Our best alibi is a terrorist

Disney Leadership Speakers

 

(photo: Swarovski Santa. It’s cute. A great, compulsive buy. Who wouldn’t love it? This never ends until we suffocate on our lifetime of stuff.)

Time flies and we use this notion as an alibi.

Someday we’ll get it all together and live a really decent life.

But for now, we have to go. Only ten days until Christmas.

Our best alibi is a terrorist.

Don’t believe it?

Answer this: Are you satisfied?

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Waiting for the perfect time to get it together?

Orlando Leadership Keynote Speakers

 

(photo: Conferences are a great place to learn, obviously.)

Conferences are also a great place to teach. “Ever thought about that?”, he said to himself.

“The important work of reshuffling our life’s priorities should not wait to be done until our conditions are perfect”, he also said to himself.

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Mid Life Celebration is about making the most of the hand we’re dealt

MWS International Parade 2014

 

Middle School play

 

(photo: Middle Schoolers practicing their Fall International Parade performance, October 22, 2014)

Sometimes our second choice is better than the official choice.

Will miss tonight’s performance, but didn’t miss yesterday’s final practice session.

Mid Life Celebration is about making the most out of the hand we are dealt.

Always.

Insight: Unknowingly, to be the only parent at the final rehearsal was inspiring to the students.

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Same good and bad challenges 100 years apart?

Odds are great the vibe was the same extraordinarily high level of excitement in 1914, a century apart from today.

 

1914 concrete bench at University of Iowa

 

University of Iowa Homecoming 2014 sign

 

(photo top: Yesterday morning’s running route. Bottom: Flyer on the ground while running on campus.)

Not much changes in the human psyche. Why aren’t all our days extraordinary?

The vibe around homecoming is several levels higher than the karma around other fall weekends.

Why?

We all know why.

The bigger question is why do we not treat each weekend as this special?

Then convert this thinking to our daily living.

Asking why and why not is transformational.

Why are some days extraordinary?

Why are’t all our days extraordinary?

But it requires time.

Yeah, there’s always a catch.

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It’s probably nothing

College buddies reunited for a mountain cabin retreat

 

(photo: All but one couple have grownup, adult children… one couple is the poster example for late bloomer)

When will the racing stop? Our days fly by in a flurry of activity and checklists.

Never seems to be enough time.

If only we had more time.

Someday things will slow down. Right?

All we have is time, yet we use it like it’s an inexhaustible resource.

But it isn’t.

And no amount of ignoring this fact buys a single day more.

What would compel us to have a sense of urgency for living like we mean it?

Probably nothing.

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