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,200 And she was in her 30s and 40s, folks. 115 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,120 This is not like she was in her 70s or 80s. 116 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,200 We're talking when she was younger than I am right now. 117 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:04,240 And the story goes that my mom was a very gifted designer, clothing designer. 118 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:09,440 By trade, she was a mathematician and a programmer, but she was very creative and she still is 119 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:18,280 very creative, but she can look at a pattern, look at clothing, design it and make it herself 120 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:19,280 from scratch. 121 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,280 It was amazing. 122 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:28,240 And it would be the same design as maybe a brand name, a top design brand. 123 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,960 And when we, when me and my brothers would tell her, hey mom, you should be a fashion 124 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:32,960 designer. 125 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:38,000 You should be like one of these brands that, what do they call them, fashion? 126 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,400 I don't even, I'm at a loss for words for these people. 127 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,840 You know, the fashion people, yeah, those guys and gals. 128 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:49,400 But her message to us was, I'm always, I'm too old for this. 129 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,080 And I'm thinking, how are you too old for this? 130 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,560 Her idea was that you have to start at a very young age. 131 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,160 And this is everyone else's idea that thinks they're too old to do anything, that you have 132 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,160 to start at a young age. 133 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:01,480 And that's a myth. 134 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,320 But the problem, and this may be a problem with you too, a challenge I should say, is 135 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:11,040 that that mantra stuck in my head for the next several decades of my life, thinking I'm 136 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,520 too old to succeed. 137 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:20,920 Even in my 20s, even in my 30s, even in my 40s, even in my 50s, I believed I was too 138 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:26,240 old to do anything and that my life was over and I'm going to be dying soon. 139 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,160 Talk about a head job. 140 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:30,560 But this is what happens. 141 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,760 This is what society does to people. 142 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,640 They put these ideas into their head, getting them to think that they're too old and we 143 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:43,000 begin to believe this nonsense and we begin to act this way and we don't accomplish what 144 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,800 we want to and we die unhappy. 145 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,960 And so the whole point of this podcast is to get you out of that mindset, to teach you 146 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,440 that age is a number. 147 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,960 It's only relative to how you feel and what you're capable of doing and you're capable 148 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,080 of a lot more than you think you're capable of. 149 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,440 I can guarantee you that, my friend. 150 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:06,520 Needless to say, I was able to fight through that script that was embedded in my mind at 151 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,020 a young age. 152 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:09,520 But it took a lot of training. 153 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:10,520 It took a lot of reading. 154 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,320 It took a lot of self-reflection. 155 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,920 The title took a lot of exploration, personal development, personal growth, whatever you 156 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,320 want to call it. 157 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:19,880 It took a lot of that. 158 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,400 I don't want you to have to go through that. 159 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,000 So I'm going to give you some tools to help you break free from that thinking. 160 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:32,200 And the first part, the first part of that tool is understanding where age comes from, 161 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,720 why we keep age and it's just something inside of our heads. 162 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:36,720 And that's it. 163 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,360 Our body's age, yes. 164 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,000 Everything ages, yes. 165 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,520 But if you're 80, you can still maintain a healthy body and a healthy mind. 166 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,880 You don't have to succumb to the perceived notion that as you age, you decay. 167 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:55,440 I mean, there is decay going on in your body, but you don't have to succumb to that and 168 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:56,840 think, I'm too old. 169 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,840 I can't do this here because I'm 80 or I'm 70 or I'm 60 or I'm 50 or I'm 40, any of that 170 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:01,840 stuff. 171 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:02,840 So that's all nonsense right there. 172 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,320 Just get that out of your mind because it's nonsense. 173 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,240 If you really want to take care of yourself, take care of your diet. 174 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:14,080 Walk out, get plenty of sleep and drink lots of water because an age will take care of 175 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,080 itself. 176 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,400 It won't even matter at that point. 177 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:17,400 So let's break this down. 178 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,320 What is the concept of age? 179 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:25,000 Age basically measures the length of time an individual or an object or entity, meaning 180 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,440 anything that exists in this universe has existed. 181 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,840 And we typically express it in years. 182 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,440 You know, that's how we understand it as humans. 183 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,640 365 days make one year. 184 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,520 That's not the same anywhere else outside of our planet. 185 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,960 That's pretty much indicative to our planet and the way we think. 186 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,160 But the question is, has time always been kept by man? 187 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,000 First of all, we have to come to the assumption that we're the only humans, that we're the 188 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 only living sentient beings on this planet that can keep time. 189 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,760 I mean, there might be other planets, but this isn't a conversation about that with 190 00:10:58,760 --> 00:10:59,760 people on it. 191 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:06,400 But we are the only people that I know of, the only species that keeps time the way 192 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:07,400 we do. 193 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:14,760 And the practice of recording human age began in ancient times, where we have the earliest 194 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:19,760 recorded systems of weights and measures, which include the measurement of time and age, 195 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,080 way back in the third or fourth millennium BC. 196 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:28,760 I mean, we're talking about civilizations such as those in Mesopotamia and Egypt. 197 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:33,960 These civilizations needed to measure systems for practical purposes like agriculture, you 198 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,000 know, for trade and for legal systems. 199 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,200 So the practice likely evolved from the necessity to track seasonal cycles in life stages for 200 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,800 social and religious reasons. 201 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:51,200 This helped aid in the structuring of societies and their respective rituals and norms. 202 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:58,160 So age itself is manmade in the sense of how we keep age for ourselves. 203 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:03,280 So when you think about it, we said, this age, this age, this happens to us in society. 204 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:04,280 This is supposed to happen. 205 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:05,480 This is the rituals we go through. 206 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,320 This is when we become a man or a woman. 207 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:12,840 And it certainly has tied to your biological clock for men and women, especially for women, 208 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,560 when you, when you start your period and you become a woman, so to speak, you know, or 209 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:22,880 you have your quinceanera in the Latin cultures or your sweet 16, you become a woman type of 210 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:23,880 thing. 211 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,000 So age is relevant and keep in track of that. 212 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,680 But that's all the age is for. 213 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:31,080 It has nothing to do with your ability to succeed. 214 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,080 That again is a myth. 215 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,080 And we're going to get into that. 216 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,080 We're going to keep getting into that. 217 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,560 We're pushing that down your mind. 218 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:40,040 So you understand that age is nothing but a number in that it's fictional reality in 219 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:45,240 the sense of your ability to achieve what you want to in your life. 220 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:51,320 And I'm going to give you plenty of examples of people who have been successful after 40, 221 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,440 50, 60, 70, 80, 90. 222 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,440 Folks it's true. 223 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:57,840 Okay, we'll get into that. 224 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:58,960 Don't get me wrong folks. 225 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:05,400 Age recording age has benefits to society and especially with someone like with OCD 226 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:10,760 like myself, I like to categorize things and having spent 30 years in marketing. 227 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:15,840 Age is relevant because it's based on the products that we sell, the messaging that 228 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:21,800 we create and the legality of people's ages, whether they can buy or not buy a product. 229 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:29,920 So age has its place and keeping that age, but it doesn't necessarily translate into 230 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:30,920 success. 231 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:35,960 I think the only time that age might play a factor in someone's success, if it has to 232 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:42,400 do with their cognition, if somebody has cognitive impairment and can't do basic functions, then 233 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:47,160 I think age at that point is going to play a factor for anything they do and has nothing 234 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,160 to do with success. 235 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,080 But success themselves could be the fact that they're walking or talking or eating or whatever 236 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,920 it might be at any age and that still could be successful. 237 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,200 So that brings me to the topic, what is success? 238 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,760 We know that age is a fictional reality in the sense of achieving your dreams and your 239 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,960 goals and becoming successful. 240 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:11,840 It has a practical application in how we categorize humanity and our life events, but when it 241 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:18,680 comes to an individual's ability to succeed, it's irrelevant, completely 100% irrelevant. 242 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:22,560 You're going to have to rewrite that script in your head and we'll talk about that. 243 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,040 But success is another fictional reality inside your head. 244 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,360 It's another thing that you're taught, oh, you've got to go to this school or you've 245 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,080 got to work at this job or you've got to have this career, you've got to make this 246 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,920 kind of money or drive this kind of car, then you're successful. 247 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:36,320 Nonsense. 248 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,720 Success itself is a multifaceted and subjective concept, as I said. 249 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:44,520 Again, it's what we believe to be successful, that is success. 250 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,960 I think I kind of confused myself on that one. 251 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,640 Whatever we think success is, is success. 252 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,280 But for the sake of our discussion, so that we don't get into a debate here with people 253 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:03,720 sending me emails about success, we're going to limit success to personal and professional 254 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:09,520 achievements, be it family, fame, wealth, physical strength, building a business or anything 255 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,600 that comes along the lines of personal or professional achievement. 256 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,800 We're going to simplify this, we're just going to stick to that, those topics defining success. 257 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:25,120 Okay, folks, when we come back, we're going to define the various ways in which this myth 258 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:29,440 has perpetuated itself. 259 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:36,200 We're going to discuss, there's four different reasons why this myth still lives on in us. 260 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,680 And we're going to break that down, I'm going to give you some successful people who've 261 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:44,400 been successful after the age of 40, all the way up until after the age of 90. 262 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,040 And these are just the famous people that gained fame. 263 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,040 There are a lot of people that have become successful that aren't famous, but they're 264 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,000 successful because their success is different than these other peoples that we're going 265 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000 to talk about. 266 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Okay. 267 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,880 And then we'll get into the strategies for getting the script out of your head, just 268 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,680 rewriting, deprogramming it and reprogramming your mind. 269 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:09,000 All right, that's when we come back. 270 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,840 So why do we think that we are too old to succeed? 271 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:19,400 I mean, there's several reasons why this myth persists in our society, in our thinking. 272 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:25,400 And the first one that I'm going to cover is that we tend to be biased towards a younger 273 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:26,600 crowd. 274 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:31,560 We tend to believe that they're more innovative and have more energy, basically undervaluing 275 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:39,480 the experience and the wisdom that us older cats have, you know, as far as understanding. 276 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,440 And I find that to be the opposite. 277 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:48,720 I think in reality, the first thing that you should think about is younger people really 278 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,600 don't have that wisdom. 279 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,000 How can they be more innovative? 280 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:59,200 They may not be stuck in this perpetual script of a certain way of thinking true, but when 281 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:05,000 it comes to innovation, don't you think for one second that the age has a benefit? 282 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:13,360 The more experience you have, which usually equates to an older generation, the more innovative 283 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:18,880 you can be because you can draw upon all that experience and be innovative in your thinking 284 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,360 and in your creation. 285 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:26,700 So to write off the bat, that should be the first Lithmus test for you when you're trying 286 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:28,040 to debunk this myth. 287 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:32,120 The fact that younger people are innovative, now they might have more energy granted when 288 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:37,080 I get up in the morning, my back hurts, I'm in pain, I have zero energy, trust me. 289 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:41,840 But as the day goes on, my energy progresses and if I eat healthy, get rest and exercise, 290 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,360 I have the energy of a 20 year old. 291 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:46,920 At least I like to think so. 292 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:47,920 In my mind, I do. 293 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,800 I don't feel like I'm a day over 19. 294 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:57,640 But in any event, you have to understand that this perpetual myth that the younger generation 295 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,080 is more innovative is completely malarkey. 296 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,080 It's a myth. 297 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,040 It's not even real. 298 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:08,200 Because if you look at average CEOs, they're not in their 20s or 30s. 299 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,760 The media likes to play that up. 300 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:15,160 And then that's what our next reason is for why this myth of being too old to be successful 301 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:20,200 perpetuates itself is that the media representation, success stories in the media often focused 302 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,160 on young entrepreneurs and prodigies. 303 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,520 How many prodigies are out there? 304 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,040 A dozen? 305 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,040 Five? 306 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,040 One? 307 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,880 You keep hearing a couple of them. 308 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,000 Like the Mark Zuckerbergs when they were young. 309 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 They were in college. 310 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Okay. 311 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 There's one. 312 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,440 There might be a couple more. 313 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,200 But in reality, is that what you want as success? 314 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,800 A tech company? 315 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,840 You can do that in your 40s, 50s, 60s. 316 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,440 You don't have to be young. 317 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,080 You could take all that experience with you. 318 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:56,840 So the media represents basically the success stories of the youth, of the young entrepreneurs 319 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,720 basically skewing our perception of what success is and when success happens. 320 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:05,120 And the fact that it happens at a younger age and nothing to be further from the truth 321 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:06,200 again. 322 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:11,000 So we've got, we've got the societal bias towards younger people saying that they're 323 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,520 innovative and have more energy and the media coming out and saying, oh, we're going to 324 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:20,520 highlight a few stories of these young entrepreneurs and we get into our mind that, oh my God, 325 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:21,520 you have to be young. 326 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:26,480 You have to be this, this young 20 year old, you know, in college or right out of college 327 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:27,480 to be successful. 328 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,240 And again, those are just myths. 329 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:31,240 They're perceptions. 330 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,800 They're not based in any scientific reality whatsoever. 331 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,200 And here's another one. 332 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:43,920 There is a misconception of success that success happens at a fixed point or peak in early 333 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,480 life. 334 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:50,080 We think that you have to be at 25 success has to happen or forget about it. 335 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,000 And again, not true. 336 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,920 I don't even know where that myth comes from. 337 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,680 It's just a misconception of our society that we believe that. 338 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:02,880 And again, that's probably perpetuated through the media and our own bias towards the younger 339 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:07,480 generation having that innovative mind when it's not really true. 340 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,080 And then we have the justifications for personal shortcomings, folks. 341 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:17,560 I mean, this myth basically is used defensively by the person or the individual to justify 342 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:24,280 them not achieving their perceived success, or it could be to reflect deeper social anxieties 343 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,960 about aging and productivity. 344 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,840 So all of the stuff that we've talked about can get into your mind and then you'd begin 345 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:34,680 to justify it, you know, for your personal shortcomings. 346 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,200 I'm too old. 347 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,240 I should have started at this age. 348 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,520 You know, you might not believe that you can achieve it. 349 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:46,400 There might be a lot more going on, but really it comes down to just justifying, you know, 350 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,560 your shortcomings, which again is in your mind. 351 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:49,560 It's in your head. 352 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,760 It's in that script that you've been programmed to think. 353 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,760 Okay, so we're going to talk about some of the people that have been very successful in 354 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,400 life after the age of 40. 355 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,840 In fact, after the age of 50, 60 and 70. 356 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,680 And the first one I'm going to bring up and you probably, you already know this person. 357 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:12,040 It's Colonel Sanders, you know, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the KFC guy. 358 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,680 I know and people are being, well, this is the only one that I ever hear about. 359 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,920 Well, no, there's a lot of them, a lot of people that have been successful, but he's 360 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,600 been very successful. 361 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:27,160 This is just an example of somebody older who became very successful, meaning you can 362 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,160 achieve that. 363 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,840 I mean, Colonel Sanders, he didn't begin his franchise, I mean, franchise restaurant, 364 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:40,720 you know, idea KFC and his fried chicken until he was age 65 folks, 65 years old. 365 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:48,400 I mean, if you haven't heard of KFC by now, then you're probably, you probably, you probably 366 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,400 don't like chicken. 367 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:55,640 I mean, I can't imagine anybody in this country, even outside of this country, because KFC 368 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,880 is all over the world. 369 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,000 But Ray Kroc, another one, Ray Kroc was a shake salesman. 370 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:07,360 He was 52 years old when he joined McDonald's, basically transforming it from a, from just 371 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:12,520 a standalone place up here in San Bernardino, California to a international franchise. 372 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:13,920 52 years old. 373 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:19,480 Now you, now that's a little, to me, that's young, but 65 is a good age. 374 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:24,640 I mean, you have Julia Childs, you know, the celebrated American chef and author and television 375 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:30,560 personality, whose first book was published at 49, became a TV show host on the French 376 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,520 chef at age 51. 377 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,560 I mean, Laura Engle Wilder, Laura Ingles Wilder, if you've, if you're, if you're of age, then 378 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,320 you'll know Little House on the Prairie, the show. 379 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,320 This is what Little House on the Prairie was based on, Laura Engle Wilder's books. 380 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:49,840 She didn't begin writing her books until she was in her 60s and published her first book 381 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:56,760 at the age of 65, which later went on to become The Little House on the Prairie, a very successful 382 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,760 television series. 383 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:06,720 I mean, Vera Wang, a fashion designer, she became a designer at the age of 40. 384 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,360 She was a figure skater and a journalist before that. 385 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:13,560 I mean, how do you go from a figure skater and a journalist to a fashion designer? 386 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,680 Very popular brand, Vera Wang. 387 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:23,880 So she's not only, she not only, you know, switched careers, which a lot of people do, 388 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,360 switched careers mid life. 389 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:30,400 I mean, she became a very famous fashion designer. 390 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,880 You have Ann Mary Roberts Moses, also known as Grandma Moses. 391 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,280 She didn't begin painting until age 78. 392 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:44,640 This is due to arthritis in our hands, where she couldn't do embroidery anymore. 393 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,920 And she wasn't a famous embroiderer. 394 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:52,960 She just did embroidery, but decided to turn to painting, which later made her famous. 395 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:58,160 I mean, she kept painting up until the death, her death, up until age 101. 396 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:04,520 And then you have Fajah Singh, ran his first marathon at the age of 89 and ran until he 397 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,880 was 100. 398 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,680 So what am I saying to you folks? 399 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:13,480 The big takeaway here is, yes, these people are famous, but they're not born famous. 400 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:20,680 They have achieved fame based on what they've accomplished at their age. 401 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:26,640 It doesn't matter how old you are to be successful and forget about their fame. 402 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:27,640 They're just a few. 403 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,960 There are many more who have reached that level of success that have not made it into 404 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,200 the media and that's okay. 405 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,880 And these were probably their mentors or their role models. 406 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,440 The point I'm trying to drive into your mind is that you're not too old to succeed, not 407 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,920 in the least bit. 408 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:50,520 And there's scientific proof to prove that, which I turned to the formula, the universal 409 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:55,040 law of success by Albert Laszlo Barbazai. 410 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,000 I can't even pronounce his name. 411 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000 I'm sorry. 412 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:03,760 He offers, you know, insightful analysis into the dynamics of success, basically challenging 413 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:09,520 traditional views and highlighting often overlooked factors that influence success. 414 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,880 I'm going to go through his, uh, his key points quickly. 415 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,680 This is based on research and science that he's done. 416 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:23,440 And basically his science was looking at scientists, theoretical physicists like Einstein, who 417 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:29,080 believed that if you hadn't peaked in your thirties, then success was not going to happen 418 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:35,320 to you as a scientist later in age, where Laszlo basically said, Balarke. 419 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:42,200 And then his research found that it was actually older scientists in their 50s, 60s and 70s 420 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:48,360 who became successful in their research, which led him to write this book. 421 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:54,280 Basically Laszlo Barbazai, I'll call him Barbazai because I mean, that's, I can't pronounce 422 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,280 his name. 423 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,760 I'll call him Barbazai. 424 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,520 Um, basically challenge the notion that success is predominantly achieved at a young age. 425 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:07,320 Basically what he's saying is that success can happen at any age and it's really not 426 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:13,640 contingent on age, but his analysis indicates that what matters is the continuous effort 427 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,840 and persistent in your field and what you're doing. 428 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:23,280 If you're consistent, we consistency, I mean, that's a whole, that's a whole different podcast. 429 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,320 I'm talking about the importance and value of consistency because there's two schools 430 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:27,680 of thoughts on that. 431 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:33,080 But basically if you're consistent and you're persistent, it's achievable. 432 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,080 Your success is achievable. 433 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:40,000 I believe that, I believe that because anytime I've set forth and set my goals and I've become, 434 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,760 I've written them down, I've developed my strategy and I've been consistent. 435 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,680 I have achieved that success, mastering software, writing a book. 436 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:49,840 It doesn't matter. 437 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:55,560 I have achieved success every time I set out to be consistent and persistent. 438 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,880 It's when I drop off and decide I don't want to do it that I don't gain success. 439 00:26:58,880 --> 00:26:59,880 And that's, that's obvious. 440 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,840 And it doesn't matter what age you are. 441 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,360 And here's another kicker that discovered in the book, the formula, is that it doesn't 442 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:06,360 have to do with talent. 443 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:09,280 Because I know some of you are going like, oh, these are, some of the people are talented. 444 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:10,520 I'm not talented. 445 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:11,840 That's not true. 446 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,480 It has to do with your network. 447 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,800 Who's in your network? 448 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,600 If you don't have anybody in your network, go find people to put in your network. 449 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,400 Begin to network with people. 450 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:27,880 If you're a senior citizen, whatever that means nowadays, if you're 50, 60, 70, find 451 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,520 people that can help you, that can network with you, that can give you ideas, that can 452 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,760 support you, that can guide you. 453 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:34,760 And there's nothing wrong with that. 454 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,160 And it's easy to make friends. 455 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,280 You just have to get out of your comfort zone. 456 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,840 And I know there's a lot of older people out there that they're stuck in their ways. 457 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,920 Folks, if you want to be successful, you got to get out of that mold that you're in. 458 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:53,000 You actually have to break free of that, get into your discomfort zone and begin to feel 459 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,520 uncomfortable. 460 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,160 And that's when you begin to grow and begin to see progress. 461 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:03,200 It's not when you're sitting in your home watching reruns of the Price is Right game 462 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:10,560 show or whatever, Hogan's Hero or any of those other shows back in the 60s and 70s. 463 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,800 And basically in your networks here, you want to be in networks that offer diversity, where 464 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:15,800 information flows. 465 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,120 And when I mean information flows, you can exchange information with other people, get 466 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:23,520 information, exchange, share ideas. 467 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,120 Let them know who you are. 468 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,320 Let them know what you do. 469 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,760 There's nothing wrong with saying, hey, I'm a new real estate guy. 470 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:35,960 I'm 67 years old and I just got my real estate license and I want to sell houses, you know? 471 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,880 Just let people know what you want to do. 472 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:38,880 Build that network up. 473 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,520 But here's the thing. 474 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:45,680 You can be very well connected, but if you don't perform, forget about success. 475 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:51,160 Again, performance comes back to being consistent and producing quality work. 476 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,400 So if you're going to do this half-assed and say, I just want to be a real estate agent 477 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:01,440 or I want to be a, you know, a business owner and I'm just going to kind of go through the 478 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:02,440 motions. 479 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,440 I'm 50. 480 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:04,440 I'm entitled to this. 481 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:05,440 That's not going to happen. 482 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:06,940 You're going to have to perform. 483 00:29:06,940 --> 00:29:07,940 You're going to have to be consistent. 484 00:29:07,940 --> 00:29:10,400 You're going to have to be persistent. 485 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:11,640 Then your network can help you. 486 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,640 It doesn't matter how well connected you are if you're not doing any of that stuff. 487 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:15,640 It really doesn't. 488 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,360 Because at that point, you're not producing anything. 489 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,040 You're not producing quality. 490 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,420 You're not out there, you know, doing what you need to do to be successful. 491 00:29:24,420 --> 00:29:27,000 So don't even think that's going to happen at that point. 492 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:33,480 And folks, the takeaway from the book, the formula is that success can happen at any 493 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:39,160 age to anyone across any type of profession. 494 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:47,640 Whether you want to be an artist, a physicist, a writer, a banker, a broker, a realtor, whatever 495 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:54,000 it is you want to be, a site hustler, you know, an online business entrepreneur. 496 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,400 It doesn't matter the industry that you're in. 497 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,400 The formula basically is consistent, persistent, build networks. 498 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,680 And you know what? 499 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,560 Fake it till you make it. 500 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:11,760 If you don't have success behind you already, fabricate the success. 501 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:17,280 You can embellish a little bit to help yourself get noticed. 502 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:18,400 There's nothing wrong with that. 503 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,920 I mean, I wouldn't flat out lie, but embellish your story a little bit. 504 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,120 Build credibility. 505 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,120 Build success that you've already done. 506 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:34,920 And embellish that because that alone will help you even get further with your network. 507 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:35,920 Okay. 508 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,200 So our key takeaways in this segment is that, again, you're running a script in your mind 509 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,640 that you're thinking you're too old to succeed and that is a myth. 510 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:43,640 It's not true. 511 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:49,400 It's based upon, you know, society, societal thinking, our belief systems, the media, how 512 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:58,120 it portrays younger folks versus an aging population and so forth. 513 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,760 We also understand that there have been people who have been very successful at a later time, 514 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,160 at a later date in their life. 515 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,960 There's countless numbers of people, not just a few that I read. 516 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,760 There's countless numbers of them. 517 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:16,160 And we understand that science is on our side as we age because really it doesn't have anything 518 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,160 to do with age. 519 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,600 And remember age is just a number. 520 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:25,480 It's fabricated by man in a sense of how we categorize our life span, put us in the little 521 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,240 nice little chunks or groups. 522 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,800 But what it comes down to is how persistent you are, how consistent you are, the quality 523 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,520 of your work and how well you network with people and get out there. 524 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:40,720 And you do that, I will guarantee you will be successful because I've seen it happen. 525 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,840 I've seen it happen with me and others who are persistent. 526 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,280 It comes down to what is the price you're willing to pay to be successful? 527 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,320 What is it you're willing to do and you got to go do that? 528 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:54,840 I know easier said than done, but you don't have to be young to be successful. 529 00:31:54,840 --> 00:32:00,120 Okay, when we come back, we're going to talk about rewriting the success scripts. 530 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,680 How we can get you to change your thinking. 531 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,480 That's when we come back. 532 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,120 How do we rewrite these success scripts in our head? 533 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,760 How do we get out of this? 534 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,200 But first we need to understand one thing. 535 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,520 Okay, so the success scripts basically are internalized beliefs. 536 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,640 They're how we believe and they're perpetuated by what we talked about earlier. 537 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,760 They're perpetuated by cultural messages. 538 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:31,000 They're influenced by the media, personal experiences, early education and even parental 539 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000 guidance. 540 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:37,960 Our parents, like in my case, basically wrote that script in my head telling me that after 541 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,120 a certain age you're too old to achieve anything. 542 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,120 And that's not true. 543 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,200 That's absolutely not true. 544 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,800 So we have to understand that success scripts are internalized in our own thinking based 545 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,640 on societal and impact on society and what other people say and do. 546 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,480 Once we realize that, we can realize that it's just a bunch of BS. 547 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,600 We can move on beyond that. 548 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:05,480 Begin to realize this is not true, but I can achieve. 549 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,960 But the challenge is, is you're going to have to get these common scripts that affect you, 550 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:16,720 such as I'm too old to start a new venture, innovation is a young person's game, or the 551 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,320 opportunities diminish as one ages. 552 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,680 These are all again BS. 553 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,280 These scripts lead to self-doubt, folks. 554 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:30,640 They reduce your ambition and lead to a withdrawal from you pursuing any new goals. 555 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,160 All this can affect your personal and professional life very significantly. 556 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,240 It can actually cause you to get a divorce. 557 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,920 And I'm not laughing at the fact that you can get a divorce, but there have been people. 558 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,320 I knew a couple, let me tell you a true story here. 559 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:50,040 I knew a couple where the wife would beat emotionally, I'm not physically, but beat 560 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,640 the husband up basically saying, why weren't you successful? 561 00:33:54,640 --> 00:34:01,360 Because she would base what their life should be on a wealthier family's life. 562 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:06,400 So she would always complain to him, well, if you would have done this, we could have 563 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,280 been successful and wealthy and we would have been like the Joneses, for example. 564 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,560 This is a true story. 565 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,560 I've heard this couple argue over that. 566 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,600 It created such stress in their marriage. 567 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:24,040 I mean, they didn't get divorced, but they didn't have a very pleasant lifestyle either. 568 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:30,320 There was always misery and discomfort because she was always holding him to a higher standard 569 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:35,600 because she saw another couple who had a lot of wealth, who were successful in her eyes, 570 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,760 and he didn't believe that he can be successful. 571 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:43,840 So that belief system led to the lifestyle that they lived, which was unhappy. 572 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,240 So it has an impact on you when you think that way, whether you think it or not. 573 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:49,240 Here's what I want you to do. 574 00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:53,920 I want you to take, not right now if you're driving, but if you're sitting down or later 575 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:58,560 this evening or wherever you are, whenever, what time of day it doesn't really matter, 576 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:04,320 start a journal in self-reflection to uncover your personal success scripts. 577 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,880 Things you want to write down are, you know, what stops me from starting new projects? 578 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:13,720 Or do I feel my age affects my professional credibility? 579 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:17,960 So for example, if you're, I'll use the real estate example again, if you're wanting to 580 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,480 be a very successful realtor and you're 67 years old, you basically want to ask yourself, 581 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,120 what stops me from starting that career? 582 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:26,800 What's stopping you? 583 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,440 Is it yourself limiting beliefs that you're too old? 584 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,600 Well, that's, that's not an excuse. 585 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,000 It's a myth. 586 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000 We've already talked about how it's not true. 587 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,040 We've seen examples, talked about examples of people who've made it. 588 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,800 There's countless other people. 589 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,040 So you want to keep a journal. 590 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,760 And when you write this journal or when you keep this journal, I would open up to some 591 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,760 trusted peers. 592 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,080 Now here's what I'm talking about, trusted peers. 593 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,920 Don't go to people who are already negative, who think negatively. 594 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:01,440 Don't go to people who have not achieved the success that you want to achieve because there, 595 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,880 even though they want the best for you, they're going to play it safe and tell you not to 596 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,280 do it or you're too old or you should have started, blah, blah, blah. 597 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:09,280 Okay. 598 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:13,760 You want to go to people that find people that are successful in that field, whatever that 599 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,880 field is or area and have them help you, have them mentor you. 600 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,840 And you might know these people and they don't have to be famous people, folks. 601 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,320 They can just be anybody who's been successful in the field that you want to be successful 602 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,320 in. 603 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:31,280 If it's an author, find that a local author, look around, go to the bookstore or library, 604 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:37,240 look around, you know, maybe contact somebody online, an author that you like that's, you 605 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:41,120 know, you find successful and gain some feedback from them. 606 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,040 Ask them what their journey was like. 607 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,840 You know, if they say they started young, that's fine. 608 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:45,840 It's okay. 609 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:46,960 That's what they did. 610 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,240 But ask them for some pointers. 611 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,840 Let them know what you're struggling with. 612 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,800 Successful people are going to help you out. 613 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,240 It's the unsuccessful people, the people that are miserable, that couldn't do it, that don't 614 00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:58,640 want to do it or too lazy to do it. 615 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,360 They're not going to, they're not going to offer you any positive suggestions or positive 616 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,360 guidance. 617 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,480 And every time you have a thought that comes in your head, I want you to stop and think, 618 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,280 write it down or think about it. 619 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:14,680 You know, is this a rational, logical thought of limiting beliefs or is this completely irrational? 620 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,280 And it probably is irrational. 621 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,880 I mean, if you say something like I want to be a, okay, so if I want to go into the military 622 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,560 at the age of 50, I'm not going to be able to go into the military at the age of 50. 623 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:25,560 That's a reality. 624 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,560 Okay. 625 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:27,840 So no, you're going to have to strike that goal. 626 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,600 There are ways though, from what I understand, you could become a medical doctor and in some 627 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,360 cases they'll take you in your fifties or sixties, you know, if they need you. 628 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,040 But for the most part, if you want to go be a grunt in the army or the Marines and you're 629 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,560 in your fifties, that's got to be off your list. 630 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:43,560 Okay. 631 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,080 There's just some limit to this success thing. 632 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,080 If you want to be an artist, if you want to be a designer, if you want to be a business 633 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:57,680 person, start a business, then you're going to have to eliminate those self-limiting beliefs. 634 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,800 You're going to have to recognize that what you're thinking is not a rational thought, 635 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,520 it's completely irrational because you can achieve that. 636 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:11,800 It's been proven, we've talked about it, and it's not out of the realm of possibility at 637 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,800 all regardless of your age. 638 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,360 And you want to reframe your thinking. 639 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,200 What I mean is, if you're saying things like, I'm too old to start a business, you may want 640 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,840 to switch that to my years of experience to give me a unique advantage in starting a business. 641 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,160 You see how we reframe that? 642 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:32,800 It's like a spin doctor in politics where they spin it, just spin it to yourself because 643 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,000 it's just a string of words that create a meaning in your mind. 644 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,440 So if you're saying, I'm too old to start a business, you're right. 645 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,360 But if you say, look at the wisdom that I have at my age, it's a benefit to starting 646 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,440 a business, you're right. 647 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,520 It depends on which way you want to go. 648 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,800 If you want to stay in a state of negativity, then go with the former, I'm too old to start 649 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:53,800 a business. 650 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,920 But again, just remember that it has nothing to do with your age, but everything to do 651 00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,360 with your thinking. 652 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:04,720 So change your thinking, and you begin to see your progress, you begin to see your movement 653 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:07,320 towards the success that you want to achieve. 654 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,240 So reframe your thoughts, folks, reframe your thoughts. 655 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:16,480 Take what you have negative about being successful at an older age and change that to a positive. 656 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,800 So you also want to visualize it. 657 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,080 They've done studies on visualization. 658 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:25,040 And visualization actually does improve performance, especially in athletes, but you don't have 659 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,360 to be an athlete to visualize. 660 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:31,880 I mean, you can constantly set positive affirmations like my age adds valuable perspective and 661 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,880 wisdom to my endeavors and constantly say that to yourself. 662 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,880 Because basically what you're going to be doing is you're going to be rewiring rewiring 663 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,320 your brain. 664 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,320 You're going to be taking that negativity that you have in your brain that I can't achieve. 665 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,920 And you're going to be saying that there's an advantage to my age and that advantages 666 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:52,920 I bring a lot of wisdom and experience a lot more than the younger generation has set goals, 667 00:39:52,920 --> 00:40:02,360 set smart goals, and goals that are very specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time bound. 668 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,760 Don't say I want to be an astronaut at the age of 60. 669 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:11,680 It's not impossible because we've seen that with the exploration of the commercialized 670 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,520 space programs. 671 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:19,880 However, in reality, if you don't have the money to dish out, that's probably not something 672 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:26,480 that's realistic, but you could work in a space program, so to speak. 673 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:33,480 So keep your goals specific, be able to measure them, make sure they are attainable, make sure 674 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,360 they're realistic based on your goals, not unrealistic goals and their time bound set 675 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:42,080 a timeframe for them and work towards that timeframe. 676 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:49,040 And one thing that's one of my biggest, it's the number one on my list is continuous learning. 677 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,040 Don't stop learning. 678 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,200 And I'm not saying you have to go sit in a classroom somewhere at your age, pick up 679 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:59,520 a book, read a book, take an online course, watch a documentary, talk to people who've 680 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,680 experienced what you want to experience. 681 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:10,560 Always be learning because learning leads to growth and growth is what leads to your 682 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,280 success. 683 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:17,560 Okay, so what I want to do now is help you leverage your age as an asset so we can start 684 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,160 to change your thinking. 685 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,400 Forget about the youth. 686 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:21,400 Get rid of them. 687 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:22,400 We don't need them anyway. 688 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:23,400 They're too young. 689 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,440 They don't know what they're talking about and they're not very innovative or creative 690 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:26,440 anyway. 691 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:32,240 So the first thing is understand that your age is an advantage. 692 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:37,640 It's the accumulation of resources and wisdom in the expansive network that you have that 693 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:42,360 you could bring to the table that's a significant advantage to you to become successful. 694 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:47,400 I mean, you've got professional settings, you've got personal projects you've done, 695 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:53,160 a whole host of stuff in your lifetime that you can leverage as experience to help you 696 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,120 get to that level of success that you're looking for. 697 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:02,200 So begin to change the cultural mindset, the cultural perception that you have that you're 698 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:10,000 too old to achieve to wonder where your age is a benefit and a value, not a hindrance. 699 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,640 Because age with age comes basically all that experience I talked about. 700 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:22,520 It provides a broader perspective that is invaluable in problem solving, strategic thinking, and 701 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:23,920 innovation. 702 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:28,920 It's the opposite of what society tells us where society says younger people are more 703 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,160 innovative. 704 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,800 That is not true. 705 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:36,880 It is the older folks that have more of the innovation because of their wisdom, of their 706 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,600 experience, of everything they've gone through. 707 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:45,320 They could bring all that knowledge to the table and begin to shape it and mold it into 708 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:52,440 innovative ideas that lead them down the path of success, whatever that success is to them. 709 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:58,360 And another thing you have at your age is a network of people that you're connected 710 00:42:58,360 --> 00:42:59,360 to. 711 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:05,520 Be it family, friends, coworkers, previous coworkers, colleagues, you have a richer network 712 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:11,560 of people that are more established and wiser than a younger generation has. 713 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,600 Sure, a 20-year-old might have 40, 50 friends, but are they really friends and do they really 714 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,320 know anything? 715 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:22,520 Whereas a 40-year-old, a 50, 60, 70, 80-year-old, they're going to know more people, they're 716 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:27,560 going to know more, they are going to know more quality people, and these people would 717 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:33,040 also have the experience and wisdom that they can bounce ideas off of and share and develop. 718 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:39,720 So again, leverage your age and your network of people to help you become successful. 719 00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:45,040 Look, a lot of this here, to change society, it's a group effort, folks. 720 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,120 It's not just one person's job. 721 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,560 We have to change the script. 722 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:59,800 We have to change how society looks at people 40 and older, especially in their 60s or 70s. 723 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,920 We live our life thinking we're going to go get a job, we're going to work in this job 724 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:09,360 for 20, 30, 40 years, then we're going to retire old and sit on a couch or take cruises or whatever 725 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,560 old people are supposed to do. 726 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,400 There's nothing further from the truth. 727 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,520 I will work to the day I die, and what I mean is I will work not for someone else, I will 728 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:23,040 work for myself until the day I die, because I enjoy what I do. 729 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:28,520 But that's because I debunk all the myths and snub my nose at them because I don't believe 730 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,520 any of them because it's all fabricated in the mind. 731 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:37,280 It's all inside your head, it's self-limiting, it puts you in a box, it says you cannot do 732 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,760 something and when someone tells me I cannot do something, I do the opposite, I go and 733 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:41,760 do it. 734 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,480 And that's how you should be. 735 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:50,720 We should begin to reshape the thinking of society that age, wisdom is where it's at. 736 00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:52,800 Age and wisdom are innovative. 737 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:58,920 We need to begin to reshape society's thinking about the older generation and that we bring 738 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:05,120 wisdom, we bring experience, we bring networks of people, connections that provide lots of 739 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:06,560 value. 740 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:11,040 If you're over 40 or over 50 or even over 60 and you're out looking for a professional 741 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:14,680 job, you know it's hard, right? 742 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,760 Everybody wants to hire somebody younger. 743 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:20,320 That's because they believe younger people are more innovative. 744 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,720 To kids today, I'm telling you right now, they don't even want to work. 745 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:28,800 They don't have the work ethic that my generation has. 746 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,400 They just want to come and do what they want, they want all this feel good stuff and that's 747 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,400 not reality. 748 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,200 I mean, that's their reality, that's not my reality. 749 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:43,800 So we have to begin to reshape how people think about the aging by explaining and reframing 750 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:49,480 the conversation and saying that it's the older wiser person that brings to the table 751 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,360 the innovation and not the younger person. 752 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,560 And this is not the knock young people. 753 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,680 I mean, they have a place in society as well. 754 00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,360 And we can all coexist. 755 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:04,680 But what the message I'm trying to get to you is to get out of that thinking that you're 756 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,520 too old to do achieve, you're too old to do anything because none of that is true. 757 00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,400 It's zero truth in any of that. 758 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:16,440 In one way, you can kind of celebrate your achievements and your progress towards your 759 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,720 success is to celebrate your milestones. 760 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:24,880 Even if you're out there trying to reframe people's thinking, set milestones, set goals 761 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,080 and celebrate them. 762 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:31,800 Because when you celebrate those small wins towards your achievement, it begins to boost 763 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,000 your motivation even more. 764 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:39,680 And you begin to see the progress, which helps fuel your passion and your motivation to keep 765 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,320 moving forward. 766 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,640 So my hope is that if you'd listened to the podcast this far, first off, thank you very 767 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:46,920 much from the bottom of my heart. 768 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,320 I mean that sincerely. 769 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:49,320 I really do. 770 00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,440 I appreciate it. 771 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:56,880 But I want you to walk away knowing that you are completely capable and that and if you 772 00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,920 think you're too old to succeed, just know that that is an irrational thought inside 773 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:10,160 of your mind that's been placed there by societal conditioning, parents, education, other outside 774 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,480 influence, the media and all that other stuff. 775 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:17,720 And it might be a little challenging to override it, but you can override it with positive affirmation. 776 00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:23,360 You can override it by deciding today is the day I'm going to start to be successful. 777 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:24,920 I'm going to move myself forward. 778 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:25,920 My age is irrelevant. 779 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:31,760 Age is a fabricated thing anyway to place us in the little compartments in our life cycle 780 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,320 that's manmade. 781 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:39,240 So it really has no bearing on the reality that I can be a successful and I can achieve. 782 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:44,040 I mean, we've emphasized that age should not be seen as a barrier, but rather a unique 783 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:45,040 asset. 784 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,040 You're unique at your age. 785 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:50,480 I mean, the wealth of experience, wisdom and established networks that come with age are 786 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:51,480 invaluable. 787 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:57,440 They're invaluable folks and valuable resources that can be leveraged for any type of success 788 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,280 across any type of industry. 789 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:06,240 So as we close this episode, I want you to remember that your age is a testament to your 790 00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:09,560 journey with each year adding layers. 791 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:14,840 I'm talking layers of depth and strength to your character. 792 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,120 So you're not, you're not getting younger. 793 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:23,880 You're getting older and with each year that you get older, you're adding more experience 794 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,400 to your character. 795 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:30,760 Despite the fact that we celebrate youth, you need to stand tall and be proud of the 796 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:39,520 years you carry because each moment of your past has prepared you for today and beyond. 797 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,080 And that's no bull. 798 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:49,160 You have to look at your whole life experience as preparation for your success. 799 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,560 And success isn't overnight folks. 800 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:57,560 People struggle 20, 30 years and then all of a sudden they hit that success threshold 801 00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,280 and they're successful. 802 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,320 And I'm not saying that you haven't struggled 20 or 30 years. 803 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,360 You might be 60 years old. 804 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:10,400 That's 60 years of struggle right there folks because everything behind you is the experience 805 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,040 that's led you to where you are today. 806 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,240 My assignment to you is a challenge of status quo. 807 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:22,040 Let society dictate the bounds of your aspirations, of your goals, of your dreams. 808 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:27,200 So whether you're seeking to start a new venture, change careers or achieve personal 809 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,920 growth, know that your age is not just a number. 810 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,080 It's a badge of honor folks. 811 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:34,680 Wear it with honor. 812 00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:42,440 It's a collection of insights and the toolkit of skills honed over your lifetime. 813 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:49,000 So step forward with confidence and let your experience be your guide and your age a beacon 814 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,360 that lights the way forward. 815 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,120 I want to thank you for listening. 816 00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,400 I really appreciate you. 817 00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,240 Until next time. 818 00:49:57,240 --> 00:50:14,440 I'm Alan Stafford and this is Life on Safety.