Shift Your Perspective Now: It’s Not Too Late and You’re Not Too Old

“You’re running out of time.”

“You missed your chance.”

“You’re too old.”

As you enter the second half of your life, the statements above whisper in your mind, and the pressure mounts.

You experience a sense of urgency like never before.

You fear the second half of your life will be a carbon copy of the first half, and the first half no longer brings the happiness it once did.

You fear you won’t connect with the sense of purpose, meaning, and fulfillment you crave.

You fear dying with regrets.

A few thoughts on these whispers and fears:

Your second half isn’t set in stone; it’s waiting for you to write it.

The only way you can miss your chance is by not taking a chance.

Too late? By who’s clock?

• Cezanne’s works in his mid-60s are valued 15 times higher than those he created as a young man.
• Henry Ford was 45 years old when he started his third car company and created the assembly line.
• Frank McCourt didn’t publish his first book, Angela’s Ashes (he won the Pulitzer Prize for it) until he was 66.