Tag: Book

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure

Insanely popular for the right audience.
Insanely popular for the right audience.

 

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The upper left caption wins glowing accolades.

 

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Some love this, some hate it.

 

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. The paradox of yesterday’s dislike for a simple concept is paradoxically highlighted by one of Mid Life Celebration’s first book reviews:

I read the book this morning, and as expected, it is fantastic! Having read Jeff’s blogs for quite some time, there are a lot of familiar themes in the book, and it is great to have them together in one spot.

What stuck with me was a simple sentence that Jeff sprinkles throughout the book. “We know this.” There are a lot of lessons that are shared, and ideas to help us be better, that at the core are simple things that we really do know. We just may not be paying attention to them, or they may be drowned out by the other things in our lives. Taking the time to “rethink, reprioritize, and recommit” helps us see that we know what we need to do. We just have to get the clutter out of the way.

Having just seen the Disney Institute video of Jeff speaking about the CEO of You, Inc., it was neat to see that idea carry across his day job and his passion.

The video Brian speaks of is here.

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Thank you for purchasing, reading, and reviewing Mid Life Celebration

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Renewed yesterday, Jan 11. The real MBA comes when you manage your own business administration.

 

The wait is over. After 46 consecutive five-star reviews, the first non-five star.

Two stars.

Ecstatic to finally get some critical feedback. Seriously. It’s wonderful.

“A very quick read that gets to the heart of mid life. I was a little bothered that the author kept saying ‘you know this.’ All I kept thinking was, then why the heck am I reading this book if I already know it.”

So grateful to the person for investing their money to purchase, investing their time to read and their time to review.

The author could have said in the book, but did’t, that it was written to his young son as a life guide in case something bad ever happened to the dad.

The author (dad) was being intentionally repetitious with the reminder to his son, “You know this.” Yet the dad also is keenly aware of human nature:

To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know.

So grateful. For everything.

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Why is this relevant to what happens to you today?

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Why would “living like you mean it” be relevant to what happens to you today?

Should we have a personal battle cry for easy access to our daily inspiration?

As CEO of You, Inc, we create what makes us successful.

And we intuitively understand how repetition creates our habits.

Repetition creates habits.

Habits are in our control.

Habits make us or break us.

Weirdly enough, we know this yet do little, if anything, to change.

Why?

Because change is hard and routine is easy.

The repetition of a simple, direct, balanced, lofty approach has the power to influence.

But only through repetition.

Finished reading Mid Life Celebration for the 25th time on the return flight home yesterday.

The number represents reading of the published paperback or Kindle version. It does not include the many readings of the unpublished work.

This book is as short and sweet and powerful as they come.

“An inspirational wakeup call in about an hour.”

Over and over again.

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Out of the midlife ashes, hope rises

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(photo: The Hyatt, built 1984, was here when we (the person below) met in 1990, but State Road 535 was still a little two lane country road.)

Yesterday morning a social media note:

Good morning! I wanted to tell you that I am re-reading your book. Reading slowly this time. I value it so differently this time. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

Asked a few questions and in reply:

I truly have tears in my eyes right now. I was not in a good place when I read it the first time and I knew you were telling me something but I just wasnt getting it. I was resisting change. I now have the strength to appreciate it. Thriving not survivng. I am so thankful that I knew you because I hear your voice speaking to me when I read it. Stuck on pages 7 and 14!

At the end of the day, the book leans towards being a kick in the ass butt. And we all need that a few times in life.

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