Where Do You Go From Here?
© 2007 Tony Mase
I recently received a question from one of my customers that
went something like this (I've edited out the personal details):
"... As a 71 year old widow there is no way for me
to get employment let alone get into some sort of
business. My only hope of a better life in my old
age is to work towards manifesting a lottery win.
Now, apparently there is no hope of this either.
Where do I go from here?"
Good question. :-)
Interestingly enough...
I received several very similarly worded questions, all of
which began with or included something like...
"I'm 40-something and I can't __________"... or...
"I'm 50-something and I can't __________"... or...
"I'm 60-something and I can't __________"... or...
... like this one...
"I'm 70-something and I can't __________"...
In other words, they all included a statement of their age, followed by what
they couldn't do as a result of it, and that their only
"hope" for a better life was "manifesting" (There's that word
again :-)) a "lottery win".
So... where should these good folks go from here?
Well, for starters, I'd highly recommend they stop talking about age.
Specifically, their age...
Really!
In his book "The Personal Power Course",
Wallace D. Wattles, best known for his classic masterpiece
"The Science of Getting Rich", wrote:
"Is it worth while to achieve health, wealth, and ability
if, when we reach the age of forty five or fifty years, we
are to begin to lose it all - to begin to go down hill, grow
slower of step, dimmer of vision, steadily weaker in mind
and body until we are reduced to absolute helplessness and
dependence? If we go the common way of the world, just as we
become most effective we shall begin to become ineffective;
just as we gain what we want, we shall begin to lose it all.
If one is to be counted "old" and "a has been," a "back
number" at fifty, life is hardly worth while."
How true! :-)
Now, I don't know where it comes from. Maybe it's a
throwback to our childhood, when we were tossed such gems
of wisdom as "now that you're eight, you can't
__________ anymore" or "act your age"...
But, in my opinion...
"Age" and what you can or can't do at a certain age, is a
mental concept more than it's anything else.
And, like any mental concept...
It can be changed!
How, you ask?
Simple. Let me share with you how I did it.
A number of years ago, to no end of the amusement of people
who knew me, I decided I wasn't going to have age anymore...
In other words, I became "ageless"!
Really! I'm not kidding you. :-)
I don't talk about age...
I don't think about age...
I don't celebrate birthdays...
I just 'AM'!
If you were to ask my own son how "old" his daddy is, he'd
tell you his daddy doesn't have age; he's "ageless".
Now, once "age" is off the table, your possibilities
are endless, aren't they?
Who says "you can't" get employment?
I knew a lady who took an early retirement at age 62, after
the company she worked for was bought out.
Bored out of her mind and not real happy that, on her
pension, she couldn't do all the "shopping" she used to be
able to do ("shopping" was her absolute favorite pastime),
after a few months she went to work for another company,
retiring again at age 83 with another pension.
Where's it written that "you can't" start your own business?
If Ray Kroc could start McDonald's at age 52...
If Harland Sanders could start Kentucky Fried Chicken at 66...
You can certainly start a part-time, home-based business to
supplement your pension and live a better life.
Don't have the "skills" you say? Odds are you have far
more "skills" than you give yourself credit for, and those
you don't have are easily developed.
The bottom line is this...
Remove the "mental block" that says...
"I'm 40-something and I can't __________"... or...
"I'm 50-something and I can't __________"... or...
"I'm 60-something and I can't __________"... or...
"I'm 70-something and I can't __________"...
If you need help with this, download and read Lesson 1
of the Personal Power Course. (Lesson 1 is free.) ...
And when you do, a whole new universe of endless possibilities will
reveal itself to you!
