{"id":1182,"date":"2016-04-12T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2016-04-12T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T22:57:11","slug":"age-is-not-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/age-is-not-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Age is not the Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stD9RycSXiU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I like the message that age in itself is not a barrier. No one knows how long we have to live (actually, not potentially) at any age, what matters is being fully ourselves in the present; for some this may mean throwing ourselves into entrepreneurship, for others it&#8217;s creativity or learning or adventure or whatever launches your boat, maybe all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s harder when we&#8217;re older because (usually) there is less physical energy and health, sometimes it&#8217;s easier because of the experience and resources we&#8217;ve accumulated. In any case are where we are and it&#8217;s the only place we can move from.<\/p>\n<p>Being an entrepreneur doesn&#8217;t do it for me even though I&#8217;ve registered a company, but this evening I attended an Aikido class, on Wednesday evening I&#8217;m at a Tai Chi Chi class and on Thursday evening a Wing Chun class. It&#8217;s painful but it&#8217;s part of a path I&#8217;m drawn to and the pull to do it has become more powerful, and more of an expression of my being, than the resistance to doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the message that age in itself is not a barrier. No one knows how long we have to live (actually, not potentially) at any age, what matters is being fully ourselves in the present; for some this may mean throwing ourselves into entrepreneurship, for others it&#8217;s creativity or learning or adventure or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/age-is-not-the-issue\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,6,106,57,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}