6 Reasons Why It’s Never Too Late To Quit and Start Over

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“I wish I started earlier” Have you ever told yourself that? Or how about “It’s too late” or “it’s not going to happen for me anymore”. My follow up is: Too late for what? Too late for who? Who made up these rules? We are all made to feel that we need to have our lives figured out by 21, but to put that false expectation on yourself is absurd. Our current education system is teaching us subjects not problem solving, emotional management or self awareness. Without experience under our belts, we rush into making bad decisions. Realize there are benefits in starting later, and many people have like Samuel Jackon and Stan Lee! Today you’ll get a brand new perspective and start becoming the person you should’ve been.

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0:00.0	What would my younger self be sad that I stopped doing? Is it that I stop playing an instrument?
0:04.8	Is it that I stop playing a sport? Is it that I stopped being entrepreneurial? Is it that I stop being risk taking?
0:12.3	What is it? For me when I asked that question it was that I stopped using words to express my feelings.
0:18.3	I stopped sharing that with the world because I loved writing when I grew up. I loved poetry. I loved
0:25.0	spoken word. I stopped using words in that way.
0:34.2	Hey everyone, welcome back to on purpose the number one health podcast in the world thanks to
0:40.6	each and every single one of you. I'm genuinely so happy and so grateful that you listen in every
0:48.4	single week to learn to grow and to invest in your mindset to invest in your happiness to invest
0:56.6	in your joy. And I love seeing the messages that show me that you leave these sessions
1:02.8	feeling that joy in your life that you leave these sessions feeling equipped feeling focused
1:08.3	feeling direction in your life. And that's all I'm trying to do as I'm just trying to facilitate
1:14.1	growth. I'm trying to facilitate you to have the resources to make the changes and the difference
1:20.4	that you're seeking in your life. It means so much to me that you're here right now whether you're
1:26.5	walking your dog whether you're commuting whatever you're up to and that you're so fascinated
1:31.6	to learn the six reasons why it's never too late to quit something and start doing what you love.
1:38.3	Now here's where we kind of carry it all wrong here's where it starts to get complicated in our
1:45.6	minds. So we're made to feel that we need to have our lives figured out by 21. How many of you've
1:55.2	been in that position? Not your head raise your hands say yes out loud. How many of you've been in
2:00.5	that position where you felt when you were 21 that you needed to have your life figured out.
2:05.8	You needed to know what job you were going to do you needed to know how and where you were going
2:10.4	to live you needed to know so many things there was so much pressure around that age or whatever
2:16.0	age you graduated. And that's the thing it's usually the year we graduate college or maybe we start
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