Month: June 2016

Our head is spinning with anxious thoughts about today’s to-do list

child learning how to put gas in a car
Eventually, we have to do this for real, along with a million other things.

 

It’s a busy world. Our day, today, probably has our head spinning with how can we possibly accomplish everything before it’s time to go to sleep.

To add to that workload, i’m offering an eight-minute read from Seth Godin about why our educational system influences our need for compliance.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Good morning mind blowing thought

The Lakeland Center
Five in the foreground, two in the center. Five blogs a day for the two most important people in my life.

 

That feeling when you wake up and realize you are one month away from something that blows your mind.

And you realize that what you began seven years prior has lasted.

And it lasted because, well, you have no idea why.

Except maybe because you had had enough negative self-talk and decided to burn the ships.

PS. No one is immune from negative self-talk, not even the most positive people you know.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Happy 57th birthday dude

Family history photos on wall
How many people live intentionally, which includes living with a deadline?

 

Happy 57th birthday dude. Ok, so it’s still 100 days away as i write this this morning. But when it posts, it’ll be the 57th anniversary of my birth.

Yes, i get that my approach is crazy.

i think we should all consider that the alternative – living like we have forever – is also crazy.

To each his or her own.

i committed to a ten-year plan seven years ago.

Nothing is going to have me back down from it now.

Give yourself the gift of courage to do the impossible.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Refrigerator art for midlife

Epcot landscaping
Yesterday after lunch, walking back to our car. The walk, and the time and conversation together, was not urgent.

 

The urgency of daily living feels like a good reason to abandon the important thing we postpone for later.

We become more aware of the reality of our time on Earth and the limitations placed on us by our life’s choices, and the evaporating options remaining.

Looking back, we can’t remember what that urgent thing was. All we have to show for it now is the the habit we didn’t change.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Counting down 3, 2, 1

Baby wearing headphones
Two nights ago at State Final Basketball game. What dreams from our childhood do we still cherish?

 

Counting down 3, 2, 1…

Today, tomorrow, and then my 57th birthday.

Three days from now the decade-long journey becomes more real.

Odds are decent i’ll live past 60, but it’s not a 100% guarantee.

This is why i boldly declared committed to pursuing a 10-year dream to do everything in life i want to do, as if turning 60 was my last day on earth.

In three days, there are only three years remaining.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.