These biomechanics will rewrite how we live our lives

Imagine continuing to be 'in your prime' throughout your 50's, 60's, 70's and beyond. Sound crazy?

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I haven’t written a good philosophical piece in awhile and i kind of missed it. So I figured I’m going to write one now.

And it reflects how I feel at age 47 and how I notice my mindset differs from a lot of other peers my age.

I don’t feel like i’m in the ‘twilight’ of my career at all. I feel like a hungry beast who just wants to do more and more. Who wants to make up for lost time.

And the reason for this is that this stuff extends how long we, as humans, will remain highly productive for. By a lot!

Let me explain.

Back in late 2020 all I could think about was my path to retirement

I’d left myself with an unsupported posterior open bite for a pretty extended period of time between late 2019 and mid 2020. Meaning I wasn’t wearing a mouthguard at night.

Why? I was just an idiot and I was working a lot at a very stressful job. I didn’t want headaches or anything.

But by late 2020 I felt shattered. Completely spent both physically and mentally.

I was exhaused by around 6pm and all I could was veg out in front of some combo of Netflix/HBO/Amazon Prime Video. My brain was fried.

And all I thought about on a recurring basis was.. “How do I retire?”

I’d rework the math in my head on an almost weekly basis. I’d play with different scenarios in terms of lifestyle and how much more i’d need to live that lifestyle.

And it always felt good to know that we were already in a pretty low cost country (Thailand) and I could pretty much retire whenever I wanted to if we stayed where we were. However returning to a high cost country would have been impossible.

But in hindsight it was such a defeatist attitude. All I was thinking about was “how do I just give up and sit on my ass?”

But that is what these biomechanics do to you when you’re on the wrong side of them.

Now I never think about retirement

These days I literally never think about this. I’m heavily invested in the stock market and things have tumbled this week (because of the tariffs, etc).

But I never bothered to look once at what happened to my investment portfolio. And I don’t even fear it.

I just don’t care.

That shit is my plan ‘B’… and i’m gonna do a LOT more work on my plan ‘A’ before i ever think much about plan ‘B’ again.

I love the work we do at Reviv and feel like we’re only just scratching the surface. There is so much more work to do.

There is still so much I want to achieve.

There are still so many people that i need to prove wrong and then leave in the dust.

All i think about are my plans. My plans for the things I wanna achieve in the years ahead.

Almost as if I just graduated university and am 21 years old again.

Retirement sucks ass!

This is how I view it now. And this is not to offend anyone out there that is retired. I’m sure some folks love it.

But it’s not for me.

Each day I wake up loaded with energy and drive. I wanna work. I wanna achieve new goals.

If I was just sitting on a beach with my legs up I’d hate it. I know because sometimes my wife forces me to go to these beaches for the weekend and I indeed hate it.

Or rather I hate not working. And so I don’t.

I’m usually sitting in our hotel room working most of the time. Not because i have to. Simply because I love it.

Our whole internal clock will change with these biomechanics

When you step back and think about how we’re wired you should realize how it is based on the old biomechanical paradigm.

We are at our prime in our 20’s and 30’s.

We’re slowing down in our 40’s and therefore should already be in upper management.

By our 50’s we’re already doing things significantly slower and so working far less hours. So we should have more or less ‘made it’ by then.

And by our 60’s we’re already chilling in retirement or at least semi-retirement. If you did well you perhaps have some board positions and travel for the occasional meeting.

But i’m sorry… that shit sucks.

And i’m very confident these biomechanics are gonna flush that entire paradigm down the toilet.

I wanna be busting my ass as if I’m 20 when i’m 60… then 70…. then 80… and beyond!

Not because I’m financially required to. I’ll be free to stop anytime I wanted from a financial perspective.

Rather only because I will still function like i’m 20 that entire time. And for a healthy person… busting your ass and achieving your goals is far more exciting than sitting on your ass as a retired fart.

Closing thoughts

I know this person that recently moved into a retirement home in the US.

They didn’t want to but were forced to because they just had too many health issues not to.

The person had retired a little over a decade earlier after a very successful corporate career.

They’d had lots of plans to travel and do all kinds of things. Instead they spent most of the last decade sitting on their couch because their physical condition didn’t allow them to do much more.

They’d saved their entire lives and could have afforded to live it up. But that never happened. And now that money goes towards the absorbitant fee that their nursing home collects each month.

This is what ‘retirement’ looks like for most Americans these days. They are pushed out of their company early and then stay home nursing various health ailments.

That is some sad ass shit in my book.

These biomechanics are gonna rewrite that bullshit completely.

And i’m gonna pave the way. Just watch ;)