Extraordinary Ordinary People over 60 years Old
Who Overcome their Own Limiting Beliefs!
How to Become Extraordinary?
More than 95 percent of people won’t persevere in their commitments — whether those are for health, career, relationships or whatever. They’ll always find some excuse to take the easy way out. And, even more universally, they lack the daily plan and reminders to actually do what they set out after. So if you do positive things consistently, and you plan for those things daily, then you’re automatically extraordinary.
Start the habit of planning, write down in your Habit Tracker all the habits for your self-encouragement, set out the actions you need to excel in every other area of life: in your career, in your personal life, and in your health and fitness.
Every morning create an intention and action your routine of extraordinary thinking, take ten minutes to plan out the physical actions for an extraordinary day. The best way to do this is to decide what five-to-eight goals you can accomplish just for this day — work, fun, learning, etc. Top five goals go on top; the rest go on the bottom of the page. In the middle, you’ll write daily recurring goals: things like meditation, self-encouragement, exercising, eating healthy, reading, etc.
Here are examples of Ordinary People who decided to do Extraordinary things with their life. They dropped their limiting beliefs.
Super Models at age 80 Wang Deshun (male) and Carmen Dell Orefice (female)
Günther Krabbenhöft at 80 Best Dressed Award
Günther Krabbenhöft, an elderly ‘young’ man was recently photographed in Berlin near the Kotbusser Tor station.“I find that I dress pretty normal,” Krabbenhöft said, “I’ve always dressed like this. When I went to work, when I go to exercise. I want to look at myself with joy. It’s also always a reflection of my inner self.”
Colonel Sanders started KFC at 63
Harland Sanders was no slouch as a young man, but he didn’t become the string-tied chicken mogul we know and love until he was 65. “The Colonel had a relatively successful restaurant and motel on U.S. 25 in Corbin, KY, but when Interstate 75 opened seven miles from Sanders’ restaurant, his business begin to dwindle. Rather than go broke, he began to work on perfecting his spice blend and quick-cooking technique for making fried chicken in 1952. He then began touring the country selling Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, and by the time he sold the business for $2 million in 1964, there were over 900 of them. At one stage of his life he had a failed suicide attempt, was broke, an alcoholic and destitute. His limiting belief and self destructive nature at that time did need see the huge potential and the multi-million dollar business. Once he released that limiting belief history was made.
Laura Ingalls Wilder started at 65
Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series may be some of the world’s most beloved children’s books, but she was no spring chicken when she sat down to write them. Wilder didn’t publish her first novel until she was 65 years old, and she still managed to crank out 12 books in her series, although some were published posthumously.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses in her 70s
Anna Mary Robertson Moses is one of the biggest names in American folk art, and she didn’t even pick up a brush until she was well into her eighth decade. Grandma Moses was originally a big fan of embroidery, but once her arthritis grew too painful for her to hold a needle, she decided to give painting a try in the mid-1930s. She was 76 when she cranked out her first canvas, and she lived another 25 years as a painter—long enough to see the canvases she had sold for $3 fetch prices north of $10,000.
Prabhupada started Hare Krishna at 69
The founder of the Hare Krishna movement was 69 years old before he started the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In his native India, Prabhupada had been a chemist and a Sanskrit scholar in Calcutta, but in 1965 he came to New York City with just fifty bucks, a pair of cymbals, and a desire to spread the teachings of Lord Krishna.
Prabhupada got off to a modest start by sitting on a sidewalk in the East Village and chanting, but by the time of his death in 1977 his legions of followers were rumored to be thousands strong.
Ernestine Shepherd 83 and started bodybuilder at 56
Ernestine Shepherd holds the Guinness World Record for being the Oldest Female Bodybuilder at age 81. Shepherd first got the idea to start bodybuilding from her sister when they were both 56 both unfit and overweight. Her sister encouraged before she died of cancer that Ernestine should keep going for both of them, to enjoy the competitive side of fitness and continue to workout together (in spirit).
Keith Hegge 94 Pilot and only started at 89
At 87 years of age Keith’s sons asked what he wanted for his birthday. He replied a “flight simulator” so he could fly on the computer. So his sons bought him a computer and flight simulator. At 89 years of age his sons asked what he wanted for his birthday he requested to go on a “Joy ride” in a small plane. This joy ride ignited a passion in him to learn to fly. He had obstacles, he walked with a cane and had to have special hearing aides made so he could hear. Keith at the age of 89 earned his wings. I personally met Keith at the age of 94 and this photo is what I top flying with Keith from Bankstown Airport over past Barrenjoey Lighthouse for another trip in the plane. Was Keith wealthy, no he came from a working class background back decided that before he transitions from this world he was going to do something that he loved. And that is flying!
Greta Pontarelly 61 Pole Dancer
Pole artist Greta Pontarelli inspires us with her strength, artistry and can-do attitude in the unlikely art of pole dancing, which is dominated by younger women. “We all get challenged by new things or be intimidated by them, thinking, ‘Oh, I couldn’t do that.’ … The biggest fear that I have is not doing something that was meaningful when I’m old,” she says.
78-Year-Old Skateboarder Lloyd Kahn Decided That The Time Had Come For Him To Try Skateboarding At 65.
102-Year-Old Cyclist Robert Marchand
72-Year-Old Ruth Flowers Decided To Become A Club Dj At 68
70-Year-Old Annette Larkins Looks Like She Just Turned 40 Thanks To Raw Vegan Diet
Doris Long, 100, Took Up Industrial Climbing When She Was 85
87-Year-Old Ice Skater Yvonne Dowlen
Duan Tzinfu, 73, Tzinfu Performs Moves That Are So Complex That Even Young Athletes Can’t Compete.
70-Year-Old Dr. Jeffrey Life Started To Take Fitness Pretty Seriously At The Age Of 60
96-Year-Old Mountain Skier Alexander Rozental
88-Year-Old Bodybuilder Jim Morris Became A Vegetarian When He Was 50 And A Vegan 15 Years Later
Lynn Ruth Miller, 80, Stand Up Comedian, Started Doing Stand-up Comedy At 70
61-Year-Old Cindy Joseph Is Active In Physical Fitness, Works As A Photo Model, And Runs A Popular Video Blog
Madonna Buder, 83, A Marathon Runner And A Nun
Pat And Alicia Moorhead, 81 And 66-Year-Old Skydivers
Women Aikido Group In Novosibirsk. Youngest Member Is 55 Years Old, The Oldest – 75
Valentin Badich, 75, Dances The Boogie-Woogie, Rockabilly Etc.
Jacqueline Murdock Became A Model Being 82 Years Old
67 Year Old Lynda Fox Started Riding Horses 5 Years Ago And Now Competes In Dressage
This 70 Year Travels Around The Globe Photographing Everywhere He Goes Each Year For Fun And To Help People Become More Creative
This 80+ Couple Shares Relationship Wisdom For Troubled Couples
Manoel De Oliveira (106 Yrs) The Oldest Active Film Director In The World
Ann M. At 61, Started Riding Sport Bikes At Age 57; Including The Odd Track Day.
Julia Vona Took Up Kayaking At Age 68.
Ida Keeling: sprinter, 104, Harlem, New York
I was 67 when I started running. I had lost my two sons to drug-related violence – in 1978 and then in 1981. It was so quick. They were stabbed up or shot up or whatever they did to them. Too quick. No warning. It just broke me. I was very depressed.
My daughter Cheryl came by one day and saw I was down in the dumps. That isn’t usually who I am. She wanted to take me out for a mini run and since I was already so down I said: “All right, go ahead.” And it did good for me. It kept me moving. I could feel myself getting stronger and feeling more free. It helped me immensely. And I’m still running now.
Fauja Singh: marathon runner, 108, Redbridge
I was born in a village in Punjab in India in 1911. My memories are of a simple life without the stresses that people all over the world seem to have nowadays. I came from a farming family, and we learned to live within our means after working hard and honestly. We remembered God and were thankful to him. We shared with others less fortunate than ourselves. This is in keeping with the three tenets of my Sikh religion.
I had a happy childhood and I was nurtured because I was weak. I couldn’t walk until l was five. I wanted to be sporty, but until then, I lacked the strength. But I enjoyed watching all the simple sporting activities that were prevalent in the rural environment at the time. And I remember the joy all around me when I became strong enough to be able to walk.
People who set themselves to changing the world and making the most of their talents are not different than you — they just cancel ordinary thoughts. Extraordinary living starts with a simple shift in mindset.
Every person on Earth has thoughts like these, I’m not good enough, or I’ll never make it, or I can’t do it. But people who behave in extraordinary ways separate themselves by the wholesale rejection of negative thinking.
When negative thought comes in…Bam! They call it out as disempowering BS and revert to extraordinary thinking.
Thoughts like, I can, and Life is good, and I am extraordinary and capable of accomplishing whatever I set my mind to, become normal if you initiate phase one of extraordinary.
You can force yourself into the most useful and extraordinary thoughts possible by making a morning routine of these mantras, meditations, building healthy habits and repeating over and over again until the change becomes part of your life.
Sean and I urge you all, stop being ordinary go out and become extraordinary!