Tag: Gratitude

No one can make you do this every morning

Orlando Sunrise
A few minutes ago, January 30, 2016.

 

Yesterday marked 30 years to the day for the Challenger disaster.

A few days before that marked three years since a friend took his life at work.

Almost daily, each of us is faced with world events and personal events that are painful and senseless.

No one is immune to this distant (world) and close (personal) pain and confusion.

We must greet the day with joy, hope, and gratitude.

Well, we don’t have to, and that’s the point of this post.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Lunch at MOMS

Melts on Main Street Winter Garden
We both had the Fancy Pig at MOMS; “Melts On Main Street”.

 

Melts on Main Street Winter Garden
Main Street Winter Garden, near Plant Street.

 

Melts on Main Street Winter Garden
Last night was the annual Christmas Tree lighting on Plant Street.We sat outside, middle left are two sidewalk tables.

 

Lunch in a small town, on a breezy and sunny Florida afternoon. We ate. We talked. i just wanted to personally have some face to face time to say how grateful i am for her support. Joyce has done Mid Life Celebration, LLC’s taxes for four of it’s six years. And it took six years to make the first dime, and it took seven to make a profit.

Not many last seven years to see this finally happen.

On a side note, it will take two more years to pay off the debt incurred.

 

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Overwhelmed with gratitude?

Delivering Food For Families
Yesterday was the 16th year of this Thanksgiving morning tradition.

 

Delivering Food For Families
After receiving the addresses for which you will deliver to, you pull up to load two boxes per family.

 

Delivering Food For Families
Like many other marketing campaigns, it’s difficult to reach enough people.

 

Overwhelmed with gratitude?

How can anyone not be?

Official American holidays like yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day are great reminders to be thankful for all that we have.

And then my brain wonders (and wanders) and i quietly ponder this, “Why do we need official, National reminders?”

 

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A debt of gratitude list

Le Westin Montreal lobby sign
The date, time, and place stamped on the digital lobby sign.

 

Old Harbor Montreal
The small yellow image, a walker, caught my eye.

 

Montreal war veteran memorial.
Closer inspection revealed a military tribute monument. Two days prior was Remembrance Day (Veteran’s Day in America).

 

Teddy Bear in Montreal airport
An airport tradition for a decade or more.

 

Freedom Tower from JFK tarmac.
Freedom Tower from JFK tarmac yesterday.

 

A debt of gratitude:

To my wife, for covering the home front, solo, for three days.

To our son, for, well, just being a son, and a studious ninth-grader.

To Lee Cockerell, for his referral; otherwise there would not have been a Montreal trip.

To Manon Richard for being a superb event planner. Superb.

To Michel for guiding me the entire day and having me want for nothing. Remarkable.

To Westin and Delta for doing what they do so well.

To our Military, for providing safe passage in North America.

To God, for the blessing of having a purposeful way to contribute to society.

Editor’s note: The above list was started yesterday during a two-hour layover at JFK airport. Little did i know as i wrote about “safe passage in North America” that hours later tragedy would hit Paris.

 

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Who’s writing my story?

Mickey Mouse tattoo on calf
Yesterday on high school tour. Mickey is tattooed on my heart.

 

Who’s writing my story?

It’s a question that changed my life in 2008/09.

This was the timeframe that an unusually weird Disney layoff provided the gift of feeling vulnerable for the first time (at the time, i was in my 24th year at Disney).

This was the catalyst for creating a Plan B even though the layoffs were done.

The best time to worry about your next job is when you don’t need to.

My next job revolved around the dream of being the captain of my own ship – a solo entrepreneur. To take everything i learned in 30 years at Disney and retire at 55 and begin the quest to put a dent in our Universe.

PS. Unusually weird means that the process didn’t make sense to me, nor to literally all of my colleagues.

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