Youth is wasted on the young.

At what age can you genuinely say this is true? I look back at my fifteen year old self and think, “If I could smack some sense into that kid, I’d be on a different trajectory.”

Different trajectory with my focus, discipline, health and finances. By no means am I in a rough shape with those now, but I consider other possibilities.

Then I speak with someone ten years older who laughs and wishes they were my current age. Someone ten years older than them are probably laughing at both of us.

When we think it’s too late in life, we just need to look to someone older and ask, “What would you do if you were my age now?”

Then you listen and listen carefully.

Yes, there is the often referred to list of the regrets of the dying, but that’s not enough. Get a bit more specific and ask some deeper questions about why those are regrets. From there, it’s a matter of not letting another twenty years pass without doing anything about it.