Know why there aren’t many guitar or drum solos on the radio?

Nashville airport musician trying to make the big time
Nashville airport musician trying to make the big time

 

The main point: I’ve been writing longer pieces than usual, and hope to cut back – for your sake.

Live music, in concert. Few things as exciting. At some point, the guitarist, and the drummer, gets a few minutes to individually go off on a riff. We enjoy it because we’re a captive audience, and it’s stuff we can’t get on a CD.

Know why there aren’t many guitar or drum riffs on the radio?

Because even if it’s valuable, outside of a concert, people don’t have time for it.

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Anyone else fascinated by how heavily we bank on the future?

Delta flight sunset from 35k feet
We fantasize about what we’ll do differently in the future

 

Anyone else fascinated by how heavily we bank on the future?

What is it about the fantasy of a future state where we have so much less to worry about or occupy our time, where we can spend countless, glorious hours, days, weeks, combing through our stuff?

For what? To live in the past?

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Are the struggles and sacrifices to get ahead worth it?

A November 2012 screen shot of jeffnoel.com landing page
A November 2012 screen shot of jeffnoel.com landing page

 

Are the struggles and sacrifices to get ahead worth it? We must look into the mirror and answer this question for ourselves. No one else can do this for us. It’s one of life’s biggest gambles.

Deep down the answer is, yes.

Day to day, it feels more like, no.

Contrast above pic with current home page.

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This month I’m inviting the Mid Life Celebration community to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. It couldn’t be easier to go from this HQ blog to the mental attitude blog , just click -> go to Next Blog

 

Is 1,000 Facebook Fan Page Likes a milestone?

Internet reality
An Apple a day makes the world smaller, prettier, and cooler

 

Is 1,000 Facebook Fan Page Likes a milestone? Mid Life Celebration is nearing 1,000 Likes on it’s Facebook fan page.

You know as well as anyone, the Earth is hot, flat, and crowded. It’s challenging to reach milestones like this.

Motivation is like a fire, remember?

This month I’m inviting the Mid Life Celebration community to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. It couldn’t be easier to go from this HQ blog to the mental attitude blog , just click -> go to Next Blog