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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Why did jeff noel found Mid Life Celebration six years ago?
Because action cures fear.
For more than six years jeff has been working towards the ability to raise (a ton of) money to donate to the good people looking for a cure for something currently incurable.
The President of the Foundation in New York has agreed to meet to hear the crazy idea.
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Can you pin point the thought or event that changed the direction of your life?
The catalytic thought that changed the trajectory of my life…
The notion of, “What would we do if we only had six months to live” just didn’t feel right…
A more compelling idea emerged, “What if we had only ten years to do everything we ever wanted to do in life?”
Sorta chuckled right away that one year would go by and i’d suddenly be embarrassingly reminded of that “promise”, “Uh oh, now i only have nine years to do the ten year plan.”
The idea that it all had to be done within a decade was intoxicating because it seemed so doable. So much so that i began six months before the milestone 50th birthday – the starting line of “the next ten years”.
Rather than procrastinate, i got a tax ID and started an LLC on January 1, 2009.
The big picture?
Five more years to finish a 30-year Disney career and retire at 55.
And five more years to put a dent in the Universe – to raise money to fund a cure for Crohn’s disease.
Now here we are.
To be continued…
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Today’s five Mid Life Celebration posts revolve around:
There’s a second helping that includes being:
Here’s the main insight today:
Overcoming your struggles is your real objective. You are in charge. We need to be amazing at overcoming temptations to be less than we are capable of.
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iNotice a lot of things.
And write about how they help or hinder us. Five daily blogs. Each one a different theme. Each one a critical component to balance.
Like the fact that we race to get started in the morning. We race to get to work. We race to do our work. Then we race home to do the evening routine.
We plan on slowing down and rearranging our priorities at some point.
We forget that we are in charge and need to create the “some point”.
Someday is not a day of the week, nor a future date on our calendar. Someday is a lie.
But we are too busy to notice.
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The fundamental challenge from Mid Life Celebration to the world is simply this:
Do Something Great.
Mend an important relationship before its too late. Help raise money to find a cure for something incurable, or something in between.
Is there a deadline?
Yes.
Death.
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