Mid Life Celebration is when Best Buy’s Geek Squad delvers on their promise to help people with Internet and Technology challenges.
Purchased a wireless router, wireless printer and Geek Squad installation package here in Orlando, Florida and they installed it yesterday, in Pennsylvania.
There’s now a 71 year old in Pennsylvania who’s wirelessly connected to the world.
Are you using technology to it’s (your) full potential? Or are you lamenting about the good old days?
Good Thursday morning everyone. Sitting here in the office with a neighbor friend who’s interested in social media. We’ve been talking for an hour now, and it’s very different for me to begin the daily writing process with “an audience”.
You may be asking, “So?”
So, all this means is that it feels really good to find a unique way to illustrate the whole concept of waking up and writing five blogs each morning. I mean, there’s a Pastor here validating this. It’s simply an unexpected opportunity to illustrate the way this blog is different from the other 80-million blogs.
Nothing phony here. Real life in real time.
As you think about your challenges at whatever life-stage you’re in, do you like your level of motivation, or do you feel like giving up? It’s your choice. Always has been, always will be.
The harder, and longer, you work, the luckier you get. You’ve heard this saying, right? But do you believe it?
I have some of the coolest friends in the world. One of them is Lorie Sheffer who writes here on Sundays. She sent me this link to a radical, and important piece of contemporary art – it attempts to start the dialogue to cure our materialistic blues.
Another cool friend is going to premier as a Mid Life Celebration Guest Blogger here. He’s committed to helping me us lighten up a bit. He’s nutty and brilliant, and stealthily funny.
Love or hate it. American Idol is down to the final two contestants. Both Crystal and Lee will become famous recording artists. Winning American Idol isn’t necessary for either, but the winner obviously will have endorsement opportunities that are harder to sell when you’re runner up.
Over the years we all become fans of a TV show or two. American Idol became a Family “event” years ago, after I became intrigued with Simon Cowell’s brutal honesty – which I found refreshingly inspirational.
This year, it’s still a Family event, minus my participation – too many other things clamoring for attention – until two nights ago.
And it was just last week, knowing that the season ends soon, I asked our son who he thought would win. ”Lee!”, he said.
What does today’s post have to do with midlife?
Everything. While the contestants do not get a second chance to “do over”, we do. It’s called midlife celebration – a once in a lifetime chance to:
Technology for mid-lifers, and many others actually, is scary. But it doesn’t need to be.
Heck, as we heard in Lorie Sheffer’s Guest post yesterday, Marriage can be scary. Remember what her grandson said, “Doesn’t anyone stay together anymore?”
Maybe a good question for Baby Boomers is, “Doesn’t anyone keep up with technology anymore?” How do you address this? “Head in the sand” or “take the hill”?
“The interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, even after obtaining the object of one’s desire, one is still not satisfied, it becomes limitless or boundless and that leads to trouble. On the other hand, if one has a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether one obtains the object or not; either way, one is still content.” — Dalai Lama
There’s never been a show like Veggie Tales. This is a version you’ve never heard before. A four-year old puts his unique, entertaining, and JOYFUL spin on it.
As we go through our daily grind today, we will be faced with many choices. Are you committed to choosing wisely? I mean day after day, choice after choice.
Ever get to the end of your work day and feel like you gave so much you hardly have energy to be engaged later in the evening?
Was feeling like that yesterday after giving two great keynote speeches here at the Metro Toronto Convention Center.
But there were several tempting choices:
Run along the harbor waterfront
Visit the CN Tower (world’s tallest?)
Attend the Blue Jays vs Red Sox Baseball game
So, knowing that these opportunities will most likely never come again, I’ll share photos of what happened, after I get to Charlotte, North Carolina. Carpe diem!
