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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
All Mid Life Celebration posts from 2008 – 2014.
Aging.
If we live long enough, we get the privilege to “age”.
With every privilege, comes responsibility and risk.
In my Family, Alzheimer’s Disease is a real and ugly part of our life.
Here are five simple things we might consider to alleviate, not eliminate, the odds.
Mid Life Celebration for:
Mark Victor Hansen writing tips:
Changing the world, one story at a time
Born Jan 8
www.YouPublish.com
Star Trek fan
Guinness Book of world records record holder, non-fiction
Inside Edge Jack & Mark
Andrew Carnegie – hand up or hand out
Dad was a baker – didn’t add skills
Can read 4,000 words a minute (?)
Stories must touch your heart
Write “Intoxicated, edit sober”
19 million books 1st year Teenage soul
Bucky Fuller
40 books
edit 9 times
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Know what she said?
Yesterday I heard one of our school’s middle-aged, elementary school teachers, with 35 years teaching experience, soliciting our parental feedback to make next year’s annual elementary, overnight camping trip more successful.
And in the process, she revealed two concepts I had to write down, because I thought they were profound. Now I’m sharing them with you.
First, she talked about the “Scared Privilege” it is to be a school teacher. And you could really feel her passion and sincerity.
It made me wonder what some of my sacred privileges are. Immediately, I had a decent list. Here are a few:
Being alive at Mid Life.
Being the parent of a student.
Being married.
Having good health and a roof over my head.
You know what it made me think?
It made me think. “Virtually everything we have is a sacred privilege”.
Secondly, she talked about her simple process for using any advice we give.
“Tweak it or toss it“!
What she meant was if something isn’t working too well, tweak it. If it doesn’t make it better, toss it.
It made me wonder how long I hold onto something that doesn’t work, without even trying to tweak it.
So today, I promise to relish my scared privileges and tweak the way I find time to be in the moment of our Mid-Life Celebration.
Make it a sacred day, because if you don’t, who will? Carpe diem, jeff 🙂