To those who feel behind at 30

Working the other day with a client on goal discipline and something they said has stuck with me:

"You're young so you might not get this, but I'm only 60*, so I feel like I have so much opportunity ahead of me but I'm not following through on my goals."

With so many posts here talking about how it's 'too late' because they're going on 30, this feels worth sharing. 30 Is a number that represents a cutoff point for so many people, yet more than 60% of our lives will be spent being older than that.

You only ever experience life at exactly the age you're at. Even without unfairly comparing yourself to others, relativity will always make it easy to feel like you're at the end of the line because you are always the oldest you've been.

There is a lot of value in learning to identify with your future self and a lot of self-sabotage to be found in a self-fulfilling prophecy that says you're too old to change.