Category: About Mid Life Celebration

Mid Life Celebration is a chip off of this old block

jeff noel's early website and blogs
Began Disney career as jungle jeff January 25, 1982

 

Mid Life Celebration is a chip off of this old block – a man with a famous mouse.

Have intentionally avoided mentioning that on Mid Life Celebration’s posts that I work full time at one of the most admired companies in the world – and have for three decades.

Why remain silent?

Don’t really know why.

It surely isn’t a secret.

The Internet has ensured there are no secrets – about anything.

A man named Walt always felt the bar for excellence was never high enough, and nothing was impossible.

Insight: We should pay attention, there is always a lesson to be learned. And rarely are the lessons handed to us on a silver platter. And some lessons are game changers.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal has origins other than Mid Life Celebration

Randy Pausch and his three young children
Randy Pausch wrote The Last Lecture so his three children would know him after he died

 

Mid Life Celebration was a promise to my children as a college sophomore (1978)
Mid Life Celebration was a promise to my children as a college junior (1979)

 

The clock never stops ticking. Ever.

We get one shot at life (okay, maybe we are reincarnated as another life form, but I can’t say for sure).

We fear death.

We fear not living before we die.

In a busy world I can’t swear I read it first or I thought of it myself.

But I can tell you for sure it’s a fact in my head, my heart, and my actions.

Life is not a dress rehearsal has origins other than Mid Life Celebration.

The full disclosure is – as of today, thanks to the link – it felt natural to let you know that I now know.

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The only reason to not follow our heart?

List of top 10 interview questions
Number 9 ought to be a stunning, inspiring, courageous description, no?

 

The only reason to not follow our heart? Trick question. There’s none.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. – Steve Jobs

Life is not a dress rehearsal. Live like you mean it. – jeff noel

A hundred years from now, no one will remember anything you did. Go.

Let’s not allow embarrassment to stop us from doing something great.

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Henry David Thoreau’s mantra is not unlike Mid Life Celebration’s

Mid Life Celebration's tag line
Three profoundly simple steps to create a new path

 

Henry David Thoreau’s mantra is not unlike Mid Life Celebration’s:

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

ReThink. RePrioritize. ReCommit.

It’s that simple.

Over and over and over and over and…

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Mid Life Celebration is about life’s discontent worth satisfying

professional development seminar from back of room
If everyone in the minority is ok with that, life is great

 

Mid Life Celebration is about satisfying our life’s discontent. Our little choices, shortcuts, decisions we made on our journey that have, over decades, gotten us so far off track we want desire real change.

Mid Life Celebration is not for everyone, although no one is excluded.

Most people outside our group think we’re crazy, or at the very least, ignore us.

Of course.

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