Why your life improves after 50.

[@Mr_Blacksmith]

I’m 28, my wife and I have been married 5 years and have a 2 year old daughter. I was brought to this channel by your photography. I stayed for your nuggets of wisdom. Thanks so much for sharing your perspective.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thank you, mate - I’m most grateful. I have two daughters, both young adults, now, running their own businesses. I remember their toddler years like it was yesterday. There’s nothing sweeter or more innocent than your own little angel. Enjoy every moment.

[@craigpiferphotography]

Well, I certainly hope that you're right. I just hit level 50 earlier this month. My kids were already telling me that I'm old, now there's no stopping them.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Lol - mine, too! I remember thinking my folks were old in their early 40s. They’re now in their 80s and still full of energy!

[@domhall626]

53 years old, literally just bought tickets to Porsche museum in Stuttgart, will also hit BMW & Mercedes. Unthinkable with kids 20 years ago. Already planning a hike in Japan next year. I have some freedom, some income and still some solid health. Absolutely kicking some life goals

[@peterfritzphoto]

Beautifully put, Dom. Love it. 👍

[@rtyomkv]

Turned 20 couple months ago. This was so pleasing to watch. Love your channel

[@TLM823]

Thank you, Peter for your willingness to share your best with all of us! Although my 50’s were extremely difficult for many reasons the “10 Reasons” definitely aided me during that decade. I’m turning 71 this December and am enjoying these Top 10. I think this is life for most- by learning how to go through your valleys is what makes your mountain tops all the more enjoyable. Cheers!

[@peterfritzphoto]

Very well put. And thank you for the kind words, Tom. My dad is 87, and still very active, so more power to you. 👍

[@wichersham]

I’m 47 now. This video gives me so much hope going forward.

[@peterfritzphoto]

I’m glad to hear that. I’m now 56, and life has improved markedly since my late 40’s. 👍

[@dennismwallentin296]

I must be very happy being 62 years old now 😊 no wife, no money, no fast car, no luxury in my daily life. But I am pleased because whenever my health allow it I pick up my camera and explore life through the lenses 🙂 From my point of view life can be good in any age. But the most important aspect is that we live here and now and to have friendly relationships. What the future holds we are luckily unaware of.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Well said, Dennis!

[@jeremyhoffmann2909]

Great video & truth! Turning 59 soon I believe that around 50 -ish these insights came to me as well... and as a wise man once said "We all have two lives.The second one begins when we realize we only have one". Time is our greatest gift, we need to spend it wisely! 😊

[@peterfritzphoto]

Such a profound statement. Thanks for watching, Jeremy. 👍

[@s10lucky]

Fantastic. So true, especially the last. ‘No’ is such a powerful word.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Steve.

[@TheWhooah]

You deserve to be a huge channel Peter. Loved this.

[@peterfritzphoto]

That’s very generous - thank you.

[@iamnew7545]

I’m turning 40 soon and it feels good to have realised/achieved many of these things already. For me personally, having kids made the difference.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Good on you! 👍

[@MatthewRaifman]

I’m in the same boat, my friend… Almost 40 with two kids.

[@GeorgeLoch]

At 55, I can relate to all your observations. I mostly resonate with a feeling of purpose and wanting to contribute. I see creativity as a great way to accomplish that. Also, the biggest surprise to me is that in my head, I am just as young as I have ever been and it's only my thoughts and my lifestyle that hold me back. This is why I still ride dirt bikes, MTBs, hike, explore, and try new things. Act the age you want to be :)

[@peterfritzphoto]

Good on you, George! My dad is 87. He still rides a motorbike, still chops firewood in the mountains, and still laughs like a 12-year-old when he farts. I want to be like my dad until I die. 😄

[@birds_eye_biker]

This video should be a viral sensation 👏👏👏

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thank you!

[@toluwole]

Spot on. Turning 50 lined up with the pandemic as well as losses of a dear friend and a couple of extended family members. Suddenly trips I was content to wait until my 60s got moved up and taken. So glad I did. Thank you for this. Well executed.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Good on you for taking action. And thanks for the kind words.

[@garysuffolk1160]

Wow, spot on Peter, love your thoughts on life, well done.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Gary. 👍

[@PhotoByPope]

You are absolutely spot on! I'll be 52 in February and I've been both struggling with and embracing pretty much everything you say. I've been struggling with the realization that half my years are behind me (yes, I'm foolishly optimistic to plan on living to 100) but your thoughts have given me a different way of looking at things. Rather than dwelling on the years I didn't really live life to its fullest you've helped remind me that those years have shaped me into the person I am and have helped me realize what IS important and how I want to live my second half of my time on earth. Thank you for sharing this gift!

[@peterfritzphoto]

Good on you, Patrick. If you take away your first 18 years, you’ve only had 33 adult years so far. Plenty of wonderful living ahead! 😉👍

[@arndtbc]

I'm 53 and your spot on. This is one of the best videos I've seen lately on KZbin, more of this!

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thank you, Brian. You just made my morning.

[@TilFurtherNotice]

Hi Peter! How did you know I needed this?! 😉. Thank you- your 50 yr old friend from the other side who’s stopped counting her chins years ago 🤣

[@peterfritzphoto]

Haha!! Thanks, Tammy! Damn, it's been ages since I visited. How are you and Scott doing in your zero-wheel abode?

[@TilFurtherNotice]

We are ready to be done with projects’ 😂.

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@TilFurtherNotice LOL. I have to swing by and see what you've been doing.

[@terminatedphil]

This gives me hope for the future, thank you.

[@marcosvaldes8910]

I just turned 50 last week. I feel that my kids are developing to be responsible, and productive members of society. I’m also seeing how people that matter, enter my life and people that don’t, leave. Financially, I see my investments compounding. I feel that I can take the foot off the gas a bit when it comes to saving and have some fun. I ended up buying that Cayman S last week because of your advice from a previous video. I’m totally understanding the meaning of this video. I don’t have everything figured out but life experiences have taught me some things. Thanks for verbalizing it so well.

[@peterfritzphoto]

That's wonderful, Marcus - congratulations! When do you take delivery? Thanks for the kind words, too. 🙂

[@marcosvaldes8910]

@@peterfritzphoto Thank you! I took delivery of it last week. 2014 Cayman S in Agate Grey with a Pebble Grey interior. It’s so much fun to drive.

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@marcosvaldes8910 Very classy. Good for you, Marcos! Happy driving. 👍

[@EdmundPelgen]

Hey Peter I found your channel via your mx5 video. 53 year old and I just bought the 94 Laguna Blue NA that I sold stupidly in the late 90s. I also thought I’d come here and make an insightful comment about how much your points resonated with me only to find the comments were already filled with fellow old buggers who had already said the same. A new subscriber looking forward to seeing more. Cheers Ed

[@peterfritzphoto]

LOL - thank you, Edmund! I'd love to get a mint NA again myself - I'd never sell it!

[@ScottymanPhoto]

Well, if I were close to 50, I would agree with almost everything you said. Honestly, I’d like to be in my 20s again, but with the brains I have now. Incredible presentation, my friend! Good to hear from you. Take care!

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Michael! How old are you? You sure as hell don't look any older than me! 🙂

[@ScottymanPhoto]

I'm only 35 😉@@peterfritzphoto

[@kenfife6257]

Peter your videos get better and more professional episode by episode. Your presentation skills now have taken your work to another level. I'm so impressed. Ken

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Ken! I’m just happy you’ve finally posted a comment. 😄

[@BruceJobling]

Peter. Again a corker of a video ‘out look to life’. Cheers for sharing and putting them down so well and concise. Will forward the video to my nearest & dearest. Bruce

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Bruce. I’m grateful. 👍

[@doughunwick766]

at 83 yrs I still have the drive to find that special image be it l/scape ,bird or wildlife or any thing ;drive to continue doing better is as good a succes to your personal fulfilment as we can hope for ; like your little pep talks cheers

[@peterfritzphoto]

Good on you, Doug. And I completely agree - success is progress, pure and simple. 👍

[@anastassiosperakis2869]

I turned 70 in July 2023. At some point, most people should worry much more about their health than about their wealth, even if they wish they were richer. Time is all-important and many people waste it as if it has no value. But actually, time is NOT money, it is much more valuable than money. Because you may lose some $ today, but you can always make m any times that tomorrow, while time lost is not regained.

[@Chris-NZ]

Hi Peter good list 👍. I’m a year off 70 which in my mind seems mad and unbelievable as I don’t have kids which tend to mark the passage of time. There is one thing I’d like to add and that’s “a feeling of being very comfortable in my own skin” , not caring what others think about me, knowing what is important and just letting the sea of little things wash over me. My 50’s were pretty good except for the death (car crash) of my best mate of 40 years in the NZ family Toyota not the Porsche Boxster he owned back in Oz , if he’d gone over a cliff in flames at 200k I think I could have forgiven him. I think my favourite age was 26 , girls , alcohol, sailing, cars and no responisbiltes 😀!!!

[@peterfritzphoto]

Wonderful insights, mate. You're so right about your additional point. I actually talked about that in the car, but cut it for brevity. Not caring what others think of us is a real superpower. I haven't lost anyone close to me yet, but I find myself thinking about it more and more these days, and I dread it. Unless, of course, they fly off a cliff at 200 with their hair on fire. I reckon I could live with that. My twenties were a tantilising cocktail of independence, roadtrips, booze, and plenty of sex with my gorgeous Italian girlfriend. But I was always piss-poor and worried about my future. On balance, I think my 20's and 50's get equal billing! 🙂

[@Chris-NZ]

I can relate to the poverty in my 20’s, in fact I went to Sydney to study (on the company) for six months in ‘80 and came back poorer than I went, decided it had to change, met wife 1 of 3 (!) got a house god they were so cheap back then etc etc and all that stuff in between that I know you can relate to 😀

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@Chris-NZ Yes, mate - I relate to all of that!!

[@chriscummins4282]

Thanks for the excellent video with the wisdom, and, as an aside the nice images of the forest etc. great …….

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Chris. You're a huge encouragement.

[@chriscummins4282]

@@peterfritzphoto I’m part of the smallest viable audience and probably the 1000 true fan brigade .

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@chriscummins4282 Haha! We’ve read the same books.

[@amarkmanpeters]

Love your perspective. My 50’s were a time of re-directing my course and I did many of the things you mentioned. Getting your diet and health right is huge. I lost a year to colon cancer treatment and it was a huge wake up call. So much of the things and relationships we believe we need can be shed and you feel liberated once you do this. My kids are my primary focus as you lose them once they enter university. Love the perspective. Double down on all of your observations. Life is short and we should maximize the best living we can.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thank you, Mark - I really appreciate that extra push. I cut out alcohol about six months ago. Now I have to eliminate carbs. Somehow, that feels more difficult!

[@amarkmanpeters]

@@peterfritzphoto I hear you. But your single most valuable asset is your health. It’s worth it. You just must get this right. I cut out alcohol, television, toxic people, most social media. It’s difficult but simplicity is absolute heaven. At 66 I maybe have good energy for a decade? Time becomes very real in this context!

[@peterfritzphoto]

​@@amarkmanpeters I like the way you said that. Very nice. I think carbs and exercise are my last two hurdles. I already pulled the plug on TV back on May 1st, 2007. I left my toxic partner (and everyone like her) at around the same time, and I stopped using FB, Twitter, and Linkedin a couple of years ago. I sometimes post a few pics on Insta, but I go weeks without even looking (I actually hate it). So, carbs it is. And movement! Thanks, mate - I really do appreciate it.

[@craigbartschi4990]

Very sound advice Peter, I have certainly enjoyed your videos and have loved seeing the beautiful country you live in, Thanks for sharing

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Craig - much appreciated. All the best to you in 2024. 👍

[@georgepoulopoulos7217]

Brilliant advice, well said. Have come to the same realisation myself.

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@georgepoulopoulos7217 Thanks, George. 👍

[@peterviragphoto]

Awesome work mate. Thanks for sharing your perspective & little pieces if wisdom in this very well executed video. Finding purpose & balancing life are crucial for one’s contentment. Have a great weekend mate!😉

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Pete. I know you understand this stuff better than most. 👍

[@brettwooderson7442]

Another great video Peter. Love where you are going with this

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@brettwooderson7442 Many thanks, Brett.

[@blacker1000000]

You hit the nail on the head, a great video. Good work, my friend.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thank you.

[@damienbrady4325]

Awesome vid, will have to head over to Macedon (I'm in outer east melb).

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Damien. When you get to the general store on Mt Macedon Rd, head up through Alton Rd, then Clyde Track, and then left onto Cameron Drive up to the summit. It’s beautiful. I filmed most of the video amongst a stand of Redwoods just off Clyde Track.

[@martinoberg9247]

Well said mate 👍

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, Martin.

[@bunkermagnus]

Great video Peter, I agree with your points, I'm on my 53rd year and my youngest kid is 19 and has a job. I have put most of my effort into my kids, never really made any "career". I just have a decent job that keeps me going finacially and hope it will remain so into retirement.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Sounds to me like you’ve had your priorities right since the start. 👍

[@davidwelling8740]

Powerful video Peter. Thanks for posting.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, David.

[@TroySwezey]

Let us not forget the discounts at many merchants and the honor of joining the Silver Fox Squad.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Haha! True!

[@anastassiosperakis2869]

On a related topic. Somebody is concerned with the question, when does life really begin. First he goes to his pastor (he is rather religious, this chap) who tells him it begins at birth. Having an open mind, he also asks a catholic priest, who insists that life begins at conception. He cannot make up his mind, so to break the tie he asks his neighborhood rabbi, and the rabbi answers: "Life really begins when the kids are all grown and out of the house, and the dog is dead"

[@peterfritzphoto]

Haha!! Love it!

[@happyswissjoe]

I could not have said it better myself! So spot on! ❤

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks for that.

[@timshields8720]

I dont want to sound up myself but I do truly believe I nailed all that about 15 years ago (now 48) e.g. I could literally write a whole book about being able to say NO. However I've never understood the part about LEGACY ... to me we are all but grains of sand in an infinite time line. But hey - each to their own right?

[@peterfritzphoto]

Good for you, Tim. I got most of these right maybe 10 years ago - some of them earlier. I agree re legacy. Much of it is ego, or just the fear of death or irrelevance. I guess my point is, the only legacy I’ve sought in recent years is through my kids, and the time and attention I give to them. By comparison, the rest (a business, a medical cure, a great book, a name on a building) doesn’t rate.

[@timshields8720]

@@peterfritzphoto yeah I hear you bud. If I had children I'd probably think EXACTLY the same. Great video mate.

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@timshields8720 Thanks, matey.

[@scopeway]

Personally, when it comes to matters like this I'm reminded of John 11:26, which can help alleviate the pull of the temporal flow, if you believe it, and I understand it when people don't so I'm not trying to proselytise. Your view seems to me to be a step or two back from a purely Cartesian rationalism to a more holistic one.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thank you; I try.

[@adnanmansour8757]

Well said Peter, I couldn’t agree more. But I have to add that age is a state of mind, so long as you are healthy and adopt your approach to life anything over 50 is fulfilling and should be cherished. I am 75 years old, but have always been active and don’t waste any moment, because as you said you can buy anything with money, except time! Best wishes and keep posting your thoughts and wonderful images . Cheers Adnan

[@peterfritzphoto]

Many thanks, Adnan. 👍

[@anastassiosperakis2869]

You can buy time with money, and many wealthy people do it, instead of working around the house and the yard in various DIY jobs, they pay out of their ample savings somebody else to do it for them, and save the time it would take them to do it themselves, time they would not have otherwise.

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@anastassiosperakis2869 Absolutely. I’ve never had a problem with paying someone to mow the lawn, clean the house, and wash the cars, as it frees my time to be with my family, take photos, and make videos. You look very fit and young, Adnan.

[@WynterLantyrn]

Brilliant! (get rid of the carbs and the weight will drop off really fast! ;-)

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks a lot, Chris. I think I’ll have to. Wish I didn’t love bread. Or pasta. Dammit.

[@anastassiosperakis2869]

there is no magic formula. I can gain weight with the healthiest of foods (unsalted nuts) even tho I rarely eat carbs. It is a simple input-output problem, every calorie eaten counts, and every calorie spent doing sports is deducted from them.

[@sebastianberes]

Where is the triple "like" button when you need it?

[@peterfritzphoto]

Haha! Thanks, Sebastian.

[@dieseldavey]

Hi Peter I had lost my link back to you lol that won't happen again 👍🏻👍🏻

[@peterfritzphoto]

Haha - thanks, Dave!

[@rafaelcordoba13]

How about poor people getting to their 50s? 😅 the financial part is scary when you don’t even own a home

[@peterfritzphoto]

I was completely broke less than 15 years ago (no assets, and $140k in debt). So, I went without, I worked my arse off, negotiated with the banks, and dug my way out. It was hard, but life is very different for me now. My dad lives a very simple but extremely fulfilling life on less than $20k p.a.

[@rafaelcordoba13]

@@peterfritzphoto thank you for taking the time to read and answer me 🙂 in the end it’s not all about money anyway and everything you said makes sense! I’m 39 yrs old now and I feel a lot better than when I was 29 🙃

[@mike.k]

Are You 50? 😬

[@peterfritzphoto]

55.

[@mike.k]

@@peterfritzphoto 😎👍🏻

[@EssexCountyPhoto]

No it does not.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Okay. Care to expand?

[@anastassiosperakis2869]

I assume he believes life does not get better after 50. For some people this is true. But what is also true is that as you get older, you give up the utterly unrealistic dreams you had at 18 and settle for much less but still substantial, and feel more satisfied, or content, or even happier than when you were young and fit and they voted you the most handsome man in a party when you were 22 (50 youngsters there, but only the women, about 25, voted)@@peterfritzphoto