Tag: History

2,400 bottles of beer on the wall…

Comic Book box
Speaking of genesis (below), photo from yesterday at the Comic Book store.

 

Today becomes the 2,400th consecutive day of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts…12,000 posts:

Mind • Body • Spirit • Work • Home

Prior to April Fools Day 2009, i had not gone more than three consecutive days, and had never written five posts in a single day.

The genesis was a self-imposed 100-day writer’s bootcamp.

The pre-genesis was the 1979 promise (as a college Junior) i made to write a book of wisdom “for my kids”.

 

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

Do we need questions that make people’s minds explode?

Q. Why did you create Mid Life Celebration?

A. Because the world needs a wake up call.

This Is Genius, the video below, really is, genius.

 

 

Leadership 201: Ask questions that make people’s minds explode – because of the question’s power.

The video made my eyes water, as a 55 year old dad of a 14-year old, i find myself asking a powerful question that no one offers a convincing answer to.

What’s the purpose of school?

Hat tip to Seth Godin for sharing.

This Is Genius?

Yes.

Final answer.

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Why did jeff noel found Mid Life Celebration six years ago?

Teen at YuGiOh tournament
The inspiration for taking action is the harsh reality of secondary worries. Colon cancer.

 

Why did jeff noel found Mid Life Celebration six years ago?

Because action cures fear.

For more than six years jeff has been working towards the ability to raise (a ton of) money to donate to the good people looking for a cure for something currently incurable.

The President of the Foundation in New York has agreed to meet to hear the crazy idea.

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Detour today from short and pithy

Disney Customer Service Keynotes
Mid Life Celebration founder enjoying an ice cream cone at 9am on a weekday.

 

Can you pin point the thought or event that changed the direction of your life?

The catalytic thought that changed the trajectory of my life…

The notion of, “What would we do if we only had six months to live” just didn’t feel right…

A more compelling idea emerged, “What if we had only ten years to do everything we ever wanted to do in life?”

Sorta chuckled right away that one year would go by and i’d suddenly be embarrassingly reminded of that “promise”, “Uh oh, now i only have nine years to do the ten year plan.”

The idea that it all had to be done within a decade was intoxicating because it seemed so doable. So much so that i began six months before the milestone 50th birthday – the starting line of “the next ten years”.

Rather than procrastinate, i got a tax ID and started an LLC on January 1, 2009.

The big picture?

Five more years to finish a 30-year Disney career and retire at 55.

And five more years to put a dent in the Universe – to raise money to fund a cure for Crohn’s disease.

Now here we are.

To be continued…

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No one cares about your 2191 consecutive days

Disney Legacy Keynote Speakers

 

(photo: The writing’s goal was to get some practice so a book – to the child above – could be written.)

No one cares about your 2191 consecutive days.

No problem.

Obviously if caring about what others did or thought was the driver, today wouldn’t mark the beginning of the seventh year.

Would have quit long ago. Might not have even made it to the original goal of 100 days.

You have come far when you can not remember the last time you complained abut something.

Coming to the realization that only one person grants permission is one of the journey’s greatest blessings.

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