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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Incredibly lofty doesn’t mean totally impossible.
The secret reality is that unless a goal has the magic to stir our soul – as in impossible – we will not dedicate ourselves to the effort required to conquer our impossible.
Live your life so that if anyone ever said anything bad about you, no one would believe it.
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We miss people who leave earth too soon. We miss those who lived long and well too.
Today is just another ordinary day isn’t it?
Wake up. Race through the day attending to our busy lives.
And then scramble to organize a decent dinner together.
And so it goes.
Days turn into months and rather insidiously, years.
When is the right time to exit from the fast lane?
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The car arrived at 4:00am to take the busy executive to the Orlando airport. Ten days in California on business.
Wondering if this is where she thought she’d be in life.
Wondering if it was the hope all along or was it simply serendipity?
Wondering how executives define themselves when they stop being in charge. You know, retire.
Wondering how any of us will define ourselves, after, you know, we retire.
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(photo: Fancy dining room at Lake Lure Inn in North Carolina)
Mental hunger.
Is it the yearning for a better, more consistent attitude?
Is it the wish for less worry?
Yearning and wishing are natural.
So is hunger.
Is it selfish to feed ourselves first?
Isn’t it everyone’s wish to eliminate hunger from the world?
When the proverbial oxygen masks fall, put yours on first – for all the obvious reasons.
You have come far when you can not remember the last time you complained abut something.
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(photo above: two notes… the date and time on the bottom red line (9/11 5:27am) …and Detroit departure time of 7:07am on the very top.)
(photo: PDX Delta Sky Club view courtesy of a colleague with Diamond status)
Flying home from Portland, Oregon yesterday, September 11, there was a heightened awareness of change.
Not from the horrific tragedy in 2001.
Rather the keen sense of the drastic, impending change brought on by another dramatic moment in the near future.
Retirement.
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