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The four significant obstacles to doing what we say we are going to do

Fellow midlife travelers, how exciting is it to accomplish what we set out to do, especially when:

it has taken forever
the odds were stacked against us
no one was cheering us on
and we worked almost exclusively alone for a monumental personal victory?

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Opening Mid Life Celebration’s first book was exciting (and frightening)

Xulon Press package of books — Exciting times – almost too nervous to open it.

Opening the package containing Mid Life Celebration’s first book was exciting (and frightening). Did you catch the subtle manifestation of nerves in yesterday’s posts? All the photos on different chairs and the Sand Hill Cranes? Why not rip the package open right away?

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Let us not get caught up in midlife bickering

UPS delivery truck in rural neighborhood — Waited all morning for the moment the UPS delivery truck pulled up (October 22, 2013)

Waited all morning for the moment the UPS delivery truck pulled up (October 22, 2013).

Well, actually, it was more like 34 years, but let’s not split hairs.

The story continues at…

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Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: What a wonderful world

Nature is art. Art is nature. (photo: Lorie Sheffer)

A decade of pessimism. Polls have shown that for an entire decade, the majority of people have had negative attitudes about our country. Ten years of looking through the lens of pessimism. How sad. How exhausting. How habitual.

I think back over the past ten years. I have gone to 8 funerals. My husband lost his job of 25 years. Two of the most important men in my life struggled through life threatening illness. I’ve had exactly three mini vacations, overnights, in the past 7 years. And yet I do not feel this sense of pessimism that seems to be sweeping the country. I’m not a very religious person, not one of the faithful. And yet I see hope and beauty all around me. I look for the good in people and refuse to focus on the negative. Why? Because to do anything less would, in my mind, be a waste of this gift of life that I have been given. Perhaps I choose to remain positive because of, and not in spite of, all of those heartbreaking moments. We can choose to be pessimistic, or we can choose to be optimistic. For me, it’s an easy call.

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If you don’t mind attention (and enormous gratitude) being drawn to you…

Cheesy slogan — One out of three is not too bad in some situations.

Blogging mid-morning from Starbucks on an iPhone. A rare trifecta. Busy schedules are no match for the commitment to a daily, morning writing routine – usually before sunrise.

But today is different.

Today excitement has arrived in an inexplicable way.

The excitement of a bountiful harvest.

And if you don’t mind attention (and enormous gratitude) being drawn to you, you are going to feel triumph in this too.

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