Category: Everything Is Important

We never see it coming

palm trees and airplane
Yesterday doing email on a raft in the pool, a jet in upper left corner.

 

i think the reason i put off living vibrantly was because i was so busy trying to survive the day-to-day.

Because my life wasn’t vibrant, i kept things set to survival (busy) mode. Obviously, now is not the best time to live vibrantly, right? i’ll get to that later when i we get my life in order.

But then i thought what if this week is the best week that i’ll ever have in my entire life and i squander it and never regain it?

Thinking the best, most vibrant is ahead of us – and waiting for it – is dangerous.

That was really clear yesterday.

Yesterday, and the entire past week, has been crazy good.

Never saw it coming.

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The speed of midlife

Honeymoon by bicycle
When will we make time to drink life in? To savor it. To suck the marrow out of it? Honeymoon photo, 1984. (Wedding was 14 months earlier)

 

The speed of midlife is fast.

And most of us like it that way.

Why?

Because it allows us to have a great excuse for why we aren’t changing.

“i’ll do it when my life slows down.”

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Most days look good on paper

CCFA meeting in Orlando
Yesterday morning at the Lake Buena Vista Hilton on Walt Disney World property.

 

Like most Americans, lots going on this Summer. Today, July 28, it’s time to head out for a run, then an 8am coaching meeting – i’m a guinea pig client for a former colleague. Then back home to finish a client proposal mid-morning and hit the gym before meeting with High School Counselor to pick ninth grader’s classes.

Looks good on paper.

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Why life’s boring basics are key to any success

Feet x-ray
Two days ago…one foot in front of the other…

 

Why life’s boring basics are key to any success. Let’s call them out:

  • Consistency
  • Time

Effort, done consistently over a long period of time does what?

It produces results that are never achievable otherwise.

Inconsistency and impatience are status quo. The power of the pessimistic Herd hypnotizes us, poisons us, numbs us.

Dreaming big and making slow and steady progress has the same influential ability wind and water have on rock, over time.

The boring basics.

Invest heavily.

Put all your eggs in one basket.

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