Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Today is the 2009 Winter Solstice.
Time marches on. It’s easy to lose track of time.
Isn’t that sort of how we get to mid life and go, “What happened? How did I get here? This isn’t where I thought I’d end up.”
Anyway, the Joy in this is that we are alive to comprehend it. You get that right? We are alive?
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” — Unknown
That would be a life full of Joy, don’t you think?
Have a joy – filled day. Carpe diem.
Five-a-day bloggers. How many are there?
So I Googled five-a-day bloggers and got 367,000,000 search results, but nothing on the first page described anyone who actually writes five daily blogs.
Okay, no problem, let’s narrow the search, so I typed – “five-a-day bloggers” – using quotation marks to focus the search.
Click here to see the result.
When was the last time you Googled anything and got only one result?
If you are new to Mid Life Celebration, welcome. Hope you find this (and the other four daily blogs) a refreshing visit in a cyber-world that is overcrowded with people trying to sell us stuff.
None of the five-a-day blogs I write are selling anything. Maybe hope and inspiration. But nothing that costs money.
Mid Life holiday stress can rob us of the joy we could be experiencing, if only we could focus.
But how are we supposed to focus when this time of year is so hectic?
And it occurred to me that this time of year has always been hectic. Ever see “A Miracle on 34th Street“?
It was inspired on Christmas eve, 1944, when Valentine Davies, a screenwriter, went gift shopping for his wife. It was hectic, crazy, and lacked the spirit of Christmas we all know in our hearts, but often fail to make time for.
Valentine set out to create a movie that would help remind everyone that the spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus, is real. Very real.
Considered a “B” movie, it was released during the summer, and never advertised as a Christmas movie.
The American public embraced the movie so much that it ran in theaters straight through the end of the year.
It is one of the all-time great Christmas movies and one that my family and I watch every holiday season, when we can find the time.
A few days ago I posted a one-take-You Tube video while passing through the Columbia, South Carolina airport. Lexington Medical Center’s unbelievable track record of excellence caught my eye.
Well, they are even more amazing than we first thought. They’ve actually been rated number one for ten years, not eight.
They even have their own You Tube channel. So I checked it out. And may I suggest you think about doing the same?
Whether your You Tube videos are professionally done, whether you do them in one-take, or even if you’ve never shot a You Tube video, you can learn about excellence at any moment.
Click here, if you have a moment now.
The road to excellence has no finish line.
Many people I know perceive mid life as a time that signals the beginning of the downhill side of life – the decline.
Rubbish. However, Henry Ford once said something to this effect, “If you think you can, or you think you cannot, you are right.”
What is there to be joyful about at midlife? Everything. Even the wellness challenges we all face. Pick one: mid life crisis or mid life celebration.
No brainer, eh?
