Dear Readers, does this sound like us at the beginning of our promises?

Church courtyard
Each day is a new opportunity to take positive action or to chicken out

 

Will we look back to the very first week of 2014 and think to ourselves, “Wow, I really surprised myself with how quickly I started taking small, calculated risks that normally I wouldn’t have.”

Taking action is the quickest way to positive, transformational new habits.

We know this.

Yesterday, January 5, purchased the smallest laptop possible, even though the 13″ screen on the other one was ‘bigger/better’.

Doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it was.

You know the feeling.

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Mid Life Celebration, the book, much like our life, has only the meaning we assign to it

Mid Life Celebration, best selling book
Everybody can use a gentle, generous, direct, and kind nudge

 

Positive, decent, optimistic. These are the qualities our attitude was created to produce.

We also have the power to produce the opposite.

We control our thoughts.

Mid Life Celebration, the book, much like our life, has only the meaning we assign to it.

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Dear readers, it certainly is not a secret, but…

Disney fireworks from Fantasyland
Spent last night celebrating in my home town

 

It certainly is not a secret, but… the Internet lets anyone discover anything about anybody. There are no more secrets. Zero.

Huh?

Yesterday (September 27, 2013) was a work anniversary – 29 consecutive years with the same organization. And if you add in eight more months as a 1982 seasonal worker, it’s almost 30 years total.

Why this remains a literal secret at Mid Life Celebration’s five daily, differently-themed blogs is intriguing.

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Dear readers, these twin demons challenge our every hope of succeeding

Colorful beads at Apple Store window display
We see things at first glance and think it is what it is

 

Colorful beads at Apple Store window display
Things are not always as they appear

 

Colorful beads at Apple Store window display
Things are still not always as they appear

 

What does the new year have in store for us? Are we already resigned to defeat, or chomping at the bit for the opportunity to begin another year?

The twin demons of fear and compliance. They can kill our dreams slowly, one busy day after another.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
– Bertrand Russell

Living with regret is worse than living with failure.

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