Death is often the tipping point for a life crisis

hippie sign
From lunch yesterday. And not only hippies but the crazy ones, the outliers, the misfits – you know, the ones who openly and enthusiastically talk about death.

 

Death is often the tipping point for a life crisis.

Why?

My theory is too much goes unspoken while we’re alive.

 

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It’s called our comfort zone for a reason

GapinVoid art
Fav cartoonist High MacLeod.

 

i remind our Son (17) of this frequently…

The paradox of dreaming is that our dreams turn out worse than or better than we expect.

No one has a crystal ball to get it just right.

What works comfortably for us also blinds us to what’s possible.

It’s called our comfort zone for a reason.

To add fuel to the fire for maintaining our status quo is the insidious way our past and our present rob us of what’s possible.

 

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Permission to try anything and everything

risk takers
Seth Godin made this. Outliers, misfits, crazy-people to the left. Risk-adverse, conformists to the right.

 

Doing routine, mindless administrative stuff (stuffing envelopes for a classroom activity) at work yesterday, a thought…

 

i’m no longer working to make a living, i’m working to make a difference.

 

This changes, and refines, my attitude about selling.

She who can walk away always has the edge.

Who doesn’t enjoy having an edge?

i am sitting on a current situation where two big opportunities are in front of me.

Both situations have CEOs who are struggling with the price.

No worries.

i can’t force someone to see value instead of expense.

And if it’s too risky for them, it’s not too risky for me – to thank them for their time, wish them well, and then walk away.

Entrepreneurs have no guarantees anything they do will work.

And they have their own permission to try anything and everything.

So cool.

 

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Who’s the most important member of your mental fitness team?

Epcot parking lot marker
Yesterday…lunch at Epcot. Epcot’s brand is Discovery. Magic Kingdom’s is Fantasy.

 

Who’s the most important member of your mental fitness team?

You are.

Who else can get regular exercise, adequate rest, balanced nutrition for you?

Who else can determine your core spiritual beliefs, and your level of conviction and participation?

Who else can determine your work ethic, career goals, risk tolerance, commitment to excellence and resilience?

Who else can organize your home-life processes and structure for “the paperwork of life”?

Go.

Be well.

 

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The problem is not the real problem

Quotes
Eight years ago.

 

 

The problem is not the real problem.

The problem isn’t having new ideas.

Humans are born to build their lives on new ideas.

It’s in our DNA.

Ideas build our foundation as we enter adulthood and carve out a life independent from our parents.

The challenge is terminating old ideas which were once new but are now old.

And because they’re old, let’s assume we’ve been incorporating these ideas into our daily lives long enough to have created the deeply embedded habits we call daily life.

 

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