Setting Tone and Purpose, an Important First Step
After I’ve been posting in this blog for a few months, this first message will become all but forgotten. When the archive includes so much more current stuff, almost nobody will dig back down to the beginning to see where it all started.
Nevertheless, it’s important to state — both for myself and my readers — why I’m doing this.
Of course there’s the surface goal. I want to communicate with my clients, potential clients and casual passersby, laying out observations, advice and learnings that may benefit somebody besides myself. In that sense, I’m just a solitary man, sitting at my desk, perhaps on the other side of the world from you, typing my notes out into the ether, not knowing if anybody anywhere will ever stumble across this and read any of it.
An act of faith.
But in another sense, it expresses a confidence that what I have to say actually can and will benefit somebody real. Also a confidence that I can attract the attention of those whom I expect will benefit from this sharing.
So, all that navel contemplation aside, here in specific terms is who I’m writing for.
Increasing numbers of Baby Boomers and Seniors are into their Golden Years, but life isn’t golden for them. Many are still struggling to make ends meet. And they’re wondering how much longer they can keep themselves together. Driving over bridges, they might be asking themselves, “Could this be my next home in a year’s time?”
Worse, many are feeling that their “someday” dreams, the hopes they’ve secretly carried for years, are never going to happen. A whole generation is walking around wondering, “is it too late for me? Did I wait too long?”
I was born at the leading edge of the Baby Boom surge (in 1943), so I’ve been into my “Golden Years” for some time already. Thus, I can share some of the things I’ve learned about survival and thriving.
I can share things like:
- Years don’t make a person old — “old” is an attitude…
- All your years of experience can be valuable, no matter what that experience is…
- Even more valuable than your experience is your level of confidence…
- Confidence is a skill, and it can be learned. At any age…
- Old dogs can learn new tricks…
- Most of those tricks aren’t hard, they’re just new…
- Self respect, self reliance and self help make you feel gooooood…
- It’s loads easier to learn this stuff if you know somebody already doing it…
So my purpose is to share with you all the ways I know for you to feel good about yourself, to be valuable to yourself and others, to be self reliant rather than helpless and drifting, and to be a bigger success — right here, right now in your Golden Years — than you ever dreamed you could.
Why am I doing this? Reread what I wrote above about being valuable to yourself and others. Over the course of my life, that has grown more important to me, instead of diminishing.
And I expect the same is true for you as well. If it is, then this blog and this website are for you. You are the specific, exact person I’m hoping to benefit. As you and your life become more successful tomorrow, that makes me more successful too.
For truly Golden Years,
Charles B.
