Month: March 2016

Excited, confused, even baffled

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Yesterday, out for a 10-miler to Magic Kingdom.

 

Excited, confused, even baffled is how i’m feeling.

This post has been hard to write. i’ve changed the title and contents a couple times.

Why?

Not sure exactly. This never happens.

It’s the crazy excitement knowing that the most ridiculous milestone is only 100 days away. If i write just 100 more consecutive days, the seventh year of daily writing will be completed.

Maybe it’s because i can see that todays’s posts go live on the eve of that milestone day – April Fools Day.

i remember picking April Fools Day on purpose because i thought i was a fool to think “this time” was going to be different than all the other failed attempts i had at writing with consistency.

This was something i wrote down in the Spring of 1980 while at the North Carolina Outward Bound School. A reminder that the only limitations i have are those i impose upon myself.

If i never try anything, i never learn anything. If i never take a risk, i stay where i am.

 

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The art of midlife looking

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Seriously, every single day before heading out the door, i write five different blogs on five different web sites. The sun is just beginning to hit Cinderella Castle.

 

The art of midlife looking (seeing your life differently).

  • Be ever present
  • Continuously break the self-imposed tyranny of conformity
  • See the wonderland in your dreams

Art is doing things differently or better than the way the Herd does it.

My breakthrough arrived insidiously, during 2014. That 2008 impossible goal to write five different blogs on five different sites was ridiculous. On top of that, i wrongly envisioned it morphing into something remarkable.

Yet miraculously, i never abandoned writing five daily, differently-themed blogs on five different websites.

And the art that is created each morning is original and different, but definitely not better. The beauty in art is that different is all you need.

 

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Thinking much smaller might be the game changer

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With less than two weeks before New Year’s Day 2016, many of us are spending a little more time than normal thinking about the future – the “new” year.

Where do we center our thinking?

Yearly or daily resolutions?

Changing our focus might change everything.

 

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Only four days from beginning the eighth year

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Come April 1, 2016, this is how many blog posts i’ve written in seven years.

 

Ever do something that was impossible at first, miraculously accomplish it, but then it grew into something even more impossible?

Only four days until the beginning of the eighth year.

Seven years (2,557 days, including two leap years) of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts equals 12,785 posts.

There are also 100 days worth of (500) posts that are written and in the que to publish. Yes, i suffer from writer’s flood. Some days, writing only five posts isn’t enough.

So in reality, i’ve written 13,285 posts.

Sick.

Impossible.

No end in sight.

 

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