Mid Life Celebration » Busy http://www.midlifecelebration.com Rethink. Reprioritize. Recommit. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:01:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Father Son Traditions http://www.midlifecelebration.com/thankfulness/father-son-traditions/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/thankfulness/father-son-traditions/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:09 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=2997 Continue reading →]]> Yesterday, you heard a promise.  Here it is, the traditions a mid life Father put in place, using a lion’s share of midlife creativity.  It would be easy to discount their value, because they are so simple.

  1. Bear Hug
  2. One, two, three
  3. Twistee Treat Day
  4. Food For Families
  5. Dinner Prayer
  6. You’ll never get in trouble for being honest
  7. If you lined up all the boys in the world….

What simple, repeatable traditions do is ingrain key messages.  Simple messages.  Life altering messages.

While we are insanely busy, we all have one life to live. We ought to be insanely thankful for that, and then set out to make the most of it.

PS.  If you regularly follow Mid Life Celebration, you already know there’s a really strong chance each tradition will be explained in future posts, maybe as soon as tomorrow.  And if f you’re new here, welcome.

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]]> http://www.midlifecelebration.com/thankfulness/father-son-traditions/feed/ 0 Busiest Day of the Year? http://www.midlifecelebration.com/balance/busiest-day-of-the-year/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/balance/busiest-day-of-the-year/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:44:32 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=2559 Continue reading →]]> “Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the year”. — Jonathon Lazear

Ain’t it the truth?  At least that’s the way it feels.  Why?

You may feel differently.  But for me, it seems like tomorrow is “the day” that, “I’ll finally be able to catch up with things“.  So I race hard to get so much done.

Time marches on and there is simply more to take the place of that which has been done.  Ever heard the phrase, “busy beaver“?  Beavers work hard every day, repairing their dam, fixing their den, looking for food, etc.  Seems there is always lots of work to do.

What’s the solution?  If I knew that, tomorrow would be looking like a vacation day, eh?

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]]> http://www.midlifecelebration.com/balance/busiest-day-of-the-year/feed/ 0 Mid Life Crisis? http://www.midlifecelebration.com/mid-life-crisis-is-when/mid-life-crisis-2/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/mid-life-crisis-is-when/mid-life-crisis-2/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:14:28 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=2403 Continue reading →]]> Mid Life Crisis?  Mid Life Celebration?

Two choices.  Maybe there are more, but it only seems like two that are obvious.

So if you had a choice, which would you pick?

No brainer, eh?

Yep, no brainer.  Then why are so many unhappy?

Because life is hard.  Sometimes, it even feels impossible.

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]]> http://www.midlifecelebration.com/mid-life-crisis-is-when/mid-life-crisis-2/feed/ 0 Take Your Time, But Hurry Up http://www.midlifecelebration.com/balance/take-your-time-but-hurry-up/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/balance/take-your-time-but-hurry-up/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:47:29 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=2154 Continue reading →]]> “You no longer spend your life hurrying around the corner for something which is never there”. — Rex Harrison

If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times.  There is no guarantee in life, except that we will die.

There seems to be a delicate balance between hurrying and not hurrying. We shouldn’t rush blindly through life, bypassing life’s simple pleasures.

But then again, we can’t spend too much time doing what pleases us, because in the end, there really is much work to be done.  Our: mind, body, spirit, money, community, job, sleep, errands, chores, etc.

If we take our cue from nature, animals are constantly trying to survive. There is always the threat of danger lurking somewhere.  In nature the saying goes, “Survival of the fittest”. I’m not talking physically, I’m talking comprehensively.

Ya with me, comprehensively.  This means your day will be really busy. Or not.

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