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• Find a partner by a certain age.
• Get married by a certain age.
• Find a career by a certain age.
• Buy a house, have kids, climb the ladder… and on and on it goes.

It’s like we’re downhill skiers, trying to stay within the gates, convinced that if we veer off-course, we won’t have the “perfect” life.

But what happens if your list doesn’t match up with the one you were given?

What if you want more than what’s expected?

What if you want to take a different path entirely?

Well, I’ll tell you what happens—you end up feeling bored, confined, and living a life that isn’t yours. It’s like trying to find happiness using someone else’s map. If your destination isn’t on it, you’re never going to get there.

The Moment I Realized I Was Following the Wrong Script

And as ridiculous as it sounds now, I genuinely believed my life was over.

I thought if I hadn’t written a book by now… game over.
If I hadn’t started a podcast by now… game over.
If I hadn’t figured out how to make money online by now… game over.

From where I stood, it felt like I’d missed my chance. Like all I had left was a slow, regret-filled slide toward the graveyard, haunted by dreams I’d never act on.

But here’s the truth… I was wrong.

Since then, I’ve:
✔ Written popular kids’ books.
✔ Recorded podcast episodes downloaded thousands of times.
✔ Put my face on video—even though I once thought that was beyond me.

How did it happen?

I stopped following their script and started writing my own.

I realized that time wasn’t up for me. That if I wanted those things, I didn’t have to wait. I just had to take action—not someday, but right now.

You Don’t Have to Follow the Script Either

Bob Proctor once said that most of us are extras in our own life stories. Instead of stepping onto centre stage, we stand at the back, sweeping the set.

If you want a happy, fulfilling life, it needs to be your life—written by your rules.

• If you’re not happy with what you’re doing, try something new.
• If you think age is holding you back, remind yourself that action beats age every time.
• If you want to reinvent yourself, do it. You don’t need permission.

You don’t need to find yourself. You need to create yourself.

That’s exactly what I did.

I went from shelf-stacker → writer → podcaster → digital product creator because I decided to.

I didn’t wait for permission. I just started doing what those kinds of people do. And lo and behold, when you act like a writer, you become a writer. When you act like a podcaster, you become a podcaster.

You are what you do.

The Best Years of Your Life Are Still Ahead

✅ Stop looking at the clock. Your age isn’t a deadline.
✅ Stop following a script that doesn’t work for you.
✅ Stop assuming that the checkbox life leads to happiness—because if you look around, most of the people following it aren’t that happy.

If their formula doesn’t work for them, why use it?

Plot your own course.

Forget the rules.
Forget the checkboxes.
And stop being an extra in your own life.

The best years of your life could be the ones ahead of you—not the ones behind.

Have a good one!

Now, I could have started today’s post with the quote “Every master was once a beginner,” but I know you’d just nod your head in agreement and move on, lesson lost.

We all know, deep down, that it’s true. We know that whatever we’re about to do means starting at the bottom rung of the ladder. But here’s the thing—we don’t want to start at the bottom. We want to be the beginner who’s good. We want our first article to be good. Our first book to be good. Our first business idea to be good. That’s the starting point we wish we could go from.

Let’s skip the crap and terrible work, because who wants to start there?

The Truth? There’s Only One Path to Greatness.

And it looks like this:
Try → Crap → Okay → Good → Great.

It’s like a train journey with mandatory stops, whether you like it or not. You might want to go straight to Greatville, but the only station that allows passengers on is Crapville.

And like the worst train service in the world, you can complain, wish it would go faster, or try to skip a few stops—but the train doesn’t care. If you want to get to Greatville, this is the only way to get there.

Why Most People Never Make It to Great

Why?

Because they’re not willing to deal with:

• Embarrassment – They don’t want to look bad.
• Criticism – They don’t want to be judged.
• Self-Doubt – They question every action.
• Impatience – They want success delivered like an Amazon parcel.

So, they hop off the train early. Some at Try, others at Crap, and they give up before they ever get to Great.

But here’s what they don’t see—each stop comes with its own baddie, waiting to push you off the train.

At Try, it whispers: “You’re not cut out for this.”
At Crap, it says: “See? You’re terrible. You should quit.”
At Okay, it teases: “You’re alright, but you’ll never be great.”

It wants you to quit early because the longer you stay on, the harder it is to make you stop. Those who make it past Crap and Okay aren’t far from Great, and by then, they’re too invested to quit. But in the beginning? That’s the easiest place to break you.

How to Improve Your Chances of Getting to Great

1. See It as a Journey.
   You’ve got to be willing to be terrible before you can get good. The people who make it aren’t afraid of being awful at the start. They don’t let their ego stop them from progressing.
2. Lean Into Being Terrible.
   Being bad at something isn’t the problem—staying bad is. If you quit at Crap, that’s where you’ll stay. But if you push through, you’ll improve. It’s not your final destination unless you make it your final destination.
3. Ignore the Opinions That Don’t Matter.
   If you don’t believe me, read the biographies of the greats. They didn’t start off as legends. They pushed through Crap and kept going when everything seemed stacked against them.

And remember—being Crap is better than not Trying at all.

Have a good one!