Turning 40 is a big deal. I don’t remember turning 20, but turning 30 feels like it was just yesterday.

Anyone who has spent more than a minute with me knows that I’m young at heart. It’s difficult to know when I’m being serious because I love to laugh so much, and more importantly, make other people laugh too. My mission in life is simple: Enjoy Life.

Most guys turn 40 and then run out and get a sports car. I sold mine. Maybe it’s my way of simplifying my life. Who knows? But what I do know is, I’m not getting any younger. My good friend, Darren Field, and I rode our bikes from Solana Beach to Irvine. It was a 70-mile ride that took us a little more than four hours. Not a century (i.e., 100 miles), but proof “I still got it going on.”

I may not be able to peel off five-minute mile repeats, or run the 400 in under 65 seconds, but I’ve never let myself go. I still jog, take spin, do yoga, and remain very active.I encourage anyone reading my blog to never forget to keep moving, literally. It’s important to continually push both the body and the spirit. I wanted to run a marathon, so I did. I wanted to break 33 minutes for 10K, so I did that too. I wanted to start a company, and I did. I also wanted to turn 40, but look younger than anyone I graduated from high-school with. I believe I’ve done that too.

We all need goals, and then we need to sincerely pursue them. Seriously… start a bucket list (things you want to do before you hit the bottom of the bucket) and make it happen. It’s a cliche but life is short. We can’t go backwards in time.

I’d really be curious to hear from you on what you wanted to do. Maybe you thought you couldn’t but against the odds, you did. To me the harder something is to achieve, the greater the reward.

Make it happen!