Blog – Page 760 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

For starters, most social thinking is flawed

Freight ship off Palm Beach, Florida coast at sunrise — Another brand new day. What is it going to be? You are in charge of that.

Was reading yesterday and stumbled upon this statement:

You can never expect to be someone else’s priority if you aren’t your own.

What does this mean? For starters it is flawed thinking.

Why?

Because as a midlife adult, truth be told, no one will ever care more about you than you.

Everything that happens to us is our responsibility.

Running our life is like running a business, like it or not.

And not paying attention to the business details will drive us to bankruptcy.

And approaching each day in a balanced way, and with excellence, will keep our business in the black.

Insight: Be the entrepreneur you have always dreamt of being, starting with your promotion to CEO of You, Inc.

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Getting old is not what throws us, it is the slow decline (to nearly zero)

Palm Beach Life 1932 magazine cover — At the other end of negativity is a category known as opulence (notice the magazine date)

Getting old is not what throws us, it is the slow decline (to nearly zero) in our investment to nourish and care for our positive attitude – against the never ending onslaught of negativity bombarding us in the news.

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Can midlife parenting become an art form?

Steve jobs quote from random office cubicle — Yep, we only get to do so many things (a mammoth one is being a parent) (photo from random office cubicle)

quote on office cubicle wall — The job of a parent, no? (from an office cubicle)

Can midlife parenting become an art form? Driving our son (13) to school yesterday, I told him the big picture is for him to look back and say:

Growing up, I was the luckiest kid on the planet.

The night before we talked about me no longer managing the how to do things, but to now facilitate his judgement and decision making skills.

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Midlife crisis is spending our life chasing our dreams and finally getting there, more or less

Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear. Life is not a dress rehearsal.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
– Freya Stark

Midlife crisis is spending our life chasing our dreams and finally getting there, more or less.

But in looking around, we think, “This isn’t what I wanted!”

Deep breath. Exhale… Remember all those things we promised ourselves when we were younger?

We should do them. But when?

Our biggest midlife challenge isn’t desire.

It’s time.

Finding time to… Pause.

Time to simply breath in and, maybe, actually, to take back…

Take back a little time to do something for ourselves that’s long overdue.

To… well… quite literally…

rethink • reprioritize • recommit

To re-shuffle our deck so to speak.

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Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear

Drew this in less than a minute in 2008

Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Our excuses often lead to regrets, and regrets can lead to life’s biggest wakeup calls. Wake up calls provide an amazing opportunity. However, what is missing in the midst of this is permission to change – to rethink, reprioritize, and recommit.

Midlife crisis is spending our life chasing our dreams and finally getting there, more or less. But in looking around we think, “This isn’t what I wanted!” Mid Life Celebration is using our gut-wrenching discovery, also known as a wake up call, to change things. Stop waiting for permission. Go!

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