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.

Mid Life Clues

“The interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, even after obtaining the object of one’s desire, one is still not satisfied, it becomes limitless or boundless and that leads to trouble. On the other hand, if one has a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether one obtains the object or not; either way, one is still content.” — Dalai Lama