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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Our list of excuses is long. And creative. And of course includes the five universal hall-of-fame excuses.
The opportunity hidden in constraint is embracing and overcoming the lack of:
Is it a midlife crisis or a midlife celebration?
Up to each of us to individually decide.
Our decision to change or not change changes everything.
Everything.
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Heuristics, defined here, may be getting in our way.
Or, they may be what leads to our breakthrough.
Alas, life is tough.
Much of our life is based on fairy tale imprinting.
Our brain compensates by accepting prevailing thoughts or concepts that may no longer be true – and may have never been true.
Heuristics are human shortcuts that allow busy, distracted humans to quickly process things and reach conclusions.
Or maybe we just make it tough because we aren’t willing to buck the heuristics.
Buck the heuristics. Double entendre intended.
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Rethinking public education in 2015 makes sense to Baby Boomers.
Rethinking mid-life, right now, is a much tougher sell to Boomers.
In either case, it is done to change the trajectory.
The 2nd best time to rethink was yesterday.
The best time is today.
Do something that scares you, or something you “absolutely don’t have time for”, like take a walk outside.
Ask, “Am I satisfied?”
A summary of how and why Finland is rethinking education is here.
(Summary: By 2020, Finland plans to phase out teaching individual subjects such as math, chemistry and physics, and instead teach students by ‘topics’ or broad phenomena, so that there’s no more question about “what’s the point of learning this?”)
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Who teaches us this?
Theory is meaningless without action.
Knowlege isn’t power.
Knowledge is only the seed of power.
Power comes from action.
Taking risks is risky. So is playing it safe.
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Focus, discipline, intentionality and purpose are essential in overcoming the daily onslaught of expected and unexpected to-do’s.
The constant struggle to keep up is better, if you really think about it, than the daily struggle to medicate, distract, and entertain ourselves away from the pain of being buried.
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