Life Transition (Dec 2014) – Page 4 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Best to live with a very low degree of intentionally?

(photo: Long term, stocks historically outperform everything else… the luck of timing increases over time)

The things we did yesterday, those we do today and tomorrow – these are the very things that affect our future options.

Same goes with the things we leave undone.

We know this.

Yet we live with a very low degree of intentionally.

Why?

Because it’s uncomfortable to be focused? To be disciplined?

For example, in two days Apple is making an announcement, probably the new iPhone reveal.

How cool is it that a product unveiling could become an amazingly exciting event? One in which many in the world become giddy.

Is anything in our life worthy of a big, highly anticipated announcement?

Anything in our life worthy of giddiness?

What if it were?

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PS. An announcement is forthcoming here. Stay tuned. No specific timeline though. It could be days. Maybe months. But no more than that.

Noticing midlife celebration

(photo: Spring Grove, Pennsylvania… out for run yesterday, September 5, 2014)

Long ago, someone noticed a spring surrounded by large groves.

So simple.

So fundamental.

Maybe even a bit ridiculous.

Really, we’re going to name the town Spring Grove?

Some things just seem obvious, and yet, they also seem ridiculous.

Akin to ‘the only constant is change’.

Whatever, right?

Not banking on (and investing heavily in) change is the prerequisite for a midlife crisis.

Knowing this now, we can confidently move forward planning for everything to change.

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Dang writer’s flood

(photo: Three Mile Island as we drive from Harrisburg, PA Airport to Spring Grove, PA yesterday)

Overwhelmed by the quiet magnitude of returning to our birthplace can, and should, be a grand homecoming.

Yet what if the ~~overwhelming~~ underlying feeling was anxiety?

Issues that have been lying under the surface for half a century, maybe longer.

Then what?

Balance offers a decent remedy.

A great attitude, a healthy body, a peaceful spirit, a professional approach to real world issues, and an organized set of good and decent priorities.

But who has time for balance?

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Believing in nothing is as dangerous as believing

(photo: Cleaning the office closet last night… resurrecting the launch materials)

Believing in nothing is as dangerous as believing.

Who’s right?

The non-believer or the believer?

Who has full authority and final say?

Live and let live.

Right?

Either believe in being positive all the time or not.

Learn to love your beliefs and learn to trust them explicitly.

Leaving room for doubt is as dangerous as leaving none.

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Writer’s flood is a blessing and a curse

(photo: The cabin loft looking into the bedroom, early morning, Labor Day weekend)

Writer’s flood is a blessing and a curse. But mostly a blessing.

Rarely, like today, is it a curse.

Still have a million observations from the Labor Day fraternity reunion in the North Carolina mountains.
Heading ‘home’ to Spring Grove, Pennsylvania tomorrow to see family.
The logistics of an imminent life change are also flooding the idea generator.

A bountiful midlife harvest?

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