This is not a blog about happiness.
It’s a blog about mental attitude and i just happen to be incredibly grateful which makes me happy, and positive.
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This is not a blog about happiness
Tag: Blogging
Promises made equal promises broken
Imagine taking 30 years to fulfill a promise to ourselves (and our family).
That’s how long it took me.
The guilt would come and go until it literally it disappeared altogether.
Thank goodness for a serious midlife wakeup call.
Baby Boomers suffer from chronic self-bullying.
Lies.
Inspiring promises we made to ourselves but never kept. Never delivered on.
Imagine a rose bush full of wonderful buds, but for some reason, the buds never open. Ever.
The original promise was in 1979 as a college Junior. “i promise to write a book about the most important things in life, for my children”.
i never intended to become a prolific blogger. In fact, it was consistent failure (and not writing consistently) that led to a crazy, self-imposed writing challenge on April Fools Day 2009… write five differently-themed blogs (about balance) for 100 straight days.
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We have these moments in life that surprise us at first
The following is from two nights ago…decided it is blog worthy today…
Typing this in the dark.
We have these moments in life that surprise us at first but then they don’t.
Lying in bed right now, on this Easter Sunday night, a moment.
And the thing is, our little moments are insignificant to the rest of the world.
But they astonish us.
Six years ago, couldn’t write my way out of a wet paper bag.
But started writing anyway. And as a result, in just five more days, the 11,000th blog post will go public.
Relish your insignificant moments, because no one else will.
But that doesn’t mean your moment isn’t significant.
It is.
And use your moment to create more moments.
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Five days away from the five-a-day milestone
(photo: After six years, still don’t have a business card. Ordered some yesterday.)
Five days away from the five-a-day milestone. The key insight is this:
Our path never plays out the way we dream. It’s either better or worse. Our job is keep moving forward.
We can never make progress if we stop.
Duh.
Sounds so logical.
Yet why do we quit so soon after we begin these ambitious journeys?
And what happens to the folks who refuse to quit?
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Very first Mid Life Celebration blog post was six years ago
The first Midlife Celebration posts were six years ago – November 2008.
Who cares right?
Like most bloggers when it started it was supposed to be every day… you know the standard, “Come back tomorrow for more stuff.”
Never happened.
Not for the rest of that month nor for December.
So guess what the New Year’s resolution was? That’s right, blog every day.
Never happened. Not in January, not in February, not in March.
And like an idiot, promised it was all going to be different starting April Fools’ Day 2009.
Of course it was.
But something strange happened. The first day was easy because it was the first day of the new promise.
But then it was five more posts the next day and five more posts the day after that. Heck, even made it seven days in a row – 35 posts.
And then the craziest darn thing you could ever imagine. Wrote five daily posts every day the second week, the third week, fourth fifth sixth seventh, etc.
Miraculously, five different blogs every day for all 100 days.
Something transformational happened in those 100 days and the thought of stopping on the 101st day seems weirdly unthinkable.
April Fools’ Day 2009 was 2048 days ago.
Remarkable.
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