Unlock the Secret to Success at Any Age - By Answering One Simple Question
The answer changed my life.
It started as a normal conversation with a friend. We were discussing an elementary school teacher acquaintance who was contemplating enrolling in an online course part-time to earn a Computer Science Degree.
“Geesh”, said my friend, “between her current job, home, and family obligations, it’ll take YEARS — probably 5 or 6 years, for her to earn that degree. She’ll be 55 years old by the time she gets it. She’ll be too old to do anything with it”.
I said to her — “But she’s going to be 55 anyway. She can be 55 years old, stagnated in a job in which she is burned out and hates, or the same 55 years old with a degree in a field that excites her. Which do you think she would rather it be? (Full disclosure — I did not make up this statement on my own. I had heard it somewhere, although I don’t recall where, but I fully embraced its meaningfulness.)
Although I didn’t realize it at the time, my answer to her was what was to become the cornerstone of the philosophy of my life for as long as I have lived since that moment.
I had stated the meaning of a successful and purposeful life in the 15 seconds it had taken me to utter those words. That’s all there was to it — the secret to the meaning of a…
