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Same good and bad challenges 100 years apart?

Odds are great the vibe was the same extraordinarily high level of excitement in 1914, a century apart from today.

 

1914 concrete bench at University of Iowa

 

University of Iowa Homecoming 2014 sign

 

(photo top: Yesterday morning’s running route. Bottom: Flyer on the ground while running on campus.)

Not much changes in the human psyche. Why aren’t all our days extraordinary?

The vibe around homecoming is several levels higher than the karma around other fall weekends.

Why?

We all know why.

The bigger question is why do we not treat each weekend as this special?

Then convert this thinking to our daily living.

Asking why and why not is transformational.

Why are some days extraordinary?

Why are’t all our days extraordinary?

But it requires time.

Yeah, there’s always a catch.

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Age is a three-letter word

Disney Sale
Are your dreams for thriving in midlife for sale?

 

Age is a three-letter word.

Our thoughts and perspectives are habits.

Staying convicted that aging is bad or good is the choice of only one person.

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Be a good and decent person

Unique thank you card

 

(photo: Card hand delivered from Chicago to Iowa City last night.)

What’s our unspoken obligation every single day?

Be a good and decent person.

There is a quiet movement underway. It’s called authenticity.

We cherish it in others.

We long for it ourselves.

Please don’t die without addressing wherever you want to be in terms of authenticity.

Aren’t we all aiming for zero regrets?

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In a perfect world

Group photographer

 

(photo: Group photo of college buddies and their wives reuniting 30+ years later, on a North Carolina mountain top home of one of the guys.)

In a perfect world, everyone would be happy.

Impossible?

We are in charge of how we view the world.

Many insist you can’t be happy all the time.

Hmmm.

Can we be grateful all the time?

The answer depends on our attitude.

Nothing more, nothing less.

It all comes down to attitude.

And guess what drives our attitude?

Gratitude.

It’s not rocket surgery.

But it does require tremendous focus and discipline.

Which also comes down to attitude.

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What is it about this attitude that stiffens our spine?

Calling Fidelity Investments

 

(photo: Had 15 minutes to spare waiting for Sport Clips to open at 10am… time for a haircut before 10 days of travel in the next 12)

What is it about a particular attitude attribute that stiffens our spine?

Our minds can think of a great diversity of answers, yet there’s one answer, upon hearing it, we all nod, smile, and say, totally.

It’s when someone we know does what they say they’re gonna do, especially the big things that take years (maybe decades) to do and their progress is so slow and unremarkable, we never notice.

We never notice that is, until the day comes when they are done.

Then’s it’s, holy crap, she climbed that mountain.

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