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Mid Life Rebirth?

Do you like Springtime? Perhaps it’s the joy of the warmer weather. Or all the flowering trees.

Or maybe it’s gentle, passing thoughts of rebirth.

Everywhere you look, nature’s wintery dormancy is giving way to rebirth. Nature reminds us that there are cycles in life. But these glorious reminders come and go fairly quickly. And we forget them.

In my monthly travels, it’s easy to see rebirth happening everywhere, like here in Albuquerque the past two days.

But it’s harder, if not invisible, to see rebirth happening in people, particularly those experiencing midlife.

And I can’t figure out why. Do you know why?

The World’s Problems

Do you know TED – Ideas Worth Sharing?

Adora is a child-speaker prodigy. She is 12, yet speaks with a wsidom that belies her age.

The world’s problems should not be our Families’ heirloom.

What are you doing to clean things up?

It ain’t gonna happen by magic.

Major Mid Life April Fool?

Mid Life Celebration has now been writing five daily blogs for one year.

This is not an April Fool’s joke (although the timing is perfect).

I remember how it all started. March 2009. Our 2nd-grade son was questioning why he had to read aloud 20 minutes every day.

“If you want to be a good reader, you need to read a lot”, I said.

Then I continued, “You know I’m training for the World Championships, right? If I want to be a good runner, I need to run a lot.”

Then, the flash of light!

“If you want to be a good writer, you should write a lot.”

What started as a simple 100-day challenge to write daily, in the five blogs, has turned into a heretical marketing and brand value proposition.

It All Goes By So Fast

What If We Felt This Way About Our Life?

Time marches on.

We ignore this out of fear.

We fear it it because it’s unknown.

It’s unknown because we don’t explore it, don’t study it.

Because we are ignorant, we remain fearful.

And because we’re afraid, we set no lofty goals. No plans to do great work that makes a difference in our world.

It’s like washing our hair.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Like going through the motions.

Then we die.

It all goes by so fast.

Surprising Jimmy Stewart Midlife Poem

Thank you for visiting Mid Life Celebration. I know most of you are insanely busy. How? Because I’m one of you. It’s also easy to predict that most of you will not have time to click on this video, especially if you’re reading from a handheld device.

So this is for the others. The few. The ones who know full well that life is hard and that carving out time has to be some one’s responsibility.

Did you watch the sunset last night? Or the sunrise this morning?

Time marches on. This is a beautiful story. Just like last night’s sunset. But you really have no idea do you?