I'm Too _______ (whatever) To Do Great Things

Do you think you're too young to accomplish something great? Too old to make a difference? All the people below prove that age is just a number and that no matter what your age, you can make your mark on the world, just like they did!

Before you start making your excuses, consider this list of accomplishments at all ages:

• At age 2, speed skater Bonnie Blair began skating. She later won five Olympic gold medals.


• At age 7, Asher Bradshaw is on his way to becoming a skateboarding pro.


• At age 10, Remmi Smith is the star of her own cooking show.


• At age 12, Aubree Oliverson has become an award-winning composer and violinist.


• At age 16, Errick Smith became the youngest person ever to fly both a plane and a helicopter solo.


• At age 21, college dropout Steven Jobs co-founded Apple Computer.


• At age 30, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion.


• At age 40, Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run.


• At age 50, Samuel Adams directed the Boston Tea Party.


• At age 60, Rod Peeks learned how to overcome years of anger; and at age 65, he developed a website to share that knowledge with thousands of people. It’s called Finding Personal Peace.


• At age 65, Colonel Harlan Sanders built a family recipe for fried chicken into a business empire now know as KFC.


• At age 69, Ronald Reagan became President of the United States.


• At age 70, fitness expert Jack LaLanne pulled 70 boats holding 70 people for 1.5 miles. And he did it wearing handcuffs and shackles!


• At age 75, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated President of South Africa.


• At age 78, Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocals.


• At age 78, Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for literature.


• At age 80, actor George Burns won an Oscar for his role in the movie “The Sunshine Boys”.


• At age 90, “Banana George” Blair went barefoot waterskiing – he became the oldest person to do so.


• At age 95, Nola Ochs received her Bachelor’s Degree and at age 98, she earned a Master’s Degree in liberal arts with a concentration in history, at which time she applied for a teaching position in her school’s history department.


• At age 100, Grandma Moses illustrated the famous book “The Night Before Christmas”.


• At age 109, Ruth Hamilton was the world’s oldest blogger.


• At age 121, Jeanne Louise Clement recorded a rap CD.

If you want to explore what people have accomplished at your age, click here.

Somebody (maybe it was you) said, “So some people have done good things at all kinds of ages. I can't do anything.”

Let's do an experiment. Ready?

1. Put your hand in front of your mouth.


2. Take a deep breath


3. Let the air out slowly.

What did you feel on your hand? What does this prove?

It proves that you are alive. If you're not alive, that is one huge barrier to accomplishing anything. But you don't have that excuse.

So what is keeping you from doing good, if not great, things?

It's all in your mind. You have allowed your mind to be filled with negative thinking. “I'm too old;” “I'm too young;” “I'm not smart enough;” “I can't do anything right;” and on and on.

When you learn how to break the shackles of all this negative thinking, who knows what you can do? Maybe nothing more than having a life filled with love that you can share with the whole world!!!

Go for it!


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