Aggression is one of the last dirty words in our culture.

You can be crass, you can be rude, you can even be profane, but, oh, aggressive, don't be

aggressive, except it's wrong, dead wrong.

I promise you nothing of meaning and transcendence will come into your life passively.

It's time for you to get into the arena to push back against a passive, mediocre existence.

I'm Brian Toam.

This is the aggressive life.

My name is Brian Tome.

We're going to talk about something that's pretty aggressive today.

We're going to talk a little bit about a bunch of things, one of them being aging.

Aging, you say, how is that aggressive?

It just kind of happens.

Well, yes, it does happen.

Things start to sag.

Things start to wrinkle.

And a bunch of other things take place as well.

But how you treat and steward your life will make a difference

about your age. When we're 22 years old, the idea of saving for retirement is just awful. Who

wants to save retirement? That's why very few of us do. By the time you get to my age, 53, every dollar

you've put in way, way earlier in your life, you're kind of thankful that you did because you actually

can see when you might actually use it. This is what aging does to us. It numbs us down. We think that

it's going to happen to me someday, but I want to ignore it and stay away from it. No,

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