Tag: Crazy

How crazy is too crazy?

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Yesterday at 8:45am Mass.

 

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i practiced from this piece of paper. After 58 years on our planet, 30 years at Disney, 18 years as a speaker and advisor, i consider myself decently grounded and focused. To teach is to learn twice.

 

How crazy is too crazy?

Las Vegas has deeply stirred our Nation’s emotions.

In an effort to manage my attitude, physical health, spiritual wellbeing, work quality, and home karma, i write to process on paper what i cannot find another way to process.

We commit slow personal injury to ourselves, often leading to premature “death” of our attitude, health, spirit, career, and home life, when we do these things day in and day out:

  1. Watch, read, and listen to media and people who poison our mind
  2. Eat and drink whatever we want, and find sitting a life-time activity
  3. Avoid a community of like-minded believers and secretly hate many things and people
  4. Blame, criticize, and accuse (often silently) others of holding us back at work
  5. Become attached to things, memories, and status quo

We are killing ourselves so quietly and so slowly, it’s the ultimate assassination.

And to medicate, distract, and entertain ourselves, we pick up our social media microphone and broadcast our (mostly) self-righteous, grand-standing, American values, and blah, blah, blah…

You want to get pissed off and offended about something to the point of taking a stand and taking action?

Address and remedy 1-5 above.

Then, and only then, would it make sense that yours is a voice worth listening to.

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Counting down 3, 2, 1

Baby wearing headphones
Two nights ago at State Final Basketball game. What dreams from our childhood do we still cherish?

 

Counting down 3, 2, 1…

Today, tomorrow, and then my 57th birthday.

Three days from now the decade-long journey becomes more real.

Odds are decent i’ll live past 60, but it’s not a 100% guarantee.

This is why i boldly declared committed to pursuing a 10-year dream to do everything in life i want to do, as if turning 60 was my last day on earth.

In three days, there are only three years remaining.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

It’s a slow, arduous, self-conscious journey

Disney's attention to detail
Disney’s Animal Kingdom…the highway number represents the month and year the Park opened. Guests, and even most Cast Members, have no idea.

 

i spend a lot of time wondering what’s possible.

So i ask myself, “If you could train yourself to become 100% comfortable pushing yourself all day, every day, what would change?”

Wow.

The flood of possibilities.

Simultaneously, i think about my obligation (intentional word choice…obligation is a strong word) to push others.

Again, the (staggering) possibilities blow my mind.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Million reasons why we never saw it before – a list a mile long no doubt

 

Lloimonincia Hall, an LSO sophomore, just changed the way gymnastics is presented.

She took a risk.

With a heart full of passion.

Million reasons why we never saw it before – a list a mile long, no doubt.

Including you might get banned, or kicked off the team.

What does this mean to any of us?

Everyone told the beginning blogger to focus on one blog.

No one is going to get five interconnected blogs.

Art only becomes art when it is done freely, with unstoppable passion.

You, reading this, are an artist.

But you may not believe it.

(Find a million reasons to believe it. The best time to start was yesterday. The next best time is today.)

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What To Say If People Tell You You’re Crazy

If you read carefully, it sounds like Walt Disney may have been a cry baby.

Ever thought what your response would be if someone told you you’re crazy? I have. Long and hard. The answer finally came, “Thank you”.

Note: Midlife Celebration is about our attitude. And so is our response to what appears like criticism.

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