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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings”. — Ed Gardner
Workaholics rarely have courage for self-confrontation. We’re too busy trying to control things and control life. If we pause long enough to notice the bleeding, we might have to change who we are.
Panic attack, right? When will we take time to:
Probably never. Am I wrong?
Or maybe when the phone rings, “Honey, it’s for you, it’s your wake up call”.
“Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt”. — Harvey Mackay
By now, we know that there are many people who make tons of promises. Same with businesses, with marketing, with the Internet, and so on. False promises.
The real question is, to me, “What promises am I making to myself that are false promises? Promises to be wary of”?
This is one of the main reasons we find ourselves in a mid-life crisis.
We start with good, well-intended promises, but in reality, they were really only false promises:
No one should feel alone reading this. We all suffer from this. We’re human. That’s what we do, we fail. Over and over again.
So now, consciously reminded of this, “What are you gonna do about it? And I mean specifically, what are you gonna do today”?
Not quite yet. But, I’ve been thinking about it for a couple years.
What is retirement anyway?
What do people do for income?
What do they do for self-esteem?
Are we resigned to slowly decay?
Will we finally be able to do all the things we always wanted to do?
Will we be bored stiff or amazingly active?
Will we be an example or a warning, on how to live life?
The good news? I have formulated answers to these and, more importantly, have taken action. Have you?
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Hot & naked? Neither.
Hot and bothered maybe, but not hot and naked. There’s a temptation to use sexual innuendos to sell things.
It’s pervasive. So much so that this blog post title actually caused a reaction that was opposite of it’s purpose.
My purpose is simply to vent a little about how passively lives are lived. And it almost feels, to me, like people have given up the will to work hard.
Hard work. It’s the only way, at any age.
While the title was read with the wrong purpose, it was written with the right intent.
If you have the will but are finding the way difficult, Mid Life Celebration’s intent is to reach as many people fitting this description as possible.
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“Outside a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read”. — Groucho Marx
I read every day. Currently reading Seth Godin’s Purple Cow.
It’s a book about what it takes to be remarkable. If you saw a herd of cows in a big field and one of them was purple, that would be remarkable. It’s a business book.
And yet, I can’t help but correlate it to life, especially mid life.
There’s a temptation, in mid life, to think that we are past prime and there’s no point to reinventing ourselves.
Bullcrap.
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