This thought is written by a 55-year-old.
How often have we - in the 50/60/70 age bracket - heard, or thought, the lament - '..if only I knew then what I know now'.
30 Years ago, I was 25 and just entering my productive 10, 20, 30 years that have just passed - I was a slow-starter.
It's interesting to note that Bill Gates started his productive years some 10 years of age earlier than that.
So here's the thought of a 55-year-old (and further stimulated by recent feedback to the same question asked of colleagues approaching 50, 60 and 70) - at what age are YOU planning to kick the bucket?
Not anytime soon, I'll bet.
I'll also bet that YOU're planning another active 10, 20, 30 + years living YOUR life to the best YOU can.
So (the thought goes to self)... YOU are back at the same point you were some 30 years ago with another planned productive 10, 20, 30 years ahead of YOU - with one difference!
YOU do know now what YOU didn't know then!
So (thought to self) why not apply what YOU now know to creating a 2nd life - a second vibrant, productive life - of YOUR dreams?
Slip back into that 25-year-old frame of mind where the world was YOUR oyster and download everything YOU now know about success and failure.
How will YOU now go about being productive - achieving YOUR 2nd life dreams - over the next 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 30 years?
That will be the theme for applied daily thought this week.
In the meantime, I had a giggle at this insight from someone who has thought through this question from their perspective:
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
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I like this ... "a Second Life" !
ReplyDeleteThere are herds of people indulging in a second life on line .... WHAT A WASTE!
Do YOU want to follow the herd? Can YOU see the precipice those ahead of you are heading towards?
Use what you know now, find out what you don't know from those that do, make your second / third / fourth life a REAL one NOT a virtual one.
I realy like this real Second Life idea. I don't play the second life game but I do spend quite a bit of time in simulators i.e war, or tycoon games, and its true. Its a shame people don;'t take the game, and play it in real life.
ReplyDeleteIts really WORK to do this - to take what we know and apply it. To make aplan and stick with it. I think its easier to drudge along, be told what and how sometimes. This is the real WORK of life - Getting and applying WISDOM