About Mid Life Celebration – Page 8 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

The fascination with fascination

Orlando based inspirational speakers — Waiting at LAX with our Son. He is the reason i began writing.

The fascination with fascination. Just over seven years ago, i began thinking about what would my life be like if i lived like i were dying?

To challenge the status quo – because it’s just a habit i cannot break – rather than think in terms of “only six months to live”, i landed on the idea of “what if you had 10 years left?”

Come June 8, there will be exactly three years left of that decade-long opportunity.

All i can think about is this:

What if i hadn’t begun this commitment? Where would the past seven years have taken me?

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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Only four days from beginning the eighth year

iPhone calculator screen shot — Come April 1, 2016, this is how many blog posts i’ve written in seven years.

Ever do something that was impossible at first, miraculously accomplish it, but then it grew into something even more impossible?

Only four days until the beginning of the eighth year.

Seven years (2,557 days, including two leap years) of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts equals 12,785 posts.

There are also 100 days worth of (500) posts that are written and in the que to publish. Yes, i suffer from writer’s flood. Some days, writing only five posts isn’t enough.

So in reality, i’ve written 13,285 posts.

Sick.

Impossible.

No end in sight.

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They say it takes seven years to make a profit

Historic Climate change agreement — A few days ago, an historic moment for the world.

Historic moments are rare.

And when these moments happen, things change.

i’m quietly and humbly celebrating a significant historic moment.

They say it takes seven years to make a profit.

Like clockwork.

In 18 days, on January 1, 2016, Mid Life Celebration’s eighth year begins.

Was sharing on the phone with my Mom yesterday that 2015 was the first year of real revenue.

While still at Disney, the book revenue in 2013 and 2014 was so minuscule (closer to zero than to $5k each year), that if we rounded to the closest number, it would be zero.

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Lunch at MOMS

Melts on Main Street Winter Garden — We both had the Fancy Pig at MOMS; “Melts On Main Street”.

Lunch in a small town, on a breezy and sunny Florida afternoon. We ate. We talked. i just wanted to personally have some face to face time to say how grateful i am for her support. Joyce has done Mid Life Celebration, LLC’s taxes for four of it’s six years. And it took six years to make the first dime, and it took seven to make a profit.

Not many last seven years to see this finally happen.

On a side note, it will take two more years to pay off the debt incurred.

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Let’s dissect this May 2010 photograph

Orlando based keynote motivational speaker — In this 2010 photo (l-r): My first book’s storyboard, desk against the wall, Macbook on desk, PC on desk.

Let’s dissect this May 2010 photograph.

The original vision for writing a book happened in 1979, as a college Junior.

Started the process for gathering the content to write a book during Fall 2009. Yes, that’s really 30 years later.

The storyboard pictured above completed by Spring 2010.

The book was written Summer 2013.

Only three people knew the book had been completed:

me • our son (13) • the publisher

The first copy went to Cheryl on Thanksgiving morning 2013. She was clueless that it had been finished and was astonished to learn it was actually available on Amazon.

About an hour or two later, i announced to the world (Family/Friends/Colleagues) that the book (and Kindle version) was now available on Amazon.

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