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Sharing 37 things you’ll regret when you’re older plus five jeff noel bonus tips

Don't die with a book in you.
Don’t die with a book in you.

 

Buzz Feed published this article 10 days before the end of the year, 37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old.

To which we can add:

38. Don’t die with a book in you.
39. Don’t settle.
40. Don’t believe regret is permanent.
41. Don’t let anyone tell you balance is a myth.
42. Don’t die without reading Mid Life Celebration at least three times.
– jn

We have come to know the true meaning of living each day to the fullest when we actually stop waiting to do it and simply start.

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How organized could we attempt to be if we knew we could not fail?

Disney pre show area in Fantasyland
Life wasn’t simpler long ago, it just appears that way in our perception of the past

 

How organized could we attempt to be if we knew we could not fail?

The secret to being organized is simplification.

Paring down requires letting go.

Letting go worries and scares us.

So we don’t do it.

And we live with the drag of not optimizing.

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Would recalibrating our tipping point make us more effective?

roadside wildflowers in Tennessee
get close to nature and then get closer still

 

Would recalibrating our tipping point make us more effective?

If the things that make us crazy were less, instead of more, would we take more and better action sooner?

You know, would it inspire us to become more organized.

Or would it simply exacerbate our need for personal organization?

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What’s your email inbox methodology?

priorities
right now, neither one is worried about the in box

 

Yesterday while cleaning out older emails, this one about watermarking your photos had to go. Painfully, it sat in the inbox four months. Hopefully, in 100 days or so (today), I’ll be ready to act on it.

Breathing is easiest when there are fewer than five inbox emails. At 50 emails, stress rises. A lot. I’m down to 25 and will not stop until they are all read, filed, and or deleted.

Did I mention I’m on vacation today (and working, of course)? Yeah, being a small business owner can be stifling. I better get used to it – or get out.

Determination is the DNA of success – in anything – including a small email inbox.

 

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