When will our teacher arrive, the one that changes our actions?

Abraham Lincoln quote on life's purpose
The purpose of life is to live with purpose

 

The underling goal from posting five daily, differently-themed blogs, comprised of (mostly) short and pithy messages, is this:

Can I get under your skin just enough and into your heart enough to compel you to ask yourself tough questions why you’re not living like you mean it as much as you’d like to.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

To tackle today in a balanced way, I love jumping from mind (this blog) to body (this blog).

 

Midlife peace that surpasses modern understanding

positive change
Never saw deep dish pecan pie. Never bootstrapped a business either.

 

If you want something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do things you’ve never done, doing them without fail, much longer than seems reasonable.

Midlife peace that surpasses understanding doesn’t come easily. Yet the work it takes to touch that space, well, that in and of itself brings peace.

This month jeff noel is challenging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To navigate instantly from this mental attitude blog to his physical health blog, click -> go to Next Blog

 

Ever have a serious moment where you realize you may be dead wrong?

biggest mistakes
the highest hand up is ours, he’s 12

 

I could be making one of the biggest mistakes of my life – and missing an incredible Family opportunity – based on traditional, long-held paradigms.

Yesterday I wondered if Boy Scouts is the best way to teach our son confidence using the outdoors and citizenship as the classroom.

Why wouldn’t it be? That’s how I, and countless others, accomplished it as young adults.

And then I asked, why?

(tomorrow)…

Next Blog

The world needs someone to lead a fresh approach to work life balance

life is a special occasion
we don’t know what we have until it’s too late

The world needs someone to lead a fresh approach to work life balance. Not a popular approach, although it could be, a common sense, stripped-down look at the real basics.

What I’ve concluded from decades of observation and an unrelenting desire to figure it out, is that humans dislike the hard work that is required for wellness.

Sad but true. And for the minority (that’s you) that yearn for truth (and validity), this story continues at the Next Blog