The key to both a prosperous career during your 40s and up surviving being let go from a career position in your 40s and up, is the same one thing–what your mind tells you. This is basic information that many people may not choose to accept as factual and honest due to deeply-held beliefs and values. But, don’t you be one of them.

Simply put: The ways in which you visualize your reality changes your reality for you. If you think you are a failure, thinking that way guarantees that you will be a failure. If you see yourself as someone who is a victim of other people’s actions against you, visualizing your life as reacting to bad things that happen to you, that is the wrong way for you.

In contrast, if you are someone (regardless of your age) who looks at life and sees new challenges and new opportunities as desirable, you will outdistance others around who. One truth in life is that if you ever stop learning new things, or stop thinking in different ways from how you thought in your past, or stop wanting to change in your life, what a mess you will have created for yourself and for your loved ones!

Here is what I would urge anyone who is seeking a career change in their years at and after age 40 (whether or not you wanted such a career change): Go after a career that involves the use of the Internet. You will find such a career path to be challenging, exciting and fulfilling because this career choice demands that you learn new things, plus think in different ways from how you thought in your past, and effects tangible changes in your life. I know these things because I have experienced these things personally and I am writing truthfully here about what I have experienced.