Here is another beauty
Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale and Napolean Hill were all over 45 years old before their major works were published. The world would no doubt be a different place today if these great men had not made the great contributions they did. They didn’t buy into the over-the-hill myth which seems to affect people with increasing energy the closer they move to the big six-zero.
Did you know that Michelangelo was 72 years old when he asked Pope Paul III to design and build St. Peters dome at the Vatican? Did you hear me, 72 years old! When most of his contemporaries where looking at sunsets, drinking prune juice and waiting for their home coming, Michelangelo was preparing to make architectural history.
Did you know that Colonel Sanders started the famous Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation with his first social security check? Golda Meir was 75 when she became the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
Regardless of your age, never give in to the idea that it’s too late for you to achieve great success. Today is the day to begin striving and working toward accomplishment. Today is the day of new beginnings. Let’s face it, this is it folks! This isn’t some practice run. What are you going to do with the time you have remaining?
Are you aware that if you are 40 years old you have spent 14,600 days on this earth and if you agree with the life expectancy of 70 years, you have only 10,950 left! If you are 50 only 7,300! What do you want to do with the rest of your life? Make a magnificent picture of what you can do, then do it.
You can change the world!