Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Got a Tweet the other day, plus an email.
Okay, not earth-shattering news.
But.
But they were from the same person.
So.
So he had a question he wanted to ask me.
(Again) So.
He wants to meet with me to ask it.
Not sure why a retweet or direct message, or even an email response wouldn’t satisfy his curiosity.
Anyway, we hope to meet later next week, so I can answer this, “What inspires you to write five daily blogs?”
Returning Visitors, this post will remain the first thing you see, for a week or so. You can still trust that I’m posting here every single day. Just scroll down for today’s post. Thanks.
It is now amazingly easy to click through all five daily blogs, without having to think or remember which order or how many you’ve already visited.
Simply click the top link under Blogroll, on the upper right-hand column. It automatically advances you.
Ever heard these phrases?:
On a friend’s suggestion, I’ve simplified navigation between the five daily blogs.
It’s basic, it’s common sense, and just one more simple improvement.
It reminds me of mid life.
PS. Please scroll past this to read today’s post. Thanks.
Mid Life Celebration has now been writing five daily blogs for one year.
This is not an April Fool’s joke (although the timing is perfect).
I remember how it all started. March 2009. Our 2nd-grade son was questioning why he had to read aloud 20 minutes every day.
“If you want to be a good reader, you need to read a lot”, I said.
Then I continued, “You know I’m training for the World Championships, right? If I want to be a good runner, I need to run a lot.”
Then, the flash of light!
“If you want to be a good writer, you should write a lot.”
What started as a simple 100-day challenge to write daily, in the five blogs, has turned into a heretical marketing and brand value proposition.
There’s a hidden, subtle message in this Mid Life blog post. Most likely, you will struggle to understand it. It’s crazy that I even ask you to try, isn’t it?
Life is crazy.
Work is crazy.
The economy is crazy.
Health Care is crazy.
People are crazy.
And I’m one of them, and so are you.
Jimmy Buffett, who’s released over 40 CD’s in his lifetime and has a cult following of “Parrotheads“, once said:
“If we weren’t all crazy, we’d all go insane.”
Writing five daily blogs is crazy.
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary.
It began as a simple 100-day challenge.
The rest, as they say, is history.
PS. I have all 40 of Jimmy Buffett’s Cd’s and consider myself an original Parrothead. (I know, who cares?)
Do you celebrate meaningful milestones in your life? Or, do they come and go like the seasons – here and gone before you know it.
In two days, I’m celebrating one year of writing five daily blogs.
The learning curve has been amazing. Sometimes steep and challenging. Sometimes flat and easy.
At jeff noel.com, I wrote a Mid Life Celebration summary. Wanted to share it here, one last time, before it’s removed:
“Mid Life Celebration is where I challenge myself to: Rethink. Reprioritize. Recommit.
There are four key areas to my life, every life actually, and I share thoughts, tips and on a good day, a decent dose of motivation.
I’m challenging myself, because I’m crystal clear on the fact that none of us is going to live forever.
I am very thankful for the wake up calls in my life. I no longer ignore the clock. I embrace it and am inspired by it. What about you? What have you got to lose, seriously?”