If you take the "Default Road" (and my bet is you will if you click away from this page without taking action - I'm serious here), you are following the path that most
people take.
"What's wrong with that", you ask? Well, (shrug), that's the Default Road you've seen on this page.
And that's just Obstacle No 1: Our cultural norms don't help older people be their best selves.
Obstacle No 2 is also cultural: Older people (for various reasons*) are shown a back-seat, asked to sit on the sidelines and watch (the game of life or TV).
That's when they get even more Disregarded and Dismissed.
However, the worst fallout of this treatment is that we then dismiss and disregard ourselves.
The result? We do nothing for ourselves, and we go downhill, faster.
Obstacle No 3 is yourself (yes, You!): Without real help (maybe from the tools here), you will, sooner than later,
move back to the Default Road. Look: We are distracted. We lose focus (see point No 5). Your best bet, therefore, is to reach out for help to become an empowered older person.
Obstacle No 4 is yourself & Inertia (a powerful force that helps us get... Nothing): Yeah, sure, even when we know what we should be doing we don't move in the right direction. Find the tools to help with your inertia here. (No, it's not about Motivation...)
Obstacle No 5 is Distraction (Mobiles, Streaming Movies, Social Media, etc): Hey, I'm not a techno-phobe1. But the 1001 distractions of today ensure we lose our focus on the Main Game, and we're down another rabbit-hole.
(Hence my previous bet that if you click away from this page without taking action, you're going to be another 'Default Roadster' (to your long-term loss).)
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1 Me, a technophobe? Well, I program, train and educate people, all of which needs strong technical skills. But I use tech, not feed myself into it.
* Many of the reasons for the Older demographic being dismissed are valid: No physical abilities, no spirit, looking to the past instead of the future.