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Modest, lowliness
A world-class thinker thinks deeper, broader and higher than those around her.
While world-class thinkers can frustrate and can be frustrated, they are indispensable, or as Seth Godin has coined, they are Linchpins.
These thinkers are typically most easily identified by the questions they ask – the ones everyone should have a clear, concise and compelling answer to, but don’t.
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Today is the first day of summer vacation.
What am I going to do to kick it off?
“I’m going to Disney World”.
Sitting here writing from the breezeway in Cinderella Castle.
No seriously. I’m on vacation. Sitting here in the breezeway. Yes, Disney’s Magic Kingdom.
The sun is not up yet.
I sure hope this isn’t some twisted fairy tale.
Technology for mid-lifers, and many others actually, is scary. But it doesn’t need to be.
Heck, as we heard in Lorie Sheffer’s Guest post yesterday, Marriage can be scary. Remember what her grandson said, “Doesn’t anyone stay together anymore?”
Maybe a good question for Baby Boomers is, “Doesn’t anyone keep up with technology anymore?” How do you address this? “Head in the sand” or “take the hill”?
I caught up to him on Saturday morning, 14 minutes into it, at the two-mile mark. We still had 1.1 miles to go. He looked like a good runner, and probably in my age-group.
It would be about three more minutes before I made a calculated move. Up the hill. Not a big hill, but at the 2.5 mile mark, any hill seems big.
“When you ran up that hill, I knew there was no way I’d catch you”, he said.
Out of nowhere.
That’s where it came from.
After the race, we were just talking about running, getting in shape, and the reasons we do it and the common struggles to stay motivated.
He had lost 50 pounds. “Congratulations!”, I said.
Then.
Out of nowhere.
“After our son died, I gained a lot of weight. It was three years before I decided to lose the weight”, he said.
“What happened?”, I asked, hesitantly, but unafraid.
His son was in college, but home and riding in a friend’s car.
The friend crashed, and his son died tragically.
It happened near their home.
What prompts us recognize a milestone? What milestones are worthy of celebratory significance? How do we avoid sounding boastful?
Some things, like births and deaths, are major milestones we mark by recalling them each year. Some with celebration. Some with sorrow.
Today is a bit of both.
My Dad, Jack Noel, left his earthly life April 10, 2001.
He and our son never met. A summer trip home had been planned for June, but it was too late.
I learned a lot from my Dad, by what he did and didn’t do, but not from what he said. We didn’t talk much. Conversation between us was challenging.
Come to find out, I have so much to say that today marks the 2,000th blog post at Mid Life Celebration, LLC.
Five daily blogs. One midlife passion prescription.
Hey Dad, how’s Carter doing up there? 🙂 Miss you both.