(photo: Middle school classroom cat, Posha, napping in class yesterday.)
Nearly all Baby Boomers want to change but don’t want it badly enough. They are way too comfortable.
Midlife renaissance is a moment of truth. A literal once in a lifetime opportunity to climb out of our deeply ingrained, unintentional midlife rut.
Humanity is oblivious.
And we discriminate against this once-in-a-lifetime invitation to change our attitude.
Why?
Excuses. Comfort. Fear. Doubt.
Seriously?
Everyday people openly share their reality as they go about their day to day. They talk about feeling this, struggling with this, and wanting to overcome it.
Walking through the Disney University parking lot.
The first Midlife Celebration posts were six years ago – November 2008.
Who cares right?
Like most bloggers when it started it was supposed to be every day… you know the standard, “Come back tomorrow for more stuff.”
Never happened.
Not for the rest of that month nor for December.
So guess what the New Year’s resolution was? That’s right, blog every day.
Never happened. Not in January, not in February, not in March.
And like an idiot, promised it was all going to be different starting April Fools’ Day 2009.
Of course it was.
But something strange happened. The first day was easy because it was the first day of the new promise.
But then it was five more posts the next day and five more posts the day after that. Heck, even made it seven days in a row – 35 posts.
And then the craziest darn thing you could ever imagine. Wrote five daily posts every day the second week, the third week, fourth fifth sixth seventh, etc.
Miraculously, five different blogs every day for all 100 days.
Something transformational happened in those 100 days and the thought of stopping on the 101st day seems weirdly unthinkable.
(photo: Two days ago the photo was inspired to capture the laptop cable lock, middle left. Most professional speakers don’t secure their laptop.)
There are moments in our lives that only happen once.
The gratitude from the solitude at 4:30am in this quiet Flint, Michigan Holiday Inn room is remarkable.
Pause for a moment and think about your working years, and the working years of your parents and grandparents.
Have you followed in their footsteps?
Why or why not?
Have you set an example for your children (if you’re a parent)?
Disney career officially began January 25, 1982 as a Magic Kingdom Jungle Cruise Skipper. Left later that year to ride a bicycle across the Country. Returned to Walt Disney World permanently September 1984.
Eventually we all reach the once-in-a-lifetime moment…
The official, public sharing of the impending retirement began yesterday, October 16, 2014.
