Part 2: How Do I Know If I Am Aging Gracefully? [Academy]

I had a lot of feedback from my last podcast on aging gracefully, with a couple of questions that kept coming up. I’m going to handle one of those questions in this podcast and the other one next week. The question I will address today is…

How Do I Know If I Am Aging Gracefully?

Remember last week’s podcast where I talked about the fact that we don’t want to age gracefully. To the average person, aging gracefully means that as we get older we begin to slow down naturally, we start to take life easier, stop doing activities we used to do, gain some weight, and start sleeping in. People who age gracefully believe that’s what they’re supposed to do or deserve to do when they get older. It’s their excuse for slowing down or even becoming lazy. They may even use the excuse my dad used as he got older. He would say, “I’ve gotten my share of exercise and done my share of work over the years, let the young people do it. 

But slowing down and aging gracefully is not my goal and it shouldn’t be yours either. Instead, you should be increasing your commitment to remaining active and working even harder to keep your body and mind moving. In my case, I call it going full throttle. You need to be conscious of how you’re aging because you can start aging gracefully and not even realize it. Before you know it, figuratively speaking you’re an invalid both physically and mentally.  

Of course this concept applies to all people, but right now I’m going to speak to salespeople. Here is a list of indicators that may help anyone in sales answer the question, “How do I know if I’m a sales rep who is aging gracefully?”

You’re a sales rep who is aging gracefully if...