Did you welcome this morning with a nice sense of anticipation?

Disney Retiree benefits
Imagine your excitement if you were waking up to go to Walt Disney World this morning.

 

Did you welcome this morning with a nice sense of anticipation?

What if you did?

 

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Perfect timing for an opinion on eccentricity

eccentricity definition
Weirdness, oddness, strangeness – looks like the shoe fits.

Finding solace…

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell

A deadline i gave myself 10 years ago has 21 months remaining.

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Two requirements for an easier life

Quote on living well
The other night on TV, remembering Alan Thicke.

 

Literally, our only hope for life to feel like it’s getting easier and more joyful is to become more resilient and more grateful.

 

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The Paradox Of Preparing To Die

Seth Godin's Titan
This was in the packaging of a giant 17-pound book we received a couple days ago. What will it sound like when (if) you change your mind about preparing to die?

 

The Paradox Of Preparing To Die:

Like it or not, agree with it or not, we (you and i) are dying.

From the moment we’re born.

No?

So, should we be preparing to die?

i say, “Yes.”

Why?

Because the process of preparing enlightens us on how to live more fully in the routine, daily moments that fill our lives.

i could never relate to that idea because i had never done it.

i was floating back and forth…

Most of us are neither preparing to die nor preparing to live.

Floating back and forth between doing nothing.

Going through the motions.

Sleepwalking through life.

Neither living purposefully, nor dying purposefully.

But imagine preparing to die.

Can you?

Recall how you anticipated (and prepared for) one of your favorite vacations.

Same difference.

 

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Why doesn’t the overwhelm ever end?

Florida alligator in retention pond
Small gators keep growing. This one, from yesterday’s bicycle ride to Disney University was between 2-3 feet long. Not a threat. Yet.

 

Why doesn’t the overwhelm ever end?

Because it’s the nature of life.

Nature is beautiful and brutal simultaneously.

Our job is to find as much joy as we can in spite of the consistently unexpected events that throw us off balance.

Our best defense is learning how to dance with difficulty.

 

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