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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Are you a midlife addiction enabler?
This article will help you determine your relative standing in either being an enabler or not being an enabler.
Because of the powerful, yet sensitive nature of this content, most will look the other way.
Hope to see you back again tomorrow.
My goal is to enable you to Rethink, Reprioritize and Recommit.
Fair enough?
Have you ever done something you weren’t supposed to do? And in order to do it, you had to do it in a sneaky way? And often, there was a close friend who had already done the thing, and they helped you?
Smoking, drinking, stealing, bad pranks, and so on.
Seriously, these are things adults do not make a conscious effort to teach children. Can you imagine a Mother saying, “Come here son, it’s time you learned how to smoke cigarettes.”
Heard a Chantix commercial last night. Chantix helps smokers quit. Let me set the scene:
Mom comes on saying, “I smoked a pack a day for 25 years. I could not quit smoking, no matter how hard I tried.”
Until one day……
“I told my son to promise me he would never start smoking.”
He said, “Promise me you’ll quit.”
And the Cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon. Little boy blue and the man in the moon……he turned out just like me…..my boy was just like me….
Mid Life Saturday. Finally, the weekend is here.
“Always do one less thing than you think you can do”. — Bernard Baruch
Brilliant!
Except for one thing. I’m human. Humans are perfect. Perfectly imperfect.
The odds of me scaling back are fairly slim. Not impossible, but stacked against me.
Why? Because of habits.
That’s the biggest mid-life challenge. Redefining our mid life habits.
That’s why the tag line here at Mid Life Celebration is: Rethink. Reprioritize. Recommit.
I’m not talking about casual changes, or token changes, but about serious, life altering changes.
As Mid Life Celebration matures, I’ll be revealing more personal examples of how my life has changed.
As a prelude, you may find it surprising to know that I’ve overcome addiction, disability, and a host of other things people have no clue about.
That’s why I can preach about this stuff. I’ve been to the gates of hell. I gauran-dang-tee you, I hated it.
Is it getting hot in here or am I sweating?
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