Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Mid Life Pink Floyd

A Woofer The Size Of The Trunk
A Woofer The Size Of The Trunk

What if we could look forward to death? Since we look forward to all the other major life events – birth, adolescence, marriage, retirement – why not death?

I mean seriously, it’s not like it’s not going to happen.

Pink Floyd is one of those bands that crosses generations in it’s popularity, and there is a line from one of their songs, “Is there anybody out there.”

Reflecting back on yesterday’s post, that question, and then that song, just popped my mind.

Is there anybody out there who wants to share insights on dying well?

If we do some advance work, the event itself won’t be an overwhelming event that devastates us.

Any takers?

Fear Of Being Incapacitated?

Back Then, You Could Die Flying
Back Then, You Could Die Flying

Are you ready to die? Most don’t like to think about it. Ever wonder why this is so?

Two weeks ago on a flight to Allentown, Pennsylvania, I asked the woman (70-ish) next to me about death and dying. Long story, but it was neither awkward nor inappropriate.

The woman said she was not afraid of death. She told me “her life story” but added at the end, she was afraid of two things:

  1. Having no control over things
  2. Becoming a burden

While visiting Family in Allentown, I asked some direct questions.  The answers were fuzzy, meaning I left with no more insight than when I arrived.

Mid Life Clues

“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

Are You Crazy Enough?

Crazy Bicyclist?
Crazy Bicyclist?

Are you crazy enough to dream BIG? I mean “Change the World” BIG!

Mid Life Celebration’s vision is to inspire just three percent (3%) of the male Baby Boomers to do something GREAT before they die.

From mending a Family relationship before someone dies, to helping to find a cure for an incurable disease, or something in between.

With roughly half of the 80-million Baby Boomers being men, that’s a target market of 1.2 million.

And then we pray and bank on the ripple effect.  Any idea why?