Category: Joy In Your Spirit

Glad, elated, thankful

Balance Deconstructed

Mind.  Body.  Spirit.  Money.  Otherwise known as Balance. This is the second of two posts today. A double shot!

Do you know anyone who epitomizes work-life balance?  I do not.  So I took matters into my own hands and came up with a life-changing model.  It’s ridiculously simple.

MIND – Mental Health, Learning, Attitude

BODY – Physical Health & Wellness

SPIRIT – Spiritual Health; Faith, Hope & Love

MONEY – Financial Health; Job, Career, our contribution to society

I’ve literally spent a lifetime searching for the secret recipe for balance. Since becoming a Father nine years ago, this is the one I’m convinced is the key to transforming my life.

Focus on Life’s Big Four.  Hey, I’m not a scientist or a genius, just a common man who looks at things differently and likes to keep it simple.

Family Time At Disney

Family time at the Walt Disney World Resort. This month in particular, we’ve visited Disney Theme Parks every week.  Why?  Cooler temperatures initiated it.

Mid Life Celebration has kept it alive.  A mid life crisis is when a sort of panic (or doubt) sets in that has us question if we are on the correct path in our lives.  Can’t remember ever being so busy with life. Can you?

Perhaps it’s the economic situation and the constant change that is happening all around us.  What to do?  Go to Disney.  Walt Disney wanted a place where Families could do nice things together and forget about reality for a couple hours or a couple days.

We take frequent, but short trips to Disney Theme Parks. Here’s a jeff noel midlife You Tube from earlier this month:

Hope your Mid Life Celebration includes some Family time. It’s challenging to find quality family time, when you’re so busy dealing with all the things life places in front of you. Carpe diem.

Mid-Life in Paris?

Mid-Life in Paris?

Yes.

Huh?

Paris. France. Le Tour de France.

But not for long.

Catching a flight to Helsinki. But you probably already know that.

Thank you for your support here.

When I get settled in Finland, wil do my best to add photos and video from this Mid Life Celebration.

Make it a GREAT mid-life day.   Carpe diem, jeff noel  🙂

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Mid Life, Rejoice

Rejoice at mid life? In the middle of a mid-life crisis? Are you kidding me? Nope. But it ain’t easy. We have to train ourselves to rejoice.

How do you train yourself to rejoice during a mid-life crisis? Couple ways.

One of my favorites is to read good thoughts, daily, like this one:

“Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double”. — Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Simple. Have someone be part of your life, and be part of someone else’s life.

This also isn’t easy, especially as we age, and even more so as we pass mid-life into late-life.

Recently, an extraordinarily insightful woman I get to work with occasionally, commented, “I’m no longer the most important person in any body’s life”.

Not in any one’s life? How can that be?

It will probably happen to all of us, if we get the privilege to live long enough.

I like to look ahead and start planning for things I haven’t yet seen, nor can yet comprehend.

Mid-Life is part of our journey, if we are lucky to make it that far. It seemed to me that I shouldn’t waste the gift of middle age.

While it’s impossible to predict the future. There is one thing I do predict, that mid-life rejoicing will help me more than mid-life complaining.

You buy that? I do. In fact, I’ll take two, please.

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