Category: Joy In Your Spirit

Glad, elated, thankful

Mid Life Crisis?

It's An Unusual (Good) Morning
It's An Unusual (Good) Morning

Good Thursday morning everyone. Sitting here in the office with a neighbor friend who’s interested in social media. We’ve been talking for an hour now, and it’s very different for me to begin the daily writing process with “an audience”.

You may be asking, “So?”

So, all this means is that it feels really good to find a unique way to illustrate the whole concept of waking up and writing five blogs each morning. I mean, there’s a Pastor here validating this. It’s simply an unexpected opportunity to illustrate the way this blog is different from the other 80-million blogs.

Nothing phony here. Real life in real time.

As you think about your challenges at whatever life-stage you’re in, do you like your level of motivation, or do you feel like giving up? It’s your choice. Always has been, always will be.

So Incredibly Thankful

Simple Blessings
Simple Blessings

The harder, and longer, you work, the luckier you get. You’ve heard this saying, right? But do you believe it?

I have some of the coolest friends in the world. One of them is Lorie Sheffer who writes here on Sundays. She sent me this link to a radical, and important piece of contemporary art – it attempts to start the dialogue to cure our materialistic blues.

Another cool friend is going to premier as a Mid Life Celebration Guest Blogger here. He’s committed to helping me us lighten up a bit. He’s nutty and brilliant, and stealthily funny.

He could be here tomorrow or the next.

American Idol Showdown

There's An American Idol Experience Here
There's An American Idol Experience Here

Love or hate it.  American Idol is down to the final two contestants. Both Crystal and Lee will become famous recording artists. Winning American Idol isn’t necessary for either, but the winner obviously will have endorsement opportunities that are harder to sell when you’re runner up.

Over the years we all become fans of a TV show or  two.  American Idol became a Family “event” years ago, after I became intrigued with Simon Cowell’s brutal honesty – which I found refreshingly inspirational.

This year, it’s still a Family event, minus my participation – too many other things clamoring for attention – until two nights ago.

And it was just last week, knowing that the season ends soon, I asked our son who he thought would win.  “Lee!”, he said.

What does today’s post have to do with midlife?

Everything. While the contestants do not get a second chance to “do over”, we do. It’s called midlife celebration – a once in a lifetime chance to:

  • Rethink
  • Reprioritize
  • Recommit

An Apple A Day

An Apple A Day?

An Apple A Day?

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”?

Happy Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day

Mid Life Travel

Is He Pulling A Princess Bag?
Is He Pulling A Princess Bag?

Most humans love to travel. There’s something about travel that brings out the adventurer in all of us.

There are different types of travel:

  • Routine, day to day
  • Once in a lifetime
  • Business
  • Obligation (wedding, death)
  • Spontaneous
  • Award (prize)
  • Family tradition
  • Fantasy (day dreams)

We often dream of traveling more when we retire – when we have more time, more money for ourselves.

Today, I’m doing business travel.  Never thought life would lead me to a job that pays me to travel and give speeches to change the world.

Mid Life Crisis is reaching our lifelong destination and realizing, “This isn’t what I wanted!”

Mid Life Celebration is reaching your midlife crisis and figuring out creative ways to turn it into the best time of your life.