What is the upside to thinking the worst case?

School winter break sign
When is our final Winter break going to come and will it be memorable?

 

What is the upside to thinking the worst case?

Is there one?

Could it allow us to experience something so fully that we can’t believe we haven’t lived like this sooner?

Do we sort of, unconsciously, think conditions will be better down the road, and then we can really live it up?

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How confident are we as we age on a scale of 1 – 10?

Mid Life Celebration the book
One pig built his house of stone – we all know the story.

 

The price, the source, the content, the format. Few things in life are so ridiculously underpriced and carry such a gentle and generous catalytic significance. Mid Life Celebration, the book, is one of them.

And few people will risk the misinterpretation of their boldness.

Why?

Who knows. Million reasons probably.

Someone said boldness has genius.

This challenges each one of us to respond with a yes or no.

And choosing not to decide is still a choice, a default no.

Seriously, we either say, “Hell yeah”, or we say no.

No?

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Two things Winter solstice and April Fool’s Day have in common

Four Seasons Resort at Disney World
Winter Solstice eve last night (Disney’s Four Seasons across the neighborhood lake)

 

Insight: In the crazy, busy, stressful days before Christmas, a significant phenomenon occurs mostly unnoticed, marking the passage of time and the beginning of Winter. Time waits for no one. We know this, but we rarely behave like we do.

Two things Winter Solstice and April Fool’s Day have in common:

  1. Nearly everyone is familiar but few consciously reflect on the significance.
  2. At this blog, the two fall within 24 hours of each other. (impossible?) (and, who cares?)

It’s December 21, 2013 and March 31, 2014 all at the same time at Mid Life Celebration. The first is the date this post is written, the second, the date it goes public.

Many of us aspire to be writers.

What holds most of us back is believing we have to conform to historical norms. Follow the recipe.

Tomorrow, April Fool’s Day (or is it December 22?), a Baby Boomer Fool began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs in a 100-day challenge to leave a trail for his young son (then 8).

If you want to be a writer, then write, uninhibited. And without fear.

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The two obvious obituaries we could write for ourselves

jeff noel's book Mid Life Celebration
Life by design or life by default… intentional or unintentional (very first Mid Life Celebration book)

 

Want to share this challenge with you. If we could write two obituaries, it would be these two:

  1. What it would read like if we made no changes in our life’s approach?
  2. What it would read like we actually did a bunch of the stuff we promised ourselves we would do?

And then after reading our two self-penned obituaries, which one makes us smile, feeling peaceful and contented?

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