Tag: Balance

How much planning ahead is the right amount?

Hotel lobby tourist brochure rack
This is the tip of the iceberg for all the brochures on the tourist rack

 

Insight: The biggest part of making dreams comes true involves two things. Seeing the dream clearly. Figuring out how to make it happen. Profoundly simple. Simply profound. For example…

How much planning ahead is the right amount?

Did you catch the lowest right brochure ‘art is...’ because planning ahead can be art if we do it in a way that balances under doing it with over doing it – and infuses our highest priorities into everything we plan for.

The husband and wife of 56 years never expected a visitor from Florida.

Classic wow: under sell, over deliver, because only one person (yours truly) knew it was a remote possibility.

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Note: Surprised in-laws with a four-hour visit. Some day, sooner rather than later, one of these visits will be the last we see of each other.

 

It is really challenging to do it all, but there’s a catch

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It’s incredibly challenging to shed old, deeply-entrenched, unproductive habits. And with five big choices in life, this makes it exponentially more challenging.

But here’s the catch no one tells us.

Success in one lends to success in another.

I recommend slow and steady progress, never ending focus, indomitable will, and a healthy balance of humor and seriousness.

Getting increasing closer is a blessing of power ball payoff.

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Oprah, quick question

Oprah magazine about decluttering
De-Cluttering our life is worth it’s weight in gold

 

Oprah, quick question. Have you de-cluttered enough to find time to exercise?

Work life balance, done well, speaks for itself, with or without a world class television show (or magazine).

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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