ANOTHER Argument AGAINST one of my BIGGEST Pet Peeves

I've spoke about this often and will continue to do so, as it INCREASINGLY makes me grind my teeth:

"It sucks getting old"

"It's just old age"

"I guess I'm too old"

THAT mindset, THAT approach to your every day lifestyle and all the "I can'ts" that you say to yourself internally and out loud - THEY are HOLDING YOU BACK from living a better quality life. PERIOD. I increasingly become HYPER-AWARE and get my guard up around people who have this mentality. I try to put my energy into spending LESS time with people with THAT mentality, and MORE time with people who LOVE LIFE and LIVE IT with WAY LESS internal barriers like this.

With that, I wanted to share a story posted by "Canadian History Ehx" about, Olga Kotelko. Once again, here's a story that makes me want to say to ALL those folks who believe the previously mentioned phrases; "Tell your belief to this amazing woman!". People like Olga Kotelko are the EXAMPLE of how our MINDSET can ELEVATE US or HOLD US BACK.

Olga Kotelko may be the greatest athlete Canada has ever produced.

She held 30 world records and won over 750 gold medals.

What is most incredible, is she did it all after the age of 70.

This is the story of a legendary athlete!

Olga Kotelko was born on March 2, 1919 in Smuts, Saskatchewan. When she was 22, she graduated from Saskatoon Normal School and taught at a one-room school near Vonda, Saskatchewan.

After her marriage broke up, she raised her two children.

After she retired in 1984, she took up playing softball. When she gave up her position to a 55-year-old, she started in track and field. She chose that because she had developed her running and throwing skills in softball.

In 1999 at the World Association of Veteran Athletes World Championships, she broke two world records and won six gold medals. When she was 90, she won the hammer throw with a 5.64 metre throw. She also won the 100 metre race with a time of 23.95 seconds.

She carried the Olympic torch in 2010.

That year, she held 23 world records. She was also the world's oldest long jump competitor.

Competing in her 90s, she often exceeded the performance of athletes 20 years younger than her.

Due to her athletic abilities, she was studied by doctors at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. It was found that at the age of 91, her muscle fibers were lacking in the mitochondrial decay that was expected in people over 65.

By the time she had reached her mid-90s, she had won over 750 gold medals in her age category and held over 30 world records.

She held every track and field world record she attempted in her age group.

In the spring of 2014, she competed in three events, in the rain, at the Langley Pacific Invitational in Langley, BC.

One week later on June 24, 2014, she died at the age of 95 from an intracranial hemorrhage.

Olga outlived her eldest daughter and all of her 10 siblings. She was survived by her daughter Lynda and two grandchildren.

She was inducted into the Canadian Masters Athletic Hall of Fame.