So a lot of people in my life around my age are either having health issues or are dealing with someone who's having health issues or was older. And there was something I was thinking about. It really hit me today, so I thought, let me get the microphone and come to you.
Guys. Welcome to fifty plus. I'm James add Junior.
So I have created and are creating and have been creating this business, two businesses, almost three.
Over the last sixteen years.
And I was thinking about this when I I went to the doctor and my blowberg didn't come back good first time ever. So I don't know what it is. As I'm just recording, I have no idea what's going on. I have some ideas, but I don't really know. I'm going to a doctor. Actually, I went to doctor today as this saera. I'm at the doctor today, so I want to find out. But just even before all that, I started hitting going, Wow, what if I'm surround by people whose health is just failing?
I go, what if my health? What if I learn I have.
A diagnosis of some sort that's serious? What do I do with my business and stuff?
Is that? It?
Am I done to be pass it on? As anybody I pass it on to nobody want it? Do I try to sell a business? Like, I don't even know what I would do. Does Doug Hes get it because he's been so into it, or Tammy Govello or pregnant Ran or do I get the flobbo? I mean, like what do I do? Like, so you say here, you can inherit, this is yours. There's all the passwords, you do whatever you want with it.
I don't know.
That's That's just it's crazy to me because I like, right now I'm talking to you, I don't feel sick, but I feel like there's something wrong with me. But I'm not sick. So I'm trying to fix parts my way. So I'm trying to fix that and all that kind of stuff. But it was just like, wow, this is like a really real thought, Like there's folks who are counting on me. And I was thinking about future stuff that I was working on and thinking about, like I want to get that huge studio in Indiana and all
these things I'm thinking about. I'm like, we lost are things serious happens where that's it. I have to retire where I have to go, Okay, it can't work, that's it.
I don't know. I haven't thought I think about that.
I guess on some level it's it's it's so it's not just mortality, which is mixed in with it, right, but it's about my work. That's some job that I worked for and I just quit, and that's what I retire.
It's it.
This is like my I have unfinished books, I have unfinished Really does that just all end? Do I still have dreams? Do they just all stop?
You know?
It's uh, I'm just getting started. I really feel that way. It's like I'm just getting started. And you know, so I found my passion later in life and I have plans. So that's the first time I really thought about that. I'm sure anybody fifty plus there's something that you come to a point when you think about that. I remember talking to one of my fellow entrepreneurs and she was hitting sixty. It was a couple of years ago, and she was like, you know, how much longer am I
going to do this? And I understand the pivoting and changing. I understand the modifying, modification of duties and what you want. I mean, there's things I don't want do anymore, like, for example, professional organizing. I don't want to I don't want to do its organizing owhich anymore. I like it sometimes because it keeps me kind of hands fresh and the thing. But getting older, I'm getting tired. I don't
want to do so much. I want to do more teaching and speaking all I can't have which I'm doing. So that's something. It's a pivot, right, you go, Okay, I want to do less in house organizing, less out
in the field, more at home. Okay, but that's that's not you crazy crazy right, But then you have then you have the other side where it's like, okay, what if I'm just getting started and like my media business and I have like ten more albums when I put out five more books, like there are things I really want to red carpets, there's like stuff I want to do. I'm like, that's a different story. There's the first my
ever though about that. Because I have a friend who got some bad news and she really is some bad news and I'm just like, wow, what does that mean for me? If I get bad news or news where it's different from it's different from having hiatsis when I got when I got the bells palsy. It was a year I had a year off. My mother got sick, almost died. It's like six months I've kind of had off.
I had something still out there, but for the most part six months because I take a lot of stuff in advance, so like, even if I stopped now, I have new unreleased stuff that could be released that'll keep me going for release the rest of the year.
That went after, I would just have to edit and put out.
But I mean there's things that are already kind of I have some shows I want released, i'd released themthing like, it's all kind of it's all kind of I have stuff in the vaults. I have music in the vaults. I could be together if I had to fight. So it's kind of like I've been recording forms. I can getting all this stuff archived and then when and then
I put it out, Okay, something happens. But I was so busy watching my mom and watched my brother with his different ailments, watching my mom and her go up, and now I was like, wait a minute, now it's my turn, and I have some I know, I have some teeth gum issues too. I'm once, say, a dentist, so you know, I'm getting everything checked. My eyes are good, though I'm gonna injected. I'm just like, I know I have some stuff going on there, so it's like it's it's gonna be interesting.
But this is where you start thinking about it. I guess.
Is then at fifty plus when you start thinking about it. So I don't know how you guys at home or or do you guys have that answered. I mean, like I said, unless you're not a creative, or you're just a person who just as a job and you're like, Okay, well I'll quit the job at sixty five and I'll retire and I'll live off the money or whatever.
But me, I have to make money. I have to work. I didn't know how much I would get a month if I didn't work. I mean, it's just all this stuff I'm thinking about.
But this is all regular stuff, right that we can think about at this age and this stage in our lives. We'll be on the street as long as I can do this. You posted this is fascinating on some level to me too. As I'm going through it.
It's the end of July.
I can't believe it is the last July Tuesday in July I think is it. Let's see, No, we have more. We have one more July Tuesday. Dang, I thought it was the last one. One more July Tuesday. So I'll talk to you next Tuesday again, and maybe I'll have some answers for you from today.
Who knows, but we will talk again.
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