Late-Bloomer Manifesto (Part One)

-It is never too late to learn the skills your parents did not teach you.

It is never too soon to stop blaming your parents for being unable to teach you that which they did not know.

-It is never too late to learn and master any life skill or absorb any archive of knowledge or wisdom you need to honor your responsibility for your life and dreams.

In fact, this is the best time in the history of humanity, to have a desperate need for self-development.

Education is everywhere. You just need to know where to look and how to focus your energies and attention appropriately.

-It is never too late to outgrow your vices.

The reason vices are so hard to quit is because they have been there for you like the most reliable friend in the world, who also happens to slip you poison right under your nose.

Find new methods of satisfying the same voids your vices fill. Methods which do not rob you of your life and liberty.

-It is never too late to turn over a new leaf (and new life) with money.

I am serious. It does not matter how many years you have been hedonistically squandering, gambling, living paycheck-to-paycheck, or surviving with no paychecks at all.

In fact, the more years and the stupider your blunders, the better. It takes a true legacy of idiocy before the proper idiot gets tired enough of negative outcomes to say ENOUGH.

Overcoming financial ineptitude is a matter of education, practice, analysis, application, and rewiring bad programming.

Underline this process with patience for and persistence in your process.

Pursue your new ways diligently, and watch the tree of your life grow and bear its fruit.

-It is never too late to see your mistakes through other people’s eyes, realizing the hurt you’ve caused, and resolving to make it right, at very least, by consciously avoiding repeat performances of past calamities.

You may have never meant harm. I do not mean harm to the fauna in my yard when I mow the lawn, but ask that fauna how it feels and it may tell a different story.

-It is never too late to change your mind about your most stubborn beliefs, the ones where if you look at them objectively, you will see that your adherence to them has wreaked havoc on those you love, kept you stuck, and turned you into all the things that bother you about yourself.

It is never too late to surrender, let go, and listen at least as much as you speak.

-It is never too late to realize that you wish you’d known about the relaxation potential of hot Epsom salt baths much earlier in life.