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In two short weeks on April 1, 2012, Mid Life Celebration, LLC will have posted five different, daily blogs for 156 consecutive weeks. Yep, three straight years, 1096 days. Thank you, Son, for inspiring me to make that innocent, but life changing 100-day challenge to overcome my writing inertia.
Insight: Life’s defining moments often arrive dressed in a pair of overalls, labeled hard work, no guarantees.
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Does life have five big choices? Yes. We have a mental, physical, spiritual, career and home responsibility. Neglect one of these and your life will reflect a proportional discord. Neglect two and life becomes proportionally more difficult and unbalanced. Three or more…
Insight: Just because no one has ever shared this model for life with you – that includes these five choices – doesn’t mean it isn’t a breakthrough for uncommon sense.
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Try to imagine knowing common sense but not applying it. Uncommon sense is doing what isn’t common, say, exercising, eating well, and resting well. Uncommon sense is also the key to sustainable results.
Disney has uncommon sense to focus on small, seemingly insignificant details that make their brand world famous. Why other companies wouldn’t study this, apply this, and expect similar results is mind boggling.
Insight: There are basic, undeniable models for everything from religion to business to personal.
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Google uncommon sense and there’s nothing substantial. But Google common sense and we quickly get Wikipedia’s answer – “sound and prudent judgement based on a simple perception of the situation or facts”.
So, my definition of uncommon sense: “sound and prudent judgement based on a simple perception that humans readily, habitually and abundantly ignore common sense”.
Insight: Knowing is never enough. We must apply knowledge.
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Looking carefully at the Church’s model and Disney business model, it helped validate my intuition that life has five big choices: mind, body, spirit, money and hq. In trying to envision a balanced life with one or more of these missing, I can’t.
Insight: Mind, body and spirit are readily perceived as crucial, but what about where we spend a third of our life (career) and were we spend the rest of it (home, the headquarters of our life)?
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