Mental invisibility

Mental vibrancy habits are invisible. This is why mental vibrancy is considered a myth.

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No one sees the work mentally vibrant people do. This is why positivity and unwavering optimism seems nearly impossible.

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On being an elder, mentally

Mountains
GNP webcam, mid-February.

Embrace your crazy thinking. For me, it’s my salvation.

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One year at Disney, for an entire year, i wrote everything, personally and professionally, without using “i, me, my, mine”.

Can you imagine?

Not in emails.

Not in texts.

Not on social media posts or comments.

Not to clients, bosses, colleagues.

Not in 1,825 annual blog posts.

Dude, for 365 consecutive days.

Do you have any idea the intentionality, the over-focusing, on this?

Try doing it for a day.

If you succeed, try for two consecutive days.

Make that?

Try a week, a month, a quarter, a year.

It’s insane.

That’s why no one does it.

But if you were an exception to the rule, how do you think doing the impossible, the ludicrous, the remarkably different would impact your thinking?

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Flowers in a bottle
Moroccan stromatolite on left. Madagascar stromatolite on the right, also known as Kambaba Jasper when green. If you zoom in on the green, you will see the center rings.

Repetition is the mother of all learning.

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Same day, different hemisphere, mind

Apple Watch calendar event
We left our Apartment at 4:30 AM for the 10:05 AM flight.
Airport flight board
Last line is our first flight, Brisbane to Sydney.
6-second video: Brisbane to Sydney. Sydney to Los Angeles, LA to Walt Disney World.

Having time and money to travel is humbling.

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Factoring in the 15-hour time difference, left our apartment at 1:30pm Orlando time, Feb 11.

Estimating we will reach our front door around 9:30pm Feb 12.

A 32-hour one-way trip.

Three flights, each way.

Three weeks ‘down under’.

No place like home.

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Fly home from Australia, mind

Mountain cafe parking
Lookout Cafe opens at 8:00 AM on Sundays.
Woman in the mountains
Waiting for 8:00 AM “rope drop”.
11-second video: Steve Erwin, Lookout Cafe, and three Kangaroos. Our last meal together. Incredible karma. Seeing Kangaroos in the wild. They graced your presence for 30 minutes.

Give them roots and give them wings.

Sage parental wisdom

We hugged our Son for the last time for the next six months. New territory for us.

He’s 15 time zones away.

He is in a safe community.

Which reminded me…

God bless Military families.

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