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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(photo: Looking forward to speaking at the Amway Center for Mid Life Celebration, LLC)
Six more days until retirement. Most colleagues think it’s going to be a stage in life to take it easy.
But there’s too much work to be done.
And too many people struggling to make sense of their midlife.
This is where the world could use a movement and someone to lead it.
This is where the world could use a little “Magic”.
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(photo: Yosemite operating system install complete.)
Why can so few of us slow down enough to appreciate unusually rare art?
Called three people yesterday on the flight home from Detroit. The calls were the first of this type in 55 years.
The people were chosen for their dedication, support, encouragement, loyalty, hope.
People side by side with MLC from the beginning in April 2009.
Mid Life Celebration’s very first post was November 14, 2008.
Sure it’s challenging to read five daily, differently-themed blog posts for five-plus years.
Maybe they were contacted because they understand it’s exponentially more challenging to write them.
No theory here.
Only real life in real time.
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(photo above: two notes… the date and time on the bottom red line (9/11 5:27am) …and Detroit departure time of 7:07am on the very top.)
(photo: PDX Delta Sky Club view courtesy of a colleague with Diamond status)
Flying home from Portland, Oregon yesterday, September 11, there was a heightened awareness of change.
Not from the horrific tragedy in 2001.
Rather the keen sense of the drastic, impending change brought on by another dramatic moment in the near future.
Retirement.
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(photo: Labor Day weekend 2014… a bunch of 55-years olds gathered at a Buddy’s North Carolina Mountain cabin… contemplating life, work, grandkids, retirement, etc)
It is so easy to back down from living in the now and pushing forward with our big (or simply enjoyable) dreams.
When the tough decisions have to be made to continue forward in the direction of something uncharted, we are tempted to wait.
If the decisions were easy, we wouldn’t need, or want, more time to decide.
And waiting becomes a (bad) habit.
Today is yesterday’s tomorrow.
Should we retire this year, at 55, and go full on with our retirement plans, or should we wait until 60 or 65?
See what I mean?
What would you do?
Retire in 2014 (55), 2021 (62) or 2024 (65)?
The longer you postpone retirement, the bigger the pension.
The sooner you launch your dream, the longer you get to work on it.
None of us had a definitive answer.
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Do you remember one of the most exciting times of your youth? The anticipation of something that you knew would be mind-blowing, challenging, and spectacular?
Do those feelings ever return for an encore?
Praying it is so for you.
Yesterday made the first official call to learn about more structured planning for the future. Our attitude is what determines whether we think 10 years out is too soon to start planning.
Hoping incredible youthful feelings return for an encore.
It’s our responsibility.
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