Category: Recommit

Four leading indicators we observe in people who are trying hard

iTunes Screen shot Building 429
Thrivers won’t be shaken.

 

Four leading indicators we observe in people who are trying hard:

  1. they make more mistakes than safety seekers
  2. they often delay fun activities because there’s work to be done
  3. they always find joy in smaller things because that’s all their time permits
  4. you have noticed for a long time they make fewer and fewer excuses

When told by people demonstrating great life balance, thriving is a completely different vibe than the one told by those seeking it.

Literally everything we have been told about joy is not the way it actually works.

Only a thriver knows this.

We are all born to thrive.

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When we focus on the hassles in our life, this one thing plummets out of control

Store front named Lofty Ambitions in Hamilton, ON
What kills our lofty ambitions?

 

When we focus on the hassles in our life, our self awareness plummets. And our attitude is poisoned. By midlife, we should see this coming each morning.

And each morning, as a person of wisdom and experience, we should prepare to battle the temptations to live with this toxicity. And not do it.

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We all know the answer to this common midlife dilemma

Mid Life Celebration book and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame marque
How audacious is it to think you could start a movement that would change things?

 

This quote struck me while sitting in a Cleveland hotel room, sipping the morning’s first cup of coffee.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
– William Stafford

We all know why we stop. We don’t share the same exact reason, but we do all pick from the same generic list of excuses.

It took me 30 years to write the first sentence for Mid Life Celebration: rethink • reprioritize • recommit.

Took two more years to finish it.

Took two more years after that to get the guts to commit to publishing.

I get what you get and hear what you hear and fear what you fear, but kept going anyway.

Here’s to you.

(click the link below to get to the horrific Saddam Hussain post told by my cab driver)

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Our attitude around living and dying determines how we…

Inspiring note about living
Paying attention to nuance and detail – unspeakable blessing or a curse?

 

Today will be another in an endless list of days. Yet for some, the end will arrive today. A few are expecting it. Fewer still have prepared for it. Most will be caught by surprise.

The value of a day?

Ask a person who is counting theirs.

Our attitude around living and dying determines how we live each day, and perhaps, each moment.

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