Fun is in the mental freedom

Orlando Inspirational Speakers

 

(photo: Store front window display at upscale mall.)

Hanukkah began yesterday. Six days until Milad un Nabi. One week until Christmas. Eight days until Kwanza.

Fun is in the mental freedom.

To work for years – a lifetime really – to create an unquenchable and habitually positive attitude is to enjoy the fun in the freedom and immunity from negative thoughts, people, messages.

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Independent midlife heretic?

Will-A-Mar Orange Grove sign

 

(photo: when one season ends, another begins, so they say)

  1. Are we independent midlife heretics?
  2. Are we desiring independence from the Herd, status quo?
  3. Could there be such a thing as a midlife Independence day?

Yes, yes, and yes.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. – Mark Twain

Many critics, few patriots.

The cost of midlife personal responsibility is high.

The price of freedom in achieving it – priceless.

No one is going to climb our mountain for us.

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The trap is insidious

Florida Chameleon shedding it's skin
Nature doesn’t give most creatures a choice for asking permission, life depends on change.

 

It’s real.

Very, very real.

Even though we deny it.

We wait a lifetime for permission that can only come from one person, and one person only.

And we act like it’s the world’s permission we seek.

When really, it is only ourselves who has to decide if permission is granted.

Decide.

Then go.

Your life is waiting.

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The irony of our midlife choices

Snow shovel and palm tree
The irony of our midlife choices

 

The irony of our midlife choices is that we say one thing but do another. We hate the freezing temperatures but live there anyway. And use plastic palm trees in the corner as some sort of twisted bandaid.

We pollute our soul so slowly we never notice.

Until the wakeup call comes.

And even then…

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PS. Live like you mean it is a battle cry, not a slogan.