Humble servant.
Profoundly simple.
Easy to remember.
Easy enough for others to remember it.
But not powerful enough to get others motivated to think long enough, and hard enough, to do anything about theirs.
Humble Servant
Tag: Simple
The Meaning Of Life Revealed
“To Love and be Loved.”
“Wait! That’s it? That’s all you got? Are you kidding me?”, people might be thinking.
And I say, “What? it’s too simple for you?”
Hello. Earth to astonished person. Wake up. Of course it’s simple.
It’s profoundly simple, and yet simply profound.
“To Love and be Loved.”
Most of life is simple. It’s our nature to want to complicate things, to believe, “Everything is important.”
Why? It’s remains a mystery to this very day. Perhaps it’s the whole “keeping up with the Jones” syndrome.
Simplicity is the way. The only way.
By the way, “I’ll bet you still don’t have an answer, do you?”, he thought to himself as he finished writing this blog post.
Is Love All That Matters?
Is it?
I mean seriously, humans have complicated life, in a noble attempt to simplify it. Haven’t we?
Perhaps greed is the underlying thread that has made simplicity so complex.
No matter, we continue our search for the meaning of life and the peace we hope to gain from embracing it – if only it would be revealed to us.
Tell you what, I’ll reveal it to you tomorrow and all your challenges will vanish.
Meanwhile, mull on this overnight:
If a child asked you, “What is the meaning of life?”, what would your immediate answer be?
Simple Is Hard
Happy New Year! Welcome 2010.
We all dream don’t we? When does dreaming big ever get old?
Big goals and big dreams are a daily thought process for me.
Big goals require a ton of work, which is why some big dreams have eluded me all my life.
What are your big dreams this year?
Do you have the indomitable will to do the things you’ve never done before?
Ever think about what it must have been like for our forefathers to tame this land we call America, or any land for that matter?
To tame it.
To make it work for them instead of being an overwhelming obstacle.
My big dream is to help others find their indomitable will. Have been working very hard at this for a long time.
Have you ever worked really hard at something, for a really long time, and started to think that it’s wasn’t worth all the effort?
I thought so. And when I get frustrated, my thoughts automatically turn to the hardships, and indomitable will of our forefathers:
Wait, you didn’t even click on the video. You’re too busy. Good luck with that. Seriously.
Father Son Traditions
Yesterday, you heard a promise. Here it is, the traditions a mid life Father put in place, using a lion’s share of midlife creativity. It would be easy to discount their value, because they are so simple.
- Bear Hug
- One, two, three
- Twistee Treat Day
- Food For Families
- Dinner Prayer
- You’ll never get in trouble for being honest
- If you lined up all the boys in the world….
What simple, repeatable traditions do is ingrain key messages. Simple messages. Life altering messages.
While we are insanely busy, we all have one life to live. We ought to be insanely thankful for that, and then set out to make the most of it.
PS. If you regularly follow Mid Life Celebration, you already know there’s a really strong chance each tradition will be explained in future posts, maybe as soon as tomorrow. And if f you’re new here, welcome.