What’s missing from life

Five year old boy on beach
Are you smarter than a five-year old? Photo: Our son on Sanibel Island, 2005.

What’s missing from life?

Personally, at 60, this is the list of what was missing for 50 years. Now, this is a list of must-have’s i use to daily create peace and contentment:

  • Present
  • Mindful
  • Motivated

We come to know the true meaning of our birthday when we learn to celebrate it every day.

What does this mean?

It means most of what we do is driven by a sense of obligation – and/or the avoidance of shame – rather than deeply embedded, constant, intentional thoughts of gratitude.

Gratitude at any time, anywhere.

Every day.

All day.

Don’t send flowers on Valentine’s Day. In fact, that’s the last day i want you to send anything.

The assumption is you easily understand this riff and totally get it.

While it was weird not celebrating Easter two days ago in Church, the other 364 days of Easter celebration (yes, celebrate everyday, just like your birthday) easily compensated for the non-traditional “observation”.

We come to know the true meaning of Easter when we learn to celebrate it everyday.

Don’t go to Church on Easter. Everyone expects that. Make Church every step you take.

Never send stuff on Valentine’s Day.

Deliver hand-picked roadside flowers in an old glass container. Share i-love-you cards or notes any time and especially during ordinary time – because Valentine’s Day (a day of Love) is every day.

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Initiate thinking

Disney Institute speaker jeff noel
October 2014, the final month with Disney. A lifetime Disney career, surrounded by multitudes of people.

The monotony of the Covid-19 global self-quarantine opportunity is a first in the history of humankind.

It’s a gift.

It’s a panic-inducing event of epic proportions for the unprepared.

Most people are woefully unprepared.

For the prepared – and they deserve no shame nor guilt – it is the chance of a lifetime.

When we change what we see, what we see changes.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein, 1933

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Well-played, well-lived

rainbow in mountain landscape
East side Glacier National Park near Two Medicine.

Life, well lived, is long enough.

Seneca

We often chase after things that don’t matter. We do not understand this until after we get them. This is called a midlife crisis. Be careful. Read this if you are in the midst of a life crisis now.

Live well, with intention, with purpose, and over-focus on the things you used to under-focus on or ignore.

For example, if you love to write, but don’t, figure it out.

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Unexpected joy from being sober

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park, hiking to Ptarmigan Tunnel, and looking back where i had been.

Unexpected joy from being sober.

Sober people at a party or event are stereotyped as boring, stiff, serious.

The real stereotype is this: focused, disciplined, fun, spontaneous, in control, uninhibited, confident, creative, strong.

No competitive artist in any genre ever performs spectacularly when drinking.

None.

Strength, confidence, excitement = sober.

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Panicked mindset?

comic about covid-19
Thank you Covid-19 for showing us how weird people can be when panicked.

Panicked mindset?

Yes, for most.

Why?

Unorganized life.

Unorganized mindset.

This would have been me 15-20 years ago.

The gift to unorganized people is the wakeup call they are experiencing.

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