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Wildcard day, home

Garden state parkway sign — A segue to tomorrow’s posts? Maybe.

What’s a blogging challenge few, if any, know about?

Finding photos and videos to support the written content, five times a day.

Bonus unknown challenge: Knowing when to stop prolific blogging?

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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.

June 30, 2026, home

daisies — Allentown daises, not far from cousin Michael’s home. From a walk while up for Cheryl’s 50th high school reunion.

Daises are my favorite. – dad

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Blogging memories day 7, home

Disney Institute facilitators — From years ago, in 2014, on a trip with fellow Disney Institute colleagues. Walt said, “Laughter is no enemy to learning.”

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

Having fun.

Fun in quietly practicing everything we preached at Disney Institute.

Which eventually led to me coining…

“Only preach what you practice.”

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Blogging memories day 6, home

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

An important memory, and an important question from these two questions:

What will you write about?
What will you speak about after you retire?

Yes, here is one more question from the above two:

Q. How will i scale writing and speaking in a simple, practical, fun, and hopefully compelling way?

A. For starters, reveal to the world the secret recipe for balance: the deep, broad, and obvious interconnectedness between mind, body, spirit, work, and home.

Why?

Because most humans, including myself, believe it’s a balance between only two things: work life and home life.

My discovery, after chasing balance for four decades, is balance is built from life’s five big choices.

Tomorrow, i’ll share a blinding flash of the obvious, creative writing framework.

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Blogging memories day 5, home

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

Super busy, super ignorant, yet dedicated and committed to succeeding in building a Plan B that would be ready by the time i retired in 2014.

What i didn’t expect was to be super surprised.

What i gained from this heavy lift of ‘working two jobs’ surprised and delighted me.

The ‘extra’ work didn’t turn out to be extra, it turned out to be a personal leadership transformation.

The extra work was, to me, a self-directed case study, a self-directed MBA/Doctorate level education.

Never saw that coming.

A terrific memory about following your heart, pursuing extreme risk, and remarkable success.

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