Milestones – Page 11 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

We have these moments in life that surprise us at first

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The following is from two nights ago…decided it is blog worthy today…

Typing this in the dark.

We have these moments in life that surprise us at first but then they don’t.

Lying in bed right now, on this Easter Sunday night, a moment.

And the thing is, our little moments are insignificant to the rest of the world.

But they astonish us.

Six years ago, couldn’t write my way out of a wet paper bag.

But started writing anyway. And as a result, in just five more days, the 11,000th blog post will go public.

Relish your insignificant moments, because no one else will.

But that doesn’t mean your moment isn’t significant.

It is.

And use your moment to create more moments.

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Five days away from the five-a-day milestone

(photo: After six years, still don’t have a business card. Ordered some yesterday.)

Five days away from the five-a-day milestone. The key insight is this:

Our path never plays out the way we dream. It’s either better or worse. Our job is keep moving forward.

We can never make progress if we stop.

Duh.

Sounds so logical.

Yet why do we quit so soon after we begin these ambitious journeys?

And what happens to the folks who refuse to quit?

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No one cares about your 2191 consecutive days

(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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Midlife Renaissance is a moment of truth inflicted with discrimination

(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.

But only one in 100 buys this book.

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Very first Mid Life Celebration blog post was six years ago

Walt Disney car stickers — 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.

April Fools’ Day 2009 was 2048 days ago.

Remarkable.

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