Mid Life Celebration » Mid Life Websites 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 Reading Is Fundamental http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-movement/reading-is-fundamental/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-movement/reading-is-fundamental/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:10:14 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=2012 Continue reading →]]> “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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]]> http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-movement/reading-is-fundamental/feed/ 0 An Old Ironic Habit http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-herd/an-old-ironic-habit/ http://www.midlifecelebration.com/the-herd/an-old-ironic-habit/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:52:24 +0000 jeff noel http://MidLifeCelebration.com/?p=1841 Continue reading →]]> “It is an old ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way”. — Rollo May

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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Discipline is remembering what you want.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.

If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

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