CYBLN 039: Why Middle Age Is The Best Time To Be An Online Entrepreneur

Middle Age maybe the best time to be an online entrepreneur for a number of reasons. One of those reasons, and probably the most important, is that you are more qualified at life than ever. It’s being able to identify the areas that you’re most qualified and embark upon your new journey of being an online entrepreneur.

Summary Show Notes:

In this episode Bob Adams makes the case that we are living longer than before, which gives us more time to accomplish so much more. We have more time than we think we do. Unfortunately too many men and women in midlife, look at the future through the rear-view mirror of their life and focus on what was instead of what could and can be. 

BOB’S BRIEF STORY OF HOW IT ALL BEGAN

It was October of 1979. My father had passed away just a few weeks before and, for the first time in a month, I stepped on the scales and discovered I’d gained ten pounds. Ten pounds in thirty days, I was stunned. I was 34 and already discovering that getting rid of an extra couple pounds was harder than it had been just a few years before. Now I had ten extra pounds to get rid of and the thought was very depressing. 

I realized that I was showing the first signs of middle age, something I had never worried about before. It wasn’t just bodyweight, it was everything. I couldn’t just glide along any more. If I kept “gliding”, it was going to be downhill and that was not the future I had envisioned when I was young. I wanted to do something about it, but I first had to understand what was happening. Thus began an informal, but intense, 30-year study of the aging process and, in particular, this thing we call “middle age”. 

Here are a few of the thoughts you’ll find in this episode:

• You may feel isolated but you’re really not. 

• Getting out to know people. don’t hang out with the same crowd all the time. Have a diversity of people around you. You’ll find they are doing / trying something different. 

• Age ceases to be a factor when you are with like minded people. You all are learning something new. If you sit with people who are not doing anything you’re going to feel isolated. Expand your circle. The ones you’re always with are going to hold you back.

• When you’re 15 they’ll come and find you. When you’re 45 you have to go find them.

• Have an idea of what your dream looks like; it doesn’t have to be so specific. Maybe it’s taking a course online. Get some new training that would open the door for you.

• You have enough time. You don’t have to do it overnight and get it all done now. Find people and talk with them.

 Final word:

• Don’t get upset about things that don’t go the way you want all the time.

• Don’t get into a peeing contest with a skunk. You’ll always lose.

• Everyday try to do one thing, no matter how small, that moves you one step ahead. It doesn’t matter the size. Its’ just that you did it.

• Once this podcast is over just do something. No matter how small it might be. Just get off your butt and get out there and do it. Don’t wait for someone else to come and carry you along.

• In your life, you know that doing something new may not work. You have done it all your life.  You’re going to get some bruises and bumps in life.

• Take the advice you have given to your children all these years and now do it yourself.

• You get used to something that is normal and predictable so it feels safe .. so to break free and do something different is scary because you’re taking on a risk. Unfortunately you’re taking on a risk by doing nothing either. You might get a pink slip and you’ll look back at the end of your life wishing you had done something different.

• At 15 & 20 you’re doing things for the first time and will make mistakes but at midlife you have enough knowledge so its a foundational opportunity to do something with that wisdom

Where can Bob be reached:

• www.middleage.org

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