My brain feels like it just ate a big Thanksgiving meal. It
feels tired and would really like a nice long nap. What is filling my brain
these days is trying to keep up with technology and the world of working. Some
days I just feel like as the song goes by Status Quo, “ I ain’t gonna work no
more.”
It’s not the work that gets to me, but the constant needing
to be online and learning new skills. But really it’s not the skills and the
learning, but the fact that I just don’t want to compete in the working world
any more. I know what it is like to hustle and run to make a buck and try and
get ahead. The truth is we never really get ahead. Sure may-be we have made our
money and hopefully have a nice retirement, but as soon as you get to retirement
they extend the average lifespan and we
wonder if the money we have will last into our really, really old age?!
I find myself slipping behind. And I don’t really care.
However, I find myself now becoming a mentor to lots of younger people. They
ask for my advice and look to me to encourage them. Today I am meeting with a
young woman who is developing an app program. She wants me to give her some
input, as if I know anything?! Actually she wants to show me what she has
developed and our meeting is a deadline for her to have it ready to show me. I’m only too happy to help. However, I also
want to ask her how to make something go viral. She tells me she knows how to
do this and I am curious as to how it happens.
So even though my brain is full it still is curious. It wants
to understand, but not to go through all the processing and agonizing of
implementation. Because in life it is not what you know or even who you know
that counts. It’s how you execute an idea that makes for success. You can have
all the knowledge and all the money, but if you don’t have the competitive edge…well
it’s not going to happen.
Competitive drive creates stress and stress advances the
aging process. I have decided to take a proactive approach to aging. Ideas are a
dime a dozen. They come and they go, but to make it all happen takes time,
energy and focused hard work. I’ve got the time and I’ve got the money, but I
think I’ll put my feet up, mentor the
kids and do what I like because “I ain’t
gonna work no more!”
Doctor Lynn
http://www.doctorlynn.com
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