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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Blogging is so much fun! But for some it feels like work. And for others, the day doesn’t arrive soon enough to get started.
Did you catch what I dropped yesterday?
It’s fun to help people think for themselves and to be a source of authenticity in a world diametrically opposed to it.
It’s also fun to see if people are paying attention.
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Mid Life Crisis and Mid Life Celebration greetings from Finland.
I’m here, representing the USA at the Master’s Track & Field World Championships.
I competed yesterday against the world’s best 400 meter runners in the 50-54 age group, finishing sixth in the first of seven heats.
My time was embarrassing by my standards, for a variety of reasons, yet my effort to make it this far is completely Gold medal worthy.
It reminded me, as you probably already know, doing our best is really what we all desire.
I vow to do my very best today. A day is a terrible thing to waste.
Carpe diem, jeff noel midlife 🙂
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Obsessed?
Maybe.
Recently, I asked a friend for the perception of my work ethic, trying to identify any “blind spots”.
My friend, asked, “Are you obsessed”?
Intuitively, I said, if Walt Disney was sitting here with us, I’d say, “You first Walt”.
Walt would reply, most likely, “Damn right I’m obsessed. Absolutely”!
Told my friend, when you turned to me to get my answer, I’d simply reply, “Ditto”!
The road to excellence has no finish line. Whether you are at work, engaged in your favorite hobby, or sitting in a pew at Church.
It’s also the same at mid-life.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
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Is it a secret?
What?
The vision for Mid Life Celebration.
No, it’s not a secret. But it is crazy.
Crazy? Why?
Because who am I to think that I could rally enough Baby Boomer men to help make the world a better place?
There’s roughly 80 million Baby Boomers. Let’s say half are men, that’s 40 million.
Let’s suppose, since 97% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 3% of the population, there’s an assumption that says 3% in any category are “movers and shakers”.
Three percent of 40 Mil is 1.2 Million Baby Boomer men who are predisposed to be excellent.
Initially, I’d like to challenge these 1.2 million men, as they start to retire and have, theoretically, more disposable money and certainly more disposable time, to do something great.
To turn off the television, get up of their butts and “do something great“!
The “doing something great” definition encompasses this:
The world needs a ton of help. Elder men ought to assume enough responsibility to proactively start the momentum for positive change.
If we’re lucky, these Baby Boomer men will create a ripple effect.
And then, Baby Boomer women, Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials and on down to elementary schools will be predisposed – to plants seeds of social, spiritual, physical, emotional and financial responsibility.
As President Obama has said, “We can. We Will. IF, we all work together”.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
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“The happiness of our life depends on the quality of our thoughts”. — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
My new friend Frank, the front office manager at Mitchell’s Sand Castles, on Sanibel Island, told me I am always smiling. I wanted to say, “And your point is”?, but I didn’t.
We had a decent discussion about finding your source for motivation, and finding your purpose in life.
Just yesterday, I wrote a post about something that daily enhances my life.
Amazing how something as simple as changing a radio station has yielded such noticeable benefits.
Well, not only changing the station, but then keeping it there. Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
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