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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(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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Odds are great the vibe was the same extraordinarily high level of excitement in 1914, a century apart from today.
(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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(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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We miss people who leave earth too soon. We miss those who lived long and well too.
Today is just another ordinary day isn’t it?
Wake up. Race through the day attending to our busy lives.
And then scramble to organize a decent dinner together.
And so it goes.
Days turn into months and rather insidiously, years.
When is the right time to exit from the fast lane?
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The challenge with living like we mean it is there is so much to choose from. Then add to that the unexpected, but regular, challenges life throws our way.
Every single day we have more than we can handle. And what we can’t handle today gets added to tomorrow’s list of normal things plus a growing list of things we don’t have time for.
And we wonder why we are stressed out.
What do you do everyday because you’re passionate about it? And hate when you don’t get to do it?
So add to the daily ‘live-like-you-mean-it’ recipe the dissatisfaction that comes from not getting to embrace our passion.
The constant temptation to short change our dreams.
Time.
It all comes down to time doesn’t it?
And priorities.
And balance.
No?
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