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Mid Life Thursday

Mid Life Thursday.  We’ve been living in central Florida for 25 years.  We even live within a couple miles of Disney’s Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Epcot Theme Parks.

Disney is the area’s biggest employer. and at Disney World, Thursday is payday.  Some 60,000 pay checks every week, I think.

There are acronyms for the Disney Theme Parks.  Take E – P – C – O – T:

  • Employee Paychecks Come on Thursday
  • Every Person Comes Out Tired
  • Every Parent Carries One Toddler
  • Experimental Polyester Costumes Of Torture

People have wild imaginations to figure these acronyms out.

I’d wanted to apply that same creativity and fun into figuring out my mid life crisis.

So, I tried.  Here’s what I came up with back in the 1990’s – Mid Life Celebration.

Have fun today.  Use your mid life imagination.  And your mid life fun factor.

And make it a GREAT Thursday.  If not today, when?

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Mid Life Wednesday

Mid Life Wednesday. Hump day is the traditional term many Americans use to describe the middle day of the work week.

Just get over the hump. Get through Wednesday. Then the weekend will be almost here.

There have been jobs in my life where I felt like that and jobs where I didn’t.

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night.  In between, I occupy myself as best I can”. — Cary Grant

Mid life is sort of like hump day.  We try to get through life as best we can. If we’re careful, we can get to mid life and have a good grasp on who we are and where we’re headed.

However, if you’re like me, you’ll find yourself asking, “Is this all there is? There’s got to be more”.

Whether it’s hump day, Monday, Friday or even the weekend, I promise to live in the moment.  As best I can, I make that promise with good intentions.

What I have discovered, by the way, is that there is so much more than I ever thought was possible.

I’m the CEO of Me, Inc.

Same with you. It’s up to you to feel this way. Mid life is about accepting responsibility for your outcomes and then working very hard to choose the right path for the outcomes you seek.

Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

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Mid Life Tuesday

Mid Life Tuesday. Two-fer Tuesday.

During my college years 1977 – 1983, there was a classic rock station in Philadelphia, WMMR 93.3. Zeppelin, The Who, Doors, Rolling Stones, Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Genesis, Foghat, CCR, BTO, ELO, REO, Bad Company, Black Sabbath – you get the picture.

Tuesdays were a double shot, or two songs by the same artist for the price of one. Here ya go, two-fer Tuesday:

“One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness; not a mere rushing on”. — D. H. Lawrence

“I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy”. — Joseph Heller

Makes me wonder,  “How many people are walking around, just a few steps away from a meltdown”?

If we can’t learn to be still, we can’t heal ourselves from the mid life crisis that leads to going crazy.

If not today, when? If not this week, when? If not this month, when? This year? Then when?

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Mid Life Monday

Mid Life Monday. Don’t you just love Mondays?

I do. And no, I’m not crazy. Okay, well maybe I am.

But anyway, back to the point. I love Mondays. And Tuesdays. And every day that ends with “day”.  🙂

“Next week there can’t be any crisis. My schedule is already full”.  — Henry Kissinger

Why do so many think of Monday morning as a crisis?

I guess when we’re dead, we won’t have to worry about Mondays any more.

Won’t that be great?

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Mid Life Sunday

Mid Life Sunday. A time for rest.

“By letting go, it all gets done; the world is won by those who let it go”. — The Tao Te Ching

Yeah right. Ever seen my schedule? It’s probably like yours. Packed. Jam packed.

I like this quote, yet struggle with it’s simplicity because it’s so challenging to let go when there is so much to be done.

Ya with me? “Can I get an “Amen” for being crazy busy and knowing it’s important to slow down”?

Maybe that’s it? Maybe I worry about doing too much. But then, what happens if I don’t worry about it?

I often wonder if a farmer could be successful, sustainable, without worrying about so many things.

I seriously doubt it.

It’s one of life’s burdens we all have to learn how to carry.  Guess it’s a good thing I go to the gym.

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