I remember my wake up call. I was in my office at the time talking with another guy about Rickey Henderson. Dude had met him on a flight, said he had a nice convo with him, and that he still looked ripped even though he was in his mid-40's. I said, "I wanna look that good when I'm his age," and the other guy, who was a few years older than me, said "yeah, I wanna look that good right NOW, but I don't."
That's when it hit me, hard, that even as a 30 year old I was not as ripped as Rickey Henderson and never would be.