Aging – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Aging is cool, home

high school track runner — 1977, 200 meters, Spring Grove Area High School track. We competed at the middle school track. The original High School track was only 1/5-mile. And “cinders”. #iykyk

car window decal — The real adventure is creating personal vibrancy. Which implies aging gracefully, healthfully, spiritually, mentally, and letting go of “work”.

Aging.

Advantage or disadvantage?

As i blog, my energy and inspiration ebbs and flows.

My desire to leave a trail for our son never wavers.

Why?

Commitment.

To what?

To leaving a trail.

And now that i no longer “work for a living”, have new goals that i never had before.

i absolutely need to capture in writing this new life-stage.

Why?

If i don’t he’ll never have a first-hand (ring-side seat) take on what aging can be – if you dream of personal vibrancy.

Ps. Been dreaming about personal vibrancy since – i don’t know – maybe 1999?

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Before one of us starts to forget, home

Before one of us starts forgetting, i’d like to start remembering…

Our first wondering about ‘what if’.
Our first apartments (Stephenson North and Scott-Coman) at Washington State University.
Our first Summer (1982) in Florida at Sun Club Apartments.
Our first year (Aug 1984-Aug 1985) in Florida, also at Sun Club.
Our first ‘starter home’ in Poinciana, with zero furniture.
Our first sleeper sofa in Poinciana, our first furniture purchase.
Our first Yellow Lab, Luther.
Our first hurricane.
Our first mortgage.
Our first Disney fireworks from our master bathroom.
Our first 401k auto-payroll-deduction.
Our first fire in our fireplace.
Our first year as parents.
Our first Honda Van.
Our first swimming pool.
Our first High School graduation as parents.
Our first College graduation(s) as parents: UniSC & Goucher.
Our first social security check.

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Aging at home

An aging home is a…

Gift.

Challenge.

Opportunity.

Final exam.

Ps. Repetition is the mother of all learning.

Pss. To know is to do. To know and not do is to not yet know.

Bonus: Never get bored with the basics.

Gold-medal bonus: Do there basics brilliantly.

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Hello transformation

Less than 24 hours ago. My favorite rock band of all time. Led Zeppelin’s fourth album (untitled) was the first album i owned. i was 12, maybe 13. It was a Christmas present from my same-age cousin, Redwood.

Hello?

Yes, of course.

Hello, CEO of You, Inc.

Go!

Go do your amazing end of life planning, structure, and process.

Blaze a transformative trail that doesn’t exist.

Note: Perhaps one day it will.

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Interesting time in life, at home

bus with Advent Health ad — Care for every dreamer. Start with yourself.

Interesting time in life.

Lots of stuff (belongings) doesn’t matter.

While accumulating stuff over decades, you can’t see what’s coming.

Eventually, say in your 60’s, you see the truth.

Now what?

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