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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Focus, discipline, mastery
What would it take to achieve and then maintain for a lifetime, a positive mental attitude? An attitude which could not be broken under any circumstance.
A critical success factor would have to be self-control.
This could be the missing piece for those of us who think being positive all the time is impossible.
Oh, and patience. Patience is also critical. Why? Because it may take 40 to 50 years to become an an overnight success – speaking from personal experience.
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(photo: Two young souls riding their great Uncle’s back. If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.)
Today, December 30, 13 years ago, was the final drinking day.
What fool would pick New Year’s Eve to be the first dry day?
No one, right?
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(photo: Who are those people?)
While unwrapping gifts yesterday our son (14) said, “I’m going to say this at your funeral, ‘My Dad avoided answering a lot of questions’.”
Is this intentional or by default?
Great professional speakers know if they tell an audience the answer, the audience will never remember. And if the facilitator helps the audience discover the answer themselves, they will never forget.
By design or by default?
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Would you stop what you believe in because others are annoyed?
One of my jobs is to think differently and challenge others to do the same. Not tell them how to think, only to try, right now, to do it differently. That’s my hippocratic classroom oath. Saying that to say this…
A Huffington Post article was emailed to Mid Life Celebration yesterday, and the reading began. Almost couldn’t finish. From a rare (which is the DNA of thinking differently) angle, it could be somewhat disturbing.
The author was going on and on about what other people would think of her New Year’s proclamation of wearing a bikini come Summer.
If Jenny Trout’s goal was to create a buzz to get folks to read Huffington Post (Huff Post loves when that happens by the way), she nailed it. It is a business for goodness sakes. No harm, no foul. Bravo even.
Yet there’s a part of us deep down inside that has to wonder, “What if Jenny just did what is suggested here, and canned all this bikini stuff?”
Maybe wisdom, intellect, insight, paradox, and business aren’t as sacred as we had hoped.
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We acknowledge that habit development happens over time. And those habits are formed from two sources.
Desire or a lack of desire.
What this means to each of us is up to us.
The fact the some of us will stop and ponder this and find meaning or that some of us will not give this a second thought are both habits.
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Insight: Some habits are embedded as children. Taking pictures of everyday life has been a habit of mine since my very first plastic camera that came free with a the purchase of a full tank of gas circa 1968.
Never owned a Jaguar, nor plan to.