When traditional retirement first emerged in Bismarck’s Germany, it represented prodigious social progress. At first, only a few workers made it past 70 to live out their last years on the state pension.

So much has changed since the Iron Chancellor instituted his reforms, not least life expectancy itself which in western countries is now about double compared with the 1890s.

Sadly, what hasn’t changed in over a century for so many of us is our Switched OFF, traditional retirement mindset that meekly accepts we stop living the moment we stop working.

Switched ON Living was born to fight against the dullness of traditional retirement. We’ll never accept that it’s GAME OVER once we’re aged over 50. We have decades ahead of us to live life at full throttle.

Our ambitions to learn, to grow, to experience, to enjoy, to love, to understand, to engage burn just as fiercely at 50-plus as they did when we we’re in our 20s or 30s.

But as they say in modern business management jargon, first we must get the mindset piece right.

And there’s no one better to help us frame our attitude than the mindset master, Dan Sullivan. Since starting as a business coach and mentor in 1974, Dan has become The Guru of Choice to generations of entrepreneurs.

The vast success of his Strategic Coach business is testament to his influence, and for Dan, it all starts with our mindset. While we may not want to become an entrepreneur, his three simple but powerful attitude resets – change is exciting, I’m always learning, I’m always growing – will help us whatever our Switched ON endeavor.

His final advice in this video, to seek out and join like-minded people who share our change, learning and growth mindsets, is the perfect call to action for us to embrace the Switched ON Community.

Dan calls these groups exponential communities, where we feed off the positivity of other members to nurture and nourish our own change, our own learning and our own growth.

And that sounds like the Switched ON Community to a ‘tee.’