Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
It’s really easy, isn’t it? Why? Because that’s what we do. It’s safe. It’s predictable.
However, I just can’t accept the status quo. Can you? Do you? There has to be more. Intuitively, there has to be more. Doesn’t there?
So if there is more, how do we strive to get it? Why do we strive to get it? Should we strive to get it?
Whatever it takes to give ourselves Peace and Contentment. Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, I think:
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark”.
“Every Man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do”. — Voltaire
This thought almost has me speechless. Seriously. Wow.
This is a profoundly simple, yet simply profound statement. Why?
It signifies, perhaps, one of the original seeds of mid life crisis. We get to mid life and question, “What the heck happened to all my plans to do great things”?
If we are strong enough and focused enough, to have the will to turn our mid life crisis into a mid life celebration, we can realize a second chance in life. It’s up to each one of us. And yes, it will NOT be easy, but it will be worth celebrating. Big time!
“Identify your highest skill and devote your time to performing it. Delegate all other skills”. — Ronald Brown
Mid life adults get to mid life for a variety of reasons, including luck, passion, focus, discipline, etc. What we do once we get to mid life is a different game though.
How?
Why?
Many reasons to be sure. Well, at least if we pay attention. Many people at mid life have the proverbial Mid Life Crisis, lasting from a few hours, a few months, and even a few years.
One of the mid life tips to consider is to do what Ronald Brown suggests. Only one challenge with that though?
Most have no idea what their highest skill is. None. Crisis? What crisis?
“Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the year”. — Jonathon Lazear
Ain’t it the truth? At least that’s the way it feels. Why?
You may feel differently. But for me, it seems like tomorrow is “the day” that, “I’ll finally be able to catch up with things“. So I race hard to get so much done.
Time marches on and there is simply more to take the place of that which has been done. Ever heard the phrase, “busy beaver“? Beavers work hard every day, repairing their dam, fixing their den, looking for food, etc. Seems there is always lots of work to do.
What’s the solution? If I knew that, tomorrow would be looking like a vacation day, eh?
“Wealth can’t buy health, but health can buy wealth”. — Henry David Thoreau
Interesting. Why? Because Thoreau died in 1862, at 44. Little did he know that all these years later, money can buy health, to a certain extent. But that’s not the reason this Thoreau quote is important.
It’s important because, in my opinion, health can buy wealth. My wife’s Grammy, who lived to be 93, would always say, “Health is wealth”.
Grammy died in my arms in 1989. We had traveled to Allentown, Pennsylvania to visit Family and I was attending our best man’s wedding.
Grammy, in her wisdom, knew firsthand that as we age, we are at the mercy of our bodies. Our body – the greatest machine ever devised. Don’t forget to rotate your tires and change the oil at regular intervals.