PRODUCTIVITY MINDSET

3 Limiting Beliefs To Drop (So Your 40s & 50s Are Awesome)

The power of deciding you’re not quite done yet ;-)

Chris Davidson
Over 40 Freakin Awesome
6 min readNov 26, 2024

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If you’re anything like me (a 48-year-old-cynic!), you probably roll your eyes at those endless social media posts about “manifesting your best life” or “unleashing your inner warrior.”

The internet is flooded with mindset gurus (aged 23…) promising transformation through positive thinking alone, and it can feel a bit…disconnected from reality, right?

Even if I tell myself in the mirror:

“Your crows feet will disappear and that Ferrari WILL be yours”,

ten times every morning… it’s not gonna happen.

But while being sceptical of the whole weird manifestation movement (and rightly so), is good, I realized a while back that I was letting my all-round cynicism around ‘mindset stuff’ blind me to a fundamental truth:

The beliefs we hold about ourselves after 40 can either open doors for us as we get a little older… or slam them shut.

There are limitations we place on ourselves simply because we’ve hit a certain age, and maybe a little fear kicks in (I

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Over 40 Freakin Awesome
Over 40 Freakin Awesome

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Health, Fitness and Lifestyle Articles to help Men & Women 40+ to THRIVE as we get older.

Chris Davidson
Chris Davidson

Written by Chris Davidson

Coach to fed-up & out-of-shape Men & Women Over-40 • Dad of 3 • Irishman • Writer • Grab my free 7-Day 40+ Reset course here: https://ovr40.co/reset

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