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.

Guest Blogger Lorie Sheffer: Crisis

Three Mile Island

 

(photo Lorie Sheffer: Three Mile Island)

Remember when TMI meant something other than Too Much Information?

Think of all the things we worry about. Sometimes those worries are a huge group effort. The flames of fear and hysteria are fanned by misinformation and passed on as truth. Rumors and mistrust run rampant. Facts are thrown to the wind.

When the dust settles, the crisis has been averted and the experts are proven to have honestly been giving us facts and not trying to inexplicably mislead us with a lie, when the conspiracy theories die down, what then? What have we learned?

We all seem to fear most that which we do not understand, and yet how many of us make it a point to learn the facts?
Most of all, why do we only seem to care when the “crisis” is knocking on our own door?

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Spend our lives learning how to make this an unnatural response

Six great quotes about worry

 

(photo: iPhone screen shot – from one of yesterday’s many emails)

It’s natural to worry about how we’ll get through tragedy, pain, and uncertainty.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche

And because it’s so natural, we actually have to spend our lives learning how to make this an unnatural response, not an auto-response.

Not worrying is not an act of denial, nor a manifestation from not caring.

It is strength. Growth. Victory. Wisdom.

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The harsh reality of death and a busy world

Morning clouds off Sanibel Island

 

(photo: Sunrise on the morning after Cooper’s departure)

The harsh reality of death and a busy world.

Bad things happen in two major catatogies:

  1. Expected
  2. Unexpected

We expect very old people to die.

We do not expect very young people to die.

While death is difficult, it is especially difficult when it’s unexpected.

We all know this.

The best defense, and perhaps the only defense, is to live like you mean it.

To not waste a single day.

Not one.

We know this.

But do we actually do it?

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