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Easy and ease, mind

Ease isn’t easy until it is.

Easy is for routine stuff. Say walking.

But walking was desperately hard as a newborn. Yet after a year or so relentlessly trying we only take a single step.

Fast forward to your life today.

Consistently walking with purpose (not a stroll), for a purpose (health, errand, social) can be done with ease, but it’s not easy. And because it’s not easy, most don’t (can’t) do it.

Note: Walking for health, to do an errand, or to be social is not easy because there are so many other easy things (driving, Amazon, excuses) to do.

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Pretend to be normal, mind

i could pretend to be normal.

But what does normal mean?

Normal to me, by my definition of normal, is boring. Normal is what most do. Acceptable. Herd mentality. No harm, no foul.

What does pretend mean?

Pretend to me is social media: Facebook, IG, even YouTube. Pretend is dreaming but playing life safe.

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To each their own, mind

Teddy bear on a hotel room bed — Finland, 2009.

Freedom of speech.

Freedom of thought.

Think what you want to think.

To each their own.

Don’t worry about what others think.

They don’t worry about what you think.

What a revelation.

Who knew?

Now i know.

One of my late-in-life revelations.

It’s easy to wonder what my life would have been like had i known this decades ago. But gratefully, i haven’t spent any time thinking about it.

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Live and let live, mind

If Disney Ran Your Life podcast — An episode recorded every week (on average) for two years…100 episodes about Personal Vibrancy, including an entire season on Mental Vibrancy.

Let people think what they want to think.

A mentally thoughtful person has been on a long, lonely, invisible journey.

How do i know?

To ‘master’ anything, my experience says:

The long way is the short cut.
No one sees all your behind the scenes work.
No one sees your failures.
No one understands your motives.

Few will notice your thoughtful consistency once you pass the threshold from sometimes being thoughtful to often being thoughtful.

And then the dramatic leap to most of the time, and finally, potentially, to all the time.

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Note: i am writing this post in October 2024, knowing it will publish on June 21, 2025 — the Summer Solstice. As always, this calendar juxtaposition is a unique reflection tool. Stumbled upon the phenomenon many years ago. The time-distance grew from one day to one month, to multiple months to now eight months.

As analogies go, perhaps Summer Solstice is the human lifecycle peak.

Expanding this analogy, Autumnal Equinox can then be the life cycle on the far end of peak life cycle.

Winter Solstice can be the final, ending life cycle.

A decade of Disney retirement (this month) and feeling like a flabby old man (also this month, and also the song title if you look closely) prompted this post’s photo choice.

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