Its Never Too Late

Reinvention, rebirth can happen to anyone at anytime. You must simply begin. The challenge to reinvent when we’re older is not our age, but the disappointment that we must begin again so late.

This disappointment keeps us trapped in the wreckage of our current lives, rather than moving through and beyond the damage that currently exists. Many believe they’re simply too old to change, to try again and to flourish. And so they slowly decay into a life of “holding on”. Declining into a miserable final existence.

The alternative is new vision, new effort, and the gift of falling in love with life again. Allowing ourselves to contain more than one truth, more than the one iteration. Beyond the persona we’ve lived for the decades of our adult life. No longer reckless with choices, we can gain a new level of integrity, better boundaries, and a stable foundation.

Learning how to take care of ourself in new ways by building a simple life that we can trust and be proud of. When we no longer have to prove ourself, we’re able to grow outward from a solid base of inner peace.

It happens in small, micro steps taken daily. It happens by facing down fear and resistance and by by doing the uncomfortable daily. No matter how sad, depressed, tired, or hungover we are.

In Practice :

My Becoming will be defined by how I leave the habits, thoughts, behaviors, and people behind that contribute to my self destruction.

Rather than managing them, we must simply drop them, move on and never start them again. The trick is not putting down the destructive weights of our former life, it’s simply not picking them up ever again.

To heal is to initiate. To begin, to walk away, and to start something new. This is Senior Essence, taking back control of our life by rejecting the norms of aging and the habits of my former life.

“When we ask for a new life, we must stop fighting for the old one to stay.”