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Why is simplicity so compellingly attractive?

Placing postage stamps upside down
The tradition (now a habit) of placing postage stamps upside down started in 1996. It was a way to say “i love you” to my dying Grandmother.

 

Why is it so challenging to simplify our life?

Simplify.

Simplicity.

Simple.

Doesn’t the very goal word personify simplicity.

How can simplifying be complex, difficult?

Why do so many people, and so many organizations, and so many countries struggle with this?

Why is simplicity so compellingly attractive?

Why is it so difficult?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

We cannot improve this one thing

Rental car odometer
What is the weight you would call your ‘fighting weight’? Where you feel (or felt) absolutely invincible? Mine = 151.

 

Very often, because we treat everything coming at us as important, even the trivial stuff, we go through our day without a sense of balance or sense of priority. Yet we want to get better at so many things in our life.

We cannot improve this one thing.

We cannot improve what we do not measure.

As a small example of a high priority go to the next blog and you’ll see one thing I do (twice) every single morning…

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The one thing that separates a good from great attitude

overcoming addiction
Kentucky Derby party, May 5, 2012 (ah, the good 'ol days of Margaritaville)

Leaders do not lead others beyond where they themselves are. – Stuart Briscoe

Profoundly simple, simply profound.

The one thing that separates a good attitude from a great attitude is what we ourselves have overcome, been through, or accomplished.

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Show Me The Money

Graphs?
Graphs?

Some simple numbers to show the possibilities when giving up isn’t an option, and neither is dreaming small dreams.

  1. 30,000+:  Number of Monthly Visits
  2. Five:  Number of Daily blogs written
  3. 200:  jeffnoelmidlife You Tubes uploaded, in past 8 months
  4. Hundreds of thousands of Monthly Page Views
  5. First:  Google Page display for all five blogs
  6. Last:  Where I want to be (humble, least, meek)

Raising enough money to find a cure for an incurable disease.

Impossible is nothing.

Thank you for your visits.  There are enormous plans for Mid Life Celebration. This is just the beginning. Together, we can and will help shape the world in a way that teaches young children personal responsibility, beginning in elementary schools.