A Conspiracy meet up in Toronto.
Advice from Future You
If you haven’t read Peter Attia’s book, Outlive, I can save you some time. Here’s my three-part summary.
People think about having “a good death” … but it might be more helpful to think about having “a good last decade.”
For most people, the last decade of their life is difficult. Things start going wrong … physically, cognitively, socially.
So, start training now for the last decade of your life. Minimize that decline, maximize what’s possible, and live your best life now.
Most of what Attia talks about — when he talks about training — is physical. Building strength; endurance; and flexibility; getting better sleep; and reducing stress.
You can go down the nerd rabbit hole on all of these things. For me, I’m working on the Pareto principle, and focusing on the 20% that will make the 80% difference. For me, that’s a little more sleep, less sugar, and more intense exercise.
There’s one factor that Attia mentions that’s beyond the physical. It’s a combination of mindset (growth), connections (build your community), and purpose (do something that matters).
We pause for a message from Future You…
=> Get on it!
The best time to start was some while ago.
The second-best time to start is now.
Dr Attia works in decades, and we can too.
Here’s the question Future You would like Present You to answer:
What would it mean to arrive at 2035 in better shape than you are now? Both physical and in terms of your mindset, connections, and purpose?
What would need to be true?
Tip #1: Don’t hire me as your fitness coach
I’m not the person to ask about those physical elements. I don’t look that great in lycra, and I’m in student mode myself, learning what works best for me to become an awesome 67-year-old (and then, 77-year-old, and so on.)
Tip #2: I can help you with mindset, community, and purpose
Over the last four years, I’ve been building an ecosystem of community and encouragement, process and provocation, to help people take on something that matters.
It’s no small thing.
It requires a restlessness with the way things are, the sense that there’s still more there for you to be and do, and the courage to say Yes to something new.
Lots of people are, well, too timid. Or too comfortable.
But for people who want a little more — and that knowing might be really obvious, or it might just be something that’s an amorphous, ephemeral, but undeniable something — then I have people and a process that want to meet you.
Consider joining The Conspiracy, our community of like-minded souls, working alongside each other on Worthy Goals, Great Work, Things that Matter.
I teach or coach there every month, but the magic really lies in the other Conspirators who are not only up to great things, but relentlessly supportive of those around them doing the same.
(Doors opened today until April 29th for our May cohort.)
Training for that last decade
Your ability to be strong and flexible will really help you in those last ten years. You’ll have more capacity, more confidence, and more self-sufficiency.
But you’re not just striving to be a 93-year-old with a six pack.
You want to have purpose and community.
There’s a place for that for you right now.
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