How to start a new life, if you are 40 years old
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
Crisis or bloom of forces?
Fortieth anniversary is traditionally considered difficult age crisis abroad. It seems that, to celebrate this sad anniversary, you instantly turn from a girl or a young man into a woman and a man. Ahead only old age and decay, lack of prospects and the impending retirement.
A couple of centuries ago, this was considered his advanced age does. But who would call today to celebrate the 54th anniversary of Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp's elderly? A 43-year old woman Angelina Jolie?
Even the World Health Organization has made adjustments to the age classification.
Young people is now considered to be between 18 and 44 years. A 45-59 years - the average age.
This means only one thing: 40 years - a great time, very suitable for the beginning of a new life, the implementation of ambitious projects, job changes and other distracting from the standard of life schemes deeds. You need only desire.
Experience all the advantages
In those 40 years, there are several important advantages. Behind them, as a rule, have a degree (sometimes more than one), lessons learned and good communication. They know what they want, and are what it takes to succeed. They do not expect that they will drop manna from heaven. Although such a possibility is not excluded, because anything can happen in life.
They have time-tested friends, family and loved ones close by. Children are likely to have grown out of diapers and learn in school or university. Communicate with them gives 40 years of a wonderful opportunity to understand what living two generations at once, and draw the consequences.
Of course, much depends on with what baggage and spirit man came to this point. After all, it also happens that you are twenty years sat in the office in the status of an assistant or a junior manager.
Remember: it's too late to change anything
The most common phobia associated with the upcoming 40th anniversary, for the thesis "too late to change anything": do not take the new work, it will not work in your personal life will not understand new technologies not enter in a team... But is it really really?
Analyzing the activity of more than twenty-five thousand people, I have found that few people achieve outstanding success in the age of forty. Most often, they have been under fifty, when they gained the necessary speed.
Napoleon Hill, American writer
These words are backed up by a set of examples:
1. It was at 40 years old American Henry Ford founded the famous Ford Motor Company, successfully continues to this day. His revolutionary car Ford T he way, constructed in 45 years.
2. American engineer, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit Robert Noyce founded Intel with a colleague in the company of 41 years.
3. Harland David Sanders, known as Colonel Sanders, was considered a failure: all his businesses were failures. At 40 years old he came up with a secret recipe for fried chicken, which has glorified it, and fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken ( «Fried chicken from Kentucky», KFC).
4. Founder of the famous network of Wal-Mart stores, Sam Walton laid the first stone in your empire in 44 years. When he was 67 years, Forbes magazine recognized Walton the richest man in America.
5. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, sold to 52 years old paper cups, suffered from diabetes and arthritis. But, as he wrote in his memoirs, "I believed in the future."
6. The star of "Pulp Fiction" and "The Avengers", actor Samuel L. Jackson became famous in 43 years after the release of the film "dengue fever" in which he played, incidentally, is still not a major role.
7. Kim Cattrall, Samantha superhot of "Sex and the City", with 15 years of acting skills. But fame came to her when she rapped in '41 and it reincarnated as one of the bridesmaids Carrie Bradshaw.
8. The most charming killer from the movie "Leon" Jean Reno became famous in 46 years (thanks to Luc Besson, who took him for the lead role).
9. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, author of "The Alchemist" became known after 40 years, when his books started to produce millions of copies.
10. Julia Child wrote her first cookbook, which became a hit in 50 years. And then I became a chef.
11. Christian Dior had to seek fame for many years. Own fashion house, he opened in 42 years.
12. American Carol Gardner in '52 was divorced and left without financial support. It has got a bulldog and founded the company Zelda Wisdom ( «Zelda Wisdom"), manufacturer of greeting cards. Today its business is estimated at $ 50 million.
13. Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz became a co-founder of Red Bull in 40 years. Now, 30 years later, his fortune is estimated at nearly $ 15 billion.
14. Vera Wang to 40 years old was a figure skater and a journalist, but then decided to drastically change his life and become a famous designer in feshen industry.
15. American academic, mathematician James Harris Simons at age 44 left the university, where he taught and founded a private investment firm Renaissance Technologies Corporation. It is still considered the most successful hedge fund in the world.
All these people do not unite millions behind him, and belief in yourself, perseverance and a healthy adventurism.
How to start a new life
- First of all, assess your strengths and weaknesses. What are you proud, and what you can and should learn. The Network now there is a lot of useful both paid and free webinars and books that help develop new directions and to cultivate.
- Determine exactly what you want. Not simply brush the most adventurous options, allow yourself to welcome the forbidden fruit. Look at the examples above, if want, you can achieve anything. Let your motto will be the phrase, "I can afford it."
- Do not think about how you appreciate the other. This is your life.
- Forget the phrase "last chance." It can spur you to desire to change their lives as soon as possible, which is why you nabote many cones. This is a wonderful age for every start, whether it is a new business or yoga classes.
- Use your own experiences. After all, you probably already possess a valuable skill: learn to think first and then do.