Hey guys, my name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist and life coach putting

self-betterment into a shotglass because let's face it who's got that much time

these days. I come unpolished, unrehearsed, on purpose.

If you're looking for more of a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place.

Okay, I'm officially 46 years of age.

Every year I sit down and write a blog post, I gather my thoughts, I reflect on the year,

and tomorrow I will probably be somewhere far and I will have gotten

there on my motorcycle and there will most likely be coffee in my hand.

And I'm not sure if I'll be writing on a computer or phone,

but I'll be jotting down my thoughts.

And these will be some of them.

So I want to share them with you, and of course I will expand tomorrow.

But these are my learnings for the year.

I have a few.

The first one is, this is the first year I officially feel my age. Now listen

most of my friends are younger than me and since I don't have kids or a picket fence it's easy to forget how old I am I feel like I've been

30 for the last like 10 years and I know that age is just a number, especially today. We have finally shaken old timelines and

blueprints and you know marriage is not a must. Kids are not an option. We have

we're reinventing ourselves and catching our second wind later in life, and I get that.

We're starting new businesses and creating new lives and chapters. I'm all about it and I plan to be doing butterfly pull-ups and

wheelies on my hearty at age 80 but fuck I'm 46 which means I'm now tipping

toward 50 and I know 50 is a new 40 but look okay stop let me whine a bit it is my birthday I

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