Mid Life Celebration » Mid life checklists http://www.midlifecelebration.com Rethink. Reprioritize. Recommit. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hot and Naked? http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-herd/hot-and-naked/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-herd/hot-and-naked/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:22:54 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=2016 Continue reading →]]> 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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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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I’m tempted to question myself. Why? Because many I talk with, think I’m crazy to believe that people will want to change if the right recipe comes along.

There is a secret recipe. Everyone knows it. But because we ignore it, it remains a secret.

The secret is, “work hard and find your purpose”.

Most people don’t want to do either. I certainly didn’t. Most of my life was, “Work hard, play hard”. That’s a catch phrase for, “Hurry up, we’re lost”.

Then I regained consciousness and started looking around.  There’s much work to be done.  The harvest is great, the workers are few.

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]]> http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-herd/an-old-ironic-habit/feed/ 0 Mid Life Fanatic http://www.midlifecelebration.com/midlife-celebration-is/mid-life-fanatic/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/midlife-celebration-is/mid-life-fanatic/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:28:39 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=1839 Continue reading →]]> Mid Life Fanatic. Why yes, yes I am.

Why wouldn’t anyone want to be a mid life fanatic? Actually, why wouldn’t anyone want to be fanatical about life? Period.

Fanatical. Defined as excessive enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is just another word for attitude. Attitude is up to you. No one else. Period.

We get one chance to have enthusiasm. It’s the time between our birth and our death.

Ya with me?  Seriously.  Are you with me?  Carpe diem :)

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