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Final Leg of Long Journey

Somewhere past the Georgia – Florida border, at 32K feet on a Delta flight, less than an hour from Orlando and home.

I was so crazy tired this morning while sitting at the Helsinki airport, it was challenging to stay awake to type, let alone think clearly.

Got a few hours sleep on the Copenhagen to Atlanta leg – a nine hour flight.  Saw icebergs for the first time ever, as well as seeing Iceland for the first time.

The point to be made below in this morning’s unfinished post:

Everyone goes through some sort of mid-life feeling. The length, depth, theme, intensity, and outcomes are unique and individual.

It was refreshing, if I can use that term loosely, to hear that my new Finnish friends knew exactly what I was talking about when I described Mid Life Celebration.

Chalk up another key learning to this week’s experiences:

“It’s a Small World After All”. — Walt Disney

PS. And the point is that mid life, if we refocus, helps us see things we know to be true, but got too busy with life to remember.  Like our health.  Like what Walt Disney said…

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Mid-Life is the Same Here

Mid-Life Crisis happens in Finland.

How do I know? I asked many Finns this week. They told me.

In preparing for the future, how far should one look?

It is wise to look further out than tomorrow, next week, next month, or later this year.

What about next year, in two years, five, ten, 15 years and more?

It is also wise to be pay attention in four simple categories.

Being in Finland this past week, has reminded me of the extraordinary effort many of the World’s Master’s athletes invest to enjoy Track & Field athletics.

Like a lot of life, it’s easier if we learn these things when we are younger. And yet, at middle-age, we get a second opportunity to rethink, re-prioritize, recommit.

People struggle with this all over the world. We Americans are no different. Neither are the Finns.

I need to get some sleep. Big time. Will have to finish this later….

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jeff noel, Lane 8 & Led Zeppelin

jeff noel, Lane 8, & Led Zeppelin.

What do they have in common?

They are in Lahti, Finland.

Here’s a jeff noel midlife You Tube video to prove it:

Hey, what can I say? I’m a serious person, but not all the time.

Carpe diem, jeff noel, Lane 8 & Led Zeppelin (my all-time fav band). 🙂

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World Championship Mid Life

Whether mid-life celebration or mid-life crisis, what would it take to be world class?

Not sure exactly.

Perhaps, it’s as simple as just being consciously aware of the fact that none of us will live forever.

We all know the truth subconsciously, don’t we? How can we not?

Want another truth? We can truly begin to live when we have achieved a heightened consciousness of the truth.

I guess that’s what it would take to have a world-class mid-life celebration.

At least that’s been my experience.

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Mid Life Greetings from Finland

Mid Life Crisis and Mid Life Celebration greetings from Finland.

I’m here, representing the USA at the Master’s Track & Field World Championships.

I competed yesterday against the world’s best 400 meter runners in the 50-54 age group, finishing sixth in the first of seven heats.

My time was embarrassing by my standards, for a variety of reasons, yet my effort to make it this far is completely Gold medal worthy.

It reminded me, as you probably already know, doing our best is really what we all desire.

I vow to do my very best today.  A day is a terrible thing to waste.

Carpe diem, jeff noel midlife 🙂

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