Tag: Fear

This might not work, please be careful

Midlife Celebration old website header

 

(photo: Photograph of MLC’s very first business card, cropped to fit WordPress specs.)

Great things never begin with the bliss of certainty.

Blogging here is going to become more interesting in the coming days, weeks, and months.

Why?

Because today marks the official call to begin the official process.

Incredible what attitude contributes to making dreams come true.

Incredible, also, how fragile attitude can be when fear raises it’s ugly head and says, “This might not work. Be careful.”

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Falling is living

teen tshirt message

 

(photo: Ninth grader’s tee-shirt two days ago… have asked Daniel several times for permission to photograph his tee-shirts… he may never know they show up on Mid Life Celebration’s blogs)

The ninth grader sees the future with endless possibilities. Just like Baby Boomers did when they were the same age.

The teen wore a tee-shirt (above) that implies making mistakes is part of life’s journey, our obligation.

Making mistakes is part of life. A huge part.

As important to learning how to thrive, as learning to walk.

Yet aging reduces that desire in many people.

Where is the wisdom in that?

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Dear Son, wait until you can instantaneously articulate what inspires you

 

Can we instantaneously articulate what inspires us? Movies can inspire us, like the one last night, Safe Haven, the catalyst for today’s post.

Starting a business, publishing a book, representing the United States at the Senior Olympics, becoming a Father, celebrating three-plus decades as a husband, revolving everything around Jesus, annually donating and recycling things once thought to be important…

These things have made jungle jeff an exponentially better Cast Member.

And remarkably…

Being a Cast Member has exponentially made jungle jeff better at all those things.

It has been nearly eight months and 1,100 posts since the word me has been used.

Permission to become exceptionally self aware (not perfect, simply aware) is THE most under rated gift you can give yourself.

Live like you mean it. Life is not a dress rehearsal.

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Spend our lives learning how to make this an unnatural response

Six great quotes about worry

 

(photo: iPhone screen shot – from one of yesterday’s many emails)

It’s natural to worry about how we’ll get through tragedy, pain, and uncertainty.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche

And because it’s so natural, we actually have to spend our lives learning how to make this an unnatural response, not an auto-response.

Not worrying is not an act of denial, nor a manifestation from not caring.

It is strength. Growth. Victory. Wisdom.

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