Tag: Excuses

Same good and bad challenges 100 years apart?

Odds are great the vibe was the same extraordinarily high level of excitement in 1914, a century apart from today.

 

1914 concrete bench at University of Iowa

 

University of Iowa Homecoming 2014 sign

 

(photo top: Yesterday morning’s running route. Bottom: Flyer on the ground while running on campus.)

Not much changes in the human psyche. Why aren’t all our days extraordinary?

The vibe around homecoming is several levels higher than the karma around other fall weekends.

Why?

We all know why.

The bigger question is why do we not treat each weekend as this special?

Then convert this thinking to our daily living.

Asking why and why not is transformational.

Why are some days extraordinary?

Why are’t all our days extraordinary?

But it requires time.

Yeah, there’s always a catch.

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Tomorrow is the enemy, not today

Dawn in America

 

(photo: Dawn. Remember yesterday when we said tomorrow?)

Our attitude today is a leading indicator of how we’ll think and behave tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the enemy, not today.

Tomorrow is a crutch, a drug, the best excuse ever invented.

The best time to have courage was yesterday.

The second best time is today.

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Time is a midlife quality?

White Lab at sea wall
He wants to come over the fence because he thinks his owner is not coming back.

 

Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working. – unknown

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This is never going to make things change

Orlando Tour busses
Cruising through life on auto pilot, desperately hoping for change

 

Most mid-lifers have quietly accepted their prison sentence on the treadmill of life.

And with each monotonous, repetitive step they keep waiting and hoping for life to shower them with meaning and happiness.

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What is the coolest thing we can do to be true to ourselves?

Disney's Soarin'
Some planes people remain grounded an entire lifetime

 

What is the coolest thing we can do to be true to ourselves?

An uncommon question and unlikely we have a ready answer. But what if we did?

Why are so few of us are able to pull ourselves out of our deeply worn ruts. Ruts that began long ago as ‘finding our groove’.

Do only the luckiest of mid-lifers have role models who encourage them?

Do only the luckiest have role models who have blazed a trail as a decent example?

The rest of us, well, do we still have time to become a trail blazer?

Do we even think it’s worth it at this stage in life?

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