What you need to be able to do is open yourself up to evaluate your weaknesses as a person, understand them and work on them. One of the hardest things is always to acknowledge the weaknesses, but that is what makes a champion. Work on your weaknesses and the things that will make you improve. It’s easy to do the things you like training on, try to work on the weaknesses to make them strengths. 
I have some great mentors and surrounded myself with some amazing, positive people who strive to improve and for success, these are keys for your development as an athlete, surround yourself with better athletes, successful people that will push you in every way to develop and improve because you always can. I have been fortunate to have one great sponsor at the moment for my supplementation (Nutrition Warehouse), who have great stores and I am very lucky to have a great friendship now with a store manager Ali Rostami who is also a qualified dietitian. He has been amazing with his advice and timing my diet to maximize the benefits with my training to present the best package possible on stage.
Age is not a barrier, it is an excuse that people can use as to why they don’t want to try to improve. You can always improve if you put your mind towards success. I can lift weights now that I could not years ago because I look at them as a challenge, not as something that looks too heavy. The mind is the most powerful tool that you have. It breaks through the barriers if you allow it and if you have absolute belief in yourself and your journey to success, you will achieve it.
