Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Patience, self-control, calm
Each and every day, what do you get done before leaving your dwelling?
Is it the same every day, or different?
Are you in a fog or crystal clear?
I’d say it was roughly 40 years before I figured out the difference.
And the answer has changed my life. I hope it transforms yours as well.
However, the answer is so simple, most of you will never figure it out.
Today is an “active rest” day.
A midlife crisis is essentially that period of time when we are faced with the reality that the path we have been traveling on all our life is no longer fulfilling or motivating -we’ve come to a dead end.
The crisis is that we have invested our entire lives on this journey and now we come to find out it’s not what we want. How is that possible? Smart people. Dedicated people. Hard-working people. All of a sudden, at a crossroads, so to speak.
Because of the fairly severe nature of our infraction, we often rush into a solution – attempting to regain lost ground, lost happiness, lost opportunity. It is far better, in my opinion, to use patience and conscious effort to rethink, reprioritize and then finally to recommit to a different path.
There are a million ways to do this. The essence, however, is to follow the three simple steps – rethink, reprioritize and recommit.
A special thank you to Petrina who commented yesterday, and shared a process that helped her rethink.
Mid Life Celebration is:
You may not realize this yet, but if you read Mid Life Celebration regularly, and especially if you’ve read every post – going back to when this conversation first appeared on the Internet, then you know a tribe is gathering and being formed here.
Internet tribes are helping change the world shape a better tomorrow.
What if we could look forward to death? Since we look forward to all the other major life events – birth, adolescence, marriage, retirement – why not death?
I mean seriously, it’s not like it’s not going to happen.
Pink Floyd is one of those bands that crosses generations in it’s popularity, and there is a line from one of their songs, “Is there anybody out there.”
Reflecting back on yesterday’s post, that question, and then that song, just popped my mind.
Is there anybody out there who wants to share insights on dying well?
If we do some advance work, the event itself won’t be an overwhelming event that devastates us.
Any takers?
How often do we spend time taking a moment looking ahead?
Not talking about mid-morning, trying to decide where to go for lunch and with whom, even though that can qualify as an important decision.
Rather, looking ahead ten years.
What?
It’s hard isn’t it? That’s why we rarely, if ever, give it considerable thought.
Considerable thought.
Substantial thought.
The long and hard discussion with ourselves about our future.
It’s like reaching the top of Maslow’s pyramid.
I’ll be spending several precious days with a couple of 80-somethings. Wonder what we’ll talk about.