Sometimes, on rare occasions, I’ll refer you to another jeff noel blog post. Usually because I’m pressed for time and take a rare shortcut, instead of writing something new.
Well, today, I’d like to redirect you please, but not because I’m pressed for time, but because I think today’s two posts at www.junglejeff.net are important and relevant to Mid Life Celebration.
Have a great mid-life day. Do something great. And, oh yeah, carpe diem, jeff noel
Because who am I to think that I could rally enough Baby Boomer men to help make the world a better place?
There’s roughly 80 million Baby Boomers Let’s say half are men, that’s 40 million.
Let’s suppose, since 97% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 3% of the population, there’s an assumption in my mind that says 3% in any category are “movers and shakers”.
Three percent of 40 Mil is 1.2 Million Baby Boomer men who are predisposed to be excellent.
Initially, I’d like to challenge these 1.2 million men, as they start to retire and have, theoretically, more disposable money and certainly more disposable time, to do something great.
To turn off the television, get up of their butts and “do something great“!
The “doing something great” definition encompasses this:
As simple as mending an important Family relationship
Help raise enough money to find a cure for an incurable disease
Or, anything in between the first two suggestions
The world needs a ton of help. Elder men ought to assume enough responsibility to proactively start the momentum for positive change.
If we’re lucky, these Baby Boomer men will create a ripple effect.
And then, Baby Boomer women, Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials and on down to elementary schools will be predisposed – to plants seeds of social, spiritual, physical, emotional and financial responsibility.
As President Obama has said, “We can. We Will. IF, we all work together”.
Simply put, it’s a process for people, especially those in mid-life, to:
Re – think
Re – prioritize
Re – commit
Profoundly simple. Simply profound.
If I have to explain this to you, you are not ready for it.
But I’ll make a deal with you. If you’re not yet ready, and you continue to read this blog, I’ll give it my very best effort to intrigue you and challenge you, to want to have a mid-life celebration.
Oh-tay-pankie?
Carpe diem, jeff noel
PS. My Mid-Life Celebration could quite possibly be one of the top five best things that’s ever happened to me.
Rejoice at mid life? In the middle of a mid-life crisis? Are you kidding me? Nope. But it ain’t easy. We have to train ourselves to rejoice.
How do you train yourself to rejoice during a mid-life crisis? Couple ways.
One of my favorites is to read good thoughts, daily, like this one:
“Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double”. — Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Simple. Have someone be part of your life, and be part of someone else’s life.
This also isn’t easy, especially as we age, and even more so as we pass mid-life into late-life.
Recently, an extraordinarily insightful woman I get to work with occasionally, commented, “I’m no longer the most important person in any body’s life”.
Not in any one’s life? How can that be?
It will probably happen to all of us, if we get the privilege to live long enough.
I like to look ahead and start planning for things I haven’t yet seen, nor can yet comprehend.
Mid-Life is part of our journey, if we are lucky to make it that far. It seemed to me that I shouldn’t waste the gift of middle age.
While it’s impossible to predict the future. There is one thing I do predict, that mid-life rejoicing will help me more than mid-life complaining.
You buy that? I do. In fact, I’ll take two, please. Carpe diem, jeff noel
I’m committed to figuring out these four simple concepts, now that I’m into mid-life.
There came a certain mid-life crisis moment, not sure when, that I realized I better start living and quit waiting.
Didn’t want to be guilty of going through the motions, and then finding myself on my deathbed, saying, “I should have”. Or, “I would have”. Or even, “I could have”.
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture. In ten days, one year will have passed since Randy left our earthly world for his next journey, perhaps a heavenly world.
We will probably start to see news media marking this anniversary. In advance of this, I’d like to share his original You Tube Last Lecture.
Randy Pausch’s story inspired me, and I’m an already inspired kind of guy. And not only me, but millions of others, to recapture some excitement, and commitment, to our childhood dreams.
What did it for me was his attitude towards awful news – “You have three to six months to live”.
Whether you are unfamiliar with his story, or know it well, I challenge you to view The Last Lecture this weekend.
We can all be thankful he gave such an inspiring Last Lecture, although I’m sorry he had to.
Living with regret must be a painful exit from this world. Do something, now, while you still can. Follow a childhood dream to completion. Carpe diem, jeff noel
