The self discipline of daily, monotonous life.
It’s all we have.
If we don’t master it, it’s still all we have.
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The self discipline of daily, monotonous life
Tag: Discipline
Best to live with a very low degree of intentionally?
(photo: Long term, stocks historically outperform everything else… the luck of timing increases over time)
The things we did yesterday, those we do today and tomorrow – these are the very things that affect our future options.
Same goes with the things we leave undone.
We know this.
Yet we live with a very low degree of intentionally.
Why?
Because it’s uncomfortable to be focused? To be disciplined?
For example, in two days Apple is making an announcement, probably the new iPhone reveal.
How cool is it that a product unveiling could become an amazingly exciting event? One in which many in the world become giddy.
Is anything in our life worthy of a big, highly anticipated announcement?
Anything in our life worthy of giddiness?
What if it were?
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PS. An announcement is forthcoming here. Stay tuned. No specific timeline though. It could be days. Maybe months. But no more than that.
Mid Life 1980
Mid Life in 1980?
Hardly. I was 21. A senior in college, and a dreamer.
There was a movie that shaped the mid life celebration vision. A mother was videotaping herself while she spoke to her unborn child.
She was dying of cancer and would never meet her child.
She wanted her child to be able to see and hear, directly from the video tapes, what she wished for her child and what she thought her child might want to know about their mother.
It was in the following days, on the lazy, sunny, fall days in West Chester, Pennsylvania that I dreamt of writing a book for my children.
The book would contain all the secrets of life, learned through books, travels and experiences.
While the Mid Life Celebration website is two years old, the name and vision are the same, what’s morphed is Mid Life Celebration’s purpose.
And it’s more exciting than I could have ever imagined 30 years ago. Ever feel like that?
Do you have important dreams from long ago that are more exciting today than when you first dreamt them?
How did you go about keeping them alive all these years? Or, how did you go about reigniting the flames?
Why?
January Will Be Simplicity
Happy New Year’s Eve, the biggest drinking day of the year, in the entire world.
What will your New Year’s (or whatever date you use) Resolution be for 2010?
How did you do with the one(s) you made in 2009?
If you are curious enough or smart enough to pay attention, you can learn a lot from what I share. But like anything where excellence is a goal, the focus has to be constant.
Not everyone can keep up. That’s just the law of nature. There’s only a certain type that has that focus and discipline. What type are you?
Looking back to my 2009 resolution to start an Internet-based business, here are some numbers, mostly for posterity (and certainly not to boast):
- 20 – 2008 Mid Life Celebration blog posts
- 312 – 2009 Mid Life Celebration blog posts
Humongous difference, eh?
Why? Because of:
- Passion
- Purpose
- Focus
- Discipline
- Resolve
Joyful Anticipation
Do you look forward to each new day?
I mean, with a joyful anticipation? Not an awful dread.
This can be challenging to say the least. You have to suspect that some readers may not believe I have much experience with Hell, with challenges, problems, obstacles, fear, failure, struggle, grief, agony, hopelessness, strife, worry, doubt.
Do all of you have a ton of experience with these things? Okay then, I rest my case. We all do. No one is immune.
Then why am I so optimistic and “joyful”?
Great question. Some people think I’m crazy. A weirdo. Or, worse, a fake.
It’s taken like 50 years, but, I’m totally cool with it all. Finally.
One of the secrets to being joyful, is so simple, you’re not going to believe it. And it brings great joy to tell you that tomorrow, I’ll reveal January’s “value”.