THE AGE OF SUCCESS

The Age Of Success

There's a double meaning, is this the age of success?  i.e lots of people can be...or how old do you have to be to be successful?

Let's go with the meaning of the word success first. This is definitely the age of mediocrity for the majority who defend anything they do as a success. Schools make it so easy for people to achieve so no one 'fails' (compared to education 25 years ago).  It's one way to make everyone think they are a success.. but it's just pulling the wool over people's eyes, is giving them an easy ride with a hard bump when real life hits home. 

As an employer you see the psychology of people leaving school,college and university.  When it comes to the entrepreneurial success mentality, it's as rare as rocking horse..... Education seems to prepare people with the idea  getting a job is just a surrogate parent, an entity to take care of their every want and need with a hand out mindset. Very few people connect the dots and see that in business money goes  in a circle, and by generating profit/income people get paid. To many, a business is one off the social, a place to go, stay for a few hours and get paid for turning up. In the horse racing terms of success, this isn't an also ran, it's pony nuts.

So let's leave the poor metaphors aside for a while and answer the question, yes, this like any age is the age of success, if you get off your arse and go looking for it rather than kidding yourself it will knock on your door. And if you go looking, tool yourself up with the right gear to take advantage... it's just the same as climbing Everest, if your mental kit let's you down, it's a long way to fall, so be prepared (couldn't resist another metaphor).

So then we come to real age and mental age. Is there a preferred age to success..?

Any age is good physically, but mentally you have to think in expansive ways, and the trouble with getting old  is you've seen so many trees it's hard to see the woods, so you just confuse yourself. 

The trouble with youth is confidence and experience, or the lack of it. If you're going to climb the success ladder you will face people around you that won't exactly feel good about you wanting more and will even hold you back. The question here is 'why do you think you are any better than them?' Try to re phrase ..why should they think they are any worse or hold you back to make themselves feel better? It's just making the choice of what you want from life. 

How you age mentally is the key to success... If you see life as a never ending series of opportunities that will expand your mind, you will always be young. If however, you see age as a slow gradual decay of your physical attributes and your mental faculties...you will certainly get what you wish for.

Closed minds exist at all ages simply because of the conditioning we all received  right from the start, a system that  closes off our minds to being anything other than limited by those who we are surrounded by.

If you can train your mind to expect success, or ideally have the thought pattern of success imprinted on your brain from an early age, you will succeed because you will be seeing and thinking in success based ways, the next  part is influencing others to help you succeed.