Breaking age barriers, embracing the journey of personal growth

Do you feel like you're too old or not old enough to do something? Maybe you're thinking to yourself it's too late to change careers or that at your age, you don't have enough experience to share your ideas and thoughts. You could even be someone who thinks they just can't learn something new at your age, that it will take too long. Age doesn't matter; what matters is when you start playing.

Defying conventions

When you look at people in your field or other areas and careers, age doesn't count for where they are, how much they know, or how far they have gotten. What matters is when they started. I could even go a little deeper and say not only does it matter when you start, but it also matters how often you practice, do, make, train, learn, and implement. Someone could have been cooking for their whole life, but a younger, trained chef could easily make a better meal than the older individual Why is this? Time spent doing, learning, training is what matters.

Success beyond dyslexic boundaries

What you do matters, but how you do it matters even more. I'm dyslexic; I see words backward, I can't spell, and when I read, all the words blur and fade into one another. But this disability doesn't mean I can't read or can't become a writer. What matters is how often I write, how much I write, how often I read, learn, practice, and study. Having a mental disability doesn't mean you can't do something. The same goes for how long you've spend on this earth; you age doesn't matter.

Growth, goals, and gratitude

We all want to succeed; we all want to be the best. We also need to be humble and appreciate the happiness that comes from being able to do what we want in the first place. Doing, is the reward; for me writing these words is success. Once we reach our goal, by the time we get there, we will have another goal, and another one. We keep moving the goal post; we keep wanting more of ourselves. This is growth; this is normal. Realize that if you get to start, if you are practicing your dream, you have already made it because getting to do it is the achievement.

So the next time you think your age matters, realize that it never did. And don't beat yourself up because you wish you started earlier—start now; there is no better time than the present.