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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(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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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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It is done.
This is the final post to complete five straight years – 1,826 days to be exact.
Too busy to run this morning, or write.
Now, mid morning, sitting at Starbucks in Epcot, writing this.
Humble beginnings five years ago.
Humble endings now with each iPhone keyboard click.
And tomorrow, what’s next?
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Eight days until April Fool’s Day. A day most of us will see come and go without fanfare.
Yet it’s a day for misfits and crazy people.
Like us.
To the very special group of crazies that not only know how to navigate all five blogs, but also read them – thank you.
What keeps you coming back?
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Is it possible that in ten days MLC will have posted five daily, differently-themed blogs for five consecutive years?
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