Tag: Busy

Funny how busy we get when we least expect it

Air travel itinerary
It’s been a very busy year with travel

 

Funny how busy we get when we least expect it.

Our attitude is then faced with a choice.

Complain.

Or not.

Be grateful we are alive to have such challenges.

And be grateful our challenges aren’t much, much worse or more complicated.

Attitude.

Pretty sure it is everything.

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Does this holiday promise sound familiar?

Christmas tress and palm trees
Waiting to get our tree packaged for transport home…. a surreal moment with the palm trees

 

Christmas tree setup in Orlando
Thanksgiving weekend has become the new Christmas tree setup tradition

 

Today is the second Sunday of Advent. Last year I said this year wouldn’t be as busy and we would be more relaxed to enjoy the reason for the season.

Guess again.

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Like it or not, good news and bad news follows us constantly

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There’s a time and a place for this. How do we transform when we are crystal clear?

 

Like it or not, good news and bad news follows us constantly. We are so stinking busy most days (years, even decades) that we get blinded to the reality that everybody is in the same boat.

So reminded of that today (11.12.13 – Nov 12, 2013) as the year-end holidays, and work challenges that go along with this time of year, that much of the world is in overdrive trying to survive and celebrate simultaneously.

This fact provides solace to one who has given herself permission to step up and be a positive catalyst the herd so desperately needs.

The herd is the majority, going through the motions. Until the final breath.

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Father Son Traditions

Yesterday, you heard a promise.  Here it is, the traditions a mid life Father put in place, using a lion’s share of midlife creativity.  It would be easy to discount their value, because they are so simple.

  1. Bear Hug
  2. One, two, three
  3. Twistee Treat Day
  4. Food For Families
  5. Dinner Prayer
  6. You’ll never get in trouble for being honest
  7. If you lined up all the boys in the world….

What simple, repeatable traditions do is ingrain key messages.  Simple messages.  Life altering messages.

While we are insanely busy, we all have one life to live. We ought to be insanely thankful for that, and then set out to make the most of it.

PS.  If you regularly follow Mid Life Celebration, you already know there’s a really strong chance each tradition will be explained in future posts, maybe as soon as tomorrow.  And if f you’re new here, welcome.