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Geezer Goals / Compromising goals as a senior / When goals get derailed with aging / Goals at 90!

Today’s rant is really aimed at myself. I’ve come to a realization that’s clashing with a lifetime of habits. I’ve always been a goal-setter—measurable targets, detailed tracking, formal records of what I’ve accomplished. Some folks say I overdo it, but it’s worked well for me. But now I’m facing a challenge: how do you set goals that are truly motivating when, due to age and health, they have to be lower than what you used to achieve? Frankly, lower goals don’t inspire me. They remind me that I’m not the guy I once was. THEY ARE NOT MOTIVATING. THEY ARE DEMOTIVATING Setting lower goals feels a bit like I’m shooting an arrow at the side of a barn and then drawing a target around it so I get a bullseye. It’s tempting to throw in the towel—to say, “Well, if I can’t do it like I used to, maybe I shouldn’t do it at all.” But that’s a big mistake. We just need to redefine what achievement looks like. That means learning how to set what I call Geezer Goals. And yes, that involves compromise. But you know what? That’s okay. Take the “Six-Minute Walk Test” for example. It’s a common one for folks like me who live with breathing disorders. You walk a measured path for six minutes and record the distance. Simple. I created my own version of this at home. For the last few years, I’ve done it almost daily—and at first, my results were close to what I got at the hospital. But over time, those numbers began to drop. Eventually, I started skipping the walk altogether. It wasn’t fun anymore. The numbers were going the wrong way, and that was discouraging. And then it hit me. I was eliminating an important part of my health regimen. 6 minutes is not a long walk…but every step matters when you have COPD. In my zeal for records, I was giving up an important part of my exercise program. Solution? stop recording the number of steps on my Fitness Chart, just make an X when I do it. No judgment, no comparison. Doing it was what mattered—not the distance. As the great fitness philosopher Woody Allen once said, “80% of success is just showing up.” Still, I needed something to counter the creeping feeling of failure that came with not being able to do what I once could. So I invented a new metric: 90RR. It stands for “90 (my age) Realistic Reality.” I’ll admit—it’s a little silly, maybe even gimmicky. But it’s memorable. It reminds me of something important: this is my new normal. I may not like that phrase, but it’s the truth. 90RR helps me shift the comparison. Not against the Glenn of the past—but against the Glenn of today, And if I’m lucky enough to be here a year from now, I’ll probably look back and think, “Wow, I wish I could still do what I was doing then.” And that reminds that I must do all I possibly can to fully utilize today. I can’t measure up to the Glenn of old…because… as Chad and Jeremy a singing duo act from the British Invasion of the 6os sang That was yesterday and yesterdy’s gone. Well I can’t end with a lousy singing of a beatuful song. So let me summarize. Aging doesn’t mean giving up on goals. It means redefining them. It’s not about chasing yesterday’s numbers. Progress might look different now, but doing what you can, when you can, still matters. The real bullseye now isn’t perfection, but persistence. Keep showing up. Keep putting that "X" on the chart.