3 stories of success after 50

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Three inspiring stories, know that it's never too late to follow your heart's desire.

Last year, John c Taylor, Ph.D., become the only one. In his 90 s complete an American rapid sprint all-around three triathlon approval when he won a gold in the summer national senior games in Houston, Texas.

Not too shabby, especially for a person only in his s began to run. Whether Joe ham, who will resign finally realize his dream, he show the description don DE LeiPo "advertising madman" 36 years old, or those who do not Julia Child, began to her landmark cooking career until the issue of the master cooking French cuisine art "when she is fifty, the United States has many possibilities, regardless of the passage of time.

Taylor, 91 years old, live in Atlanta, said the first operation sixty years old stimulate competition spark, will never disappear. It was then that he set the target for 90 and complete triathlon. He said, people are shocked when they meet a 91 - year - old capacity of 600 m swimming, 15 miles riding a bicycle and 5 km. Recently, he and his wife in a restaurant when his story brought several waiter tears.

“I figure their reaction is because it gives them hope that they don’t have to dwindle away when they get old,” he says.

Like Taylor, Charlotte Rogan has refused to simply fade away, at the same time bringing hope to all aspiring novelists. The 59 - year - old Connecticut resident was once best known as a busy mother to triplets. Few people knew that she wrote books in what little spare time she had, an urge that started in her mid - 30 s.

Rogan went to extremes to find tidbits of time that going so far as hiring a babysitter, driving around the block and then sneaking back into her house to write. Though she like Taylor, charlotte Logan refused to simply disappeared, and at the same time hope all aspiring novelist. At the age of 59 Connecticut residents were best known as a busy mother triplets. Few people know that her book in the little spare time she, a kind of impulse, start in her 35 years old.

Logan to extreme find time lace news, and developing a hire a baby-sitter, drive around the block, then slipped back to her house to write. Although she finally completed five books, has not published, until a friend accidentally put forward by one of her manuscript to an agent. Logan ready to be sent, in the last minute, she added, "The lifeboat." The book was published this year, it doesn't. 12, the New York times bestseller list.

“If you love it, don’t let it go,” she advises anyone with a dream. “How else are you going to spend your time — doing something you don’t love?”

This is what Rebecca waring crane, fifty, and for many years. Grew up in a traditional family and conservative values, she is always a abide by the rules. In her career, she said that she often feel lost. She had as a writer, elementary school and university teachers, children's librarian and stay-at-home moms, until a periwinkle blue chair caught a glimpse of in the coffee shop one day with her potential talent to the surface.

“I went out and got a chair someone had left on the side of the road and it sat on my front porch, which became my studio,” she remembers. “I bought three colors of paint, two small brushes — just a little investment. … Finally, I talked myself into it, saying, ‘It’s only paint.’ And I started painting.”
 

It used for more than 9 years time, but last autumn she finally gave up her teaching work start a second chance, the design of a proper name for a business, she gave new life to the old furniture and accessories to beautify their with her strong design. She has been accepted for three art shows in her hometown of California.

“It’s never too late to live happily ever after, to honor what brings you joy and make the world better,” she explains. “I don’t think time matters ... I feel so much more vibrant and excited [now].”

Waiting for the dream in the later in life can make the taste of achievements, the more sweet. In the future life would be the perfect time for a longer delay, when you can use all the experience of life process. “I feel that my brain at this stage is a very good one,” Rogan says. “I think these are very productive years.”

Taylor has no end self-improvement and productivity. Knee joint replacement, in October this year, he wants to play in the summer of 2013 the national senior games in Cleveland. He also set a new goal: to become the first 100 years of the completion of the triathlon.