Tag: Excuses

The bridge between where you want to be and where you are now is

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This is sorta like a math challenge, but different.

The bridge between where we want to be and where we are now is what we are doing today, this week and next.

It revolves around second chances.

But, there are hurdles…. excuses, regrets.

And sunshine… hope, opportunity.

And a catch (theres always a catch isn’t there?)… permission.

And sometimes, if we’re lucky, a bonus…. a wake up call.

And the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow… balance.

It’s a bridge not many of us pursue… second chances.

Wisdom is when we no longer wait for permission because we are now (finally) crystal clear who grants it.

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We all know the answer to this common midlife dilemma

Mid Life Celebration book and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame marque
How audacious is it to think you could start a movement that would change things?

 

This quote struck me while sitting in a Cleveland hotel room, sipping the morning’s first cup of coffee.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
– William Stafford

We all know why we stop. We don’t share the same exact reason, but we do all pick from the same generic list of excuses.

It took me 30 years to write the first sentence for Mid Life Celebration: rethink • reprioritize • recommit.

Took two more years to finish it.

Took two more years after that to get the guts to commit to publishing.

I get what you get and hear what you hear and fear what you fear, but kept going anyway.

Here’s to you.

(click the link below to get to the horrific Saddam Hussain post told by my cab driver)

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Balance is not a myth, contrary to all the BS saying it is

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Balance is not a myth, contrary to all the BS saying it is.

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Life has five big choices.

Five short, pithy posts are written here every day.

That’s right. Every. Damn. Day.

Since April Fool’s Day 2009.

9k posts so far.

And a book since Thanksgiving.

If you are serious about about change, then get serious about it.

We can fool just about everyone.

But we can’t fool ourselves.

If you’ve never been a regular reader here, what would happen if you tried it for a week?

A year from now you’ll wish you would have started today.

Don’t believe it?

What’s your other next best plan?

The one that didn’t work last year, and the one that didn’t work the year before that?

Our struggles are overcome one single day at a time.

Been there done that, continuing to do it.

World class overcomer.

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One of the best revelations jeff noel ever told us

Video from August 2009, Finland – Masters Track & Field World Championships. Filmed in the street. Simply trying to capture the essence of what slow and steady can look like from a seed to ten years later.

 

 

One of the best revelations jeff noel ever told us:

The long way is the shortcut.

True that.

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