Peace In Your Soul – Page 11 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Midlife Milestones

As we go through life, we have obvious opportunities and some not so obvious. Have you ever considered this as part of your reality?

Many of the biggest opportunities happen at midlife. What we do when they arrive makes all the difference.

And the most overlooked, and inexpensive, opportunity to keep motivation alive is to celebrate milestones along the way. They come in three sizes: small, medium and large.

Yesterday I promised a few of mine, in an effort to practice the preaching. And by the way, all within the past 72 hours:

309 pages of raw content (not blog related)
Met with CPA
Ran 5 miles without any foot pain
Eight hours of sleep for 7 consecutive days
347 straight days of starting each day on my knees

Do you find time to celebrate your milestones, no matter their size? What if you did.

Mid Life Pace

Happy Friday everyone and thank you for visiting Mid Life Celebration. Ever work really hard for a really long time and wonder how you’ll keep your pace going?

What many great leaders do is celebrate the journey, not just reaching the final goal. They learn the power of celebrating milestones.

In our personal and professional lives, we face this same challenge. How to keep a fast and steady pace to accomplish all that’s expected of us.

The secret? Celebrate milestones. Are you familiar with this concept?

Milestones are what you make them. There is no science to it, other than to simply find things to celebrate and feel good about, because the goal is to keep your midlife pace going.

The alternative is to lose interest and quit.

Tomorrow, I’ll share a few Mid Life Celebration milestones and invite you to share some of your own.

Careful What You Wish For

Dream impossible dreams.

To infinity and beyond.

Anything is possible.

Carpe diem.

No regrets.

The sky’s the limit.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Reach for the stars.

Be careful what you wish for.

Midlife Ambition

Isn’t that what leads us to the proverbial midlife crisis?

Ambition. Can’t live with it. Can’t live without it.

Or can we? Live without it, I mean.

And maybe not live without it, but alter the course of our ambition.

I mean, alter it from selfish to selfless.

And by selfish, I don’t mean to say it’s wrong to be professionally ambitious.

And by selfless, I don’t mean we should sell all our belongs and live with just the shirt on our back.

But there is this rare opportunity, at it’s peak in mid life, that we can really get serious about where we currently are and where we ultimately want to end up.

Most likely, at midlife, these are two diametrically opposed paths.

None At Midlife

There is no peace without forgiveness. No happiness without peace.

Watching the Winter Olympics this past weekend with our son (9), there was a special segment about 9/11, and the role that Gander (Canada) played in clearing American airspace.

It hit me very hard that our son had no clue what 9/11 was.

Shame on me.

Of course a mini history lesson began. You know what his first reaction was to the loss of 3,000 innocent lives and mass destruction?

Revenge. Typical human, emotional behavior. You and I have to exercise self-control, even in the worst of conditions.

Otherwise, there is none at midlife.