Each seven-year cycle represents one life cycle, redefining our concept of time
Many people start feeling anxious in middle age and fearful in old age. They feel that time is running out, that "this life is all there is." Real age becomes a cold countdown, making people lose drive and hope. I used to feel this way—watching calendar pages turn, feeling like life was being deducted bit by bit.
Until I realized: The problem isn't that there's too little time, but that the way we count time is wrong.
So I divided my life into twelve lives. From now on, each life is 7 years, my entire existence equals 12 strategic cycles, totaling 12.7 years old. In this system, I'm currently only 5.1 years old. My task isn't "middle-age maintenance" but "second youth." I still have seven more lives to learn, create, accumulate, and breakthrough.
• Traditional thinking: Using real age to benchmark social stages → naturally associating with "limited remaining time" → amplifying anxiety
• Twelve Lives Model: Dividing life into 12 segments, each as a new "life unit" → currently only lived to 5.1 years old → automatically triggering psychological cues of "still many possibilities"
• No longer comparing with peers by real age, nor bound by social labels of "what should or shouldn't be done"
• Real age tells you "you're running out," life age tells you "you're just beginning"
The core of age anxiety lies in the sense of "remaining" rather than "total amount." Through the 12-life model, we double (or even infinite) the total time, making the brain measure itself by "growth journey" rather than "countdown."
Real age might make you feel like you've "lived most of your life," while life age makes you realize "I still have seven or eight lives to live." This extension isn't fictional—it truly rebuilds your perception of time.
• You're no longer a "middle-aged person" but a "5.1-year-old new life form"
• This "renaming" isn't just psychological comfort—it directly changes behavioral decisions (psychology calls this "framing effect")
• Each life is a rebirth: role refresh, goal reset, resource reallocation
• Baggage, failures, and regrets from previous lives can all be cleared
Planning decades at once is too abstract and easily loses focus. Reducing battles to 7-year cycles allows both long-term vision and current battlefield focus.
Each life has independent mission and upgrade paths. Regardless of previous stage results, you always have the next stage to turn things around.
The essence of the Twelve Lives Model is changing life from "finite countdown" to "infinite rebirth." When you change how you calculate time, you change the trajectory of your destiny. This is why I divide life into twelve lives. It keeps me living in the state of someone reborn, not in the fear of someone counting down.
"I am a warrior who has been reborn multiple times, not a traveler heading toward the end."
The first four lives were almost wasted
Decided to awaken in 2025, redefining life
Critical turning point of awakening and revival. Starting from 2025, rebuilding physical system, cognitive system, emotional system, and action system
The next eight lives are awakening and revival
I don't define myself by real age; I use life age as my life's clock. I'm only 5.1 years old. My total lifespan is 12.7 years, and I've only completed one-third. Seven more lives await my exploration, creation, and conquest.
I divide my life into 12 "life cycles." This division brings not "self-comfort" but strategic clarity + emotional stability + phased action. None of this is "desperate effort like a lifeline," but strategic, rhythmic, cyclical version upgrades.
The Twelve Lives Model is my second chance at life.
The first four lives were chaotic and ignorant: no reading, no learning, no thinking, perfunctory work, unbalanced life, multiple abnormal health indicators. The next eight lives are awakening and revival. Starting from 2025, I rebuild my physical system, cognitive system, emotional system, and action system.
I replan myself:
I don't worry about not earning a million now because I know this is only the task of the fifth life. I don't fear aging and retirement because I've already planned a "freelance life" for the eighth and ninth lives.
"Seven years" gives me a chance to restart:
What's truly scary isn't getting old, but giving up growth. The truly strong aren't those who never make mistakes, but those who can regularly clear their life systems and restart version updates.
My life isn't a single line from birth to aging, but twelve rebirths, twelve battles. Each life is a complete strategic deployment and identity reshaping: every seven years, I will launch a "brand new version" of myself.
I refuse to be bound by any "age anxiety" or "life stereotyping theory." I refuse to see life as a gradually depleting countdown. I refuse to plan the future with the mindset of "how many years can I last."
From this moment, I will view myself with the eyes of someone reborn:
These are my military rules:
I will use health as foundation, learning as engine, wealth as shield, spirit as lighthouse. Each life, I will complete an upgrade, a breakthrough, making myself stronger, freer, and closer to ultimate form than the previous life.
My life is not just about living, but about transforming every seven years. My life is never calculated by "endpoints" but measured by the starting point of the next rebirth. No matter which life I reach, I will stand on life's battlefield as an explorer, creator, and warrior.
I am a warrior who has been reborn multiple times, not a traveler heading toward the end.
"Lifelong learning, daily progress. I am a warrior who has been reborn multiple times, not a traveler heading toward the end."—— Zero · Twelve Lives Awakening Life
Dividing life into 12 clear stages, each with clear goals and priorities, avoiding aimless living.
Not anxious about not earning a million now because I know this is only the task of the fifth life. Each stage has its meaning.
Breaking long-term goals into staged tasks, upgrading every 7 years, continuous evolution rather than passive acceptance.
Can restart every 7 years; past mistakes won't define the future. True strength lies in regularly clearing and restarting.
Planning for 100 years allows us to view the present with a longer perspective, avoiding short-sightedness and impatience.
What's truly scary isn't getting old, but giving up growth. Each life is a new opportunity for growth.
Based on age, calculation method: age ÷ 7, round up. Or divide according to various functional periods of the first half of life.
Review previous lives, summarize keywords, major achievements and regrets of each stage, providing experience for the current life.
Set clear goals for the current life, including specific objectives in health, career, family, learning, and other dimensions.
Set visions and rough plans for future lives, but still focus on executing the current life.
Review progress annually, conduct systematic version upgrades and replanning every 7 years.
If you've also been trapped, tired, and regretful, but refuse to sink into despair, then welcome to join this awakening battle.
Your life is not just one lifetime. Every seven years, you can start over.