Dear Son, some vacation it turned out to be

A rack with hundreds of bronze, silver and gold medals
what if kids could earn medals and trophies for personal responsibility?

 

Dear Son, some vacation it turned out to be. Rationalizing that busy Christmas vacation days are necessary to keep Mid Life Celebration moving forward while also playing catchup on household projects left undone earlier in the year.

Great argument for why parents should teach kids organizational skills early, so kids don’t have to spend their adult life making up for decades of distractions (and medications) from the daily grind.

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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

 

The fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

100 consecutive hours is a long stretch of time
work life balance
same but different

Partying and wild times are stereotypical Saturday night activities, as is sitting in a Church pew on Sunday morning. Depending how long you go at it Saturday night, you may still smell of the good time in Church. Yet they are two distinct arenas.

Where does a traveling business professional distinguish time for work and time for life? A five day trip leaves a person gone from home 100 hours.

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PS. Open-ended post on purpose.

Things fell apart today (again)

balance
we did Twistee Treat yesterday, since I am out-of-town this week

Things fell apart today (again). Thank goodness for being decently organized. No run this morning. No gym visit either. Both were scheduled. Instead, re-focused energy were it was more needed.

Balance is a pendulum, not a gauge, nor a bullseye. Learning how to ebb and flow with this is a learnable talent.

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Note: This post was written from 35k feet, well past the normal morning routine.