busy – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Busy is not sexy, home

Apple email screen shot — Life is good with a zero-inbox, but it takes a lot of work.

photographers surrounding an Apple product unveiling — Has anyone ever shown us work life balance simplified? Photo: From an Apple and Steve Jobs magazine article.

Why is being busy not sexy?

Why?

Wait, you haven’t figured this out yet?

Having your act together enough to finally prioritize your priorities?

Now that was a cool-life moment for you.

Love the way it makes you smile.

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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.

Hold on, home

Landscaped well equipment — A couple decades ago, our neighbor, a lifetime carpenter, constructed a dog-house-looking mini-shed for our Well Water equipment. Stumbled on this picture.

Told our friend Brian that it’s been a busy start to the year, and we’re five months into it.

And i’ve been so busy that i haven’t adequately been able to lean in and enjoy this space where i am no longer working.

Several important projects, several important travel arrangements, have consumed my energy and head-space.

This is nothing i’d change and it’s nothing i regret.

Simply multiple big things one after the other for five continuous months.

Ready for some light at the end of the projects and travel tunnel.

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The trap to be busy, home

The Store Is Now The Living Room — What was once a one-room corner grocery store was long ago converted into the living room. My first visit was in 1979. i’ve only known it as the living room. Cheryl’s Mom was born in this house and lived here until she moved to Senior Living at age 91.

Gotta do more, be more, get more.

More what?

Do, be, and get what makes your life whole.

Be careful with the trap of more.

More is rarely enough.

This lesson takes decades, at the earliest, to learn.

Be careful.

Pay attention.

Have fun.

Get and stay vibrant.

Then find a million ways to stay motivated to live with prioritized priorities.

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Nine clouds, ten clouds

Nine clouds, ten clouds?

How many did you notice?

Two days ago?

Last week?

How long do you watch them?

Why do you watch them?

Almost always, the clouds are moving.

i’ve found that random glances never reveal movement.

Stationary clouds are a fallacy.

Yet…

Stationary clouds, i think, are a stereotype that creates lifelong cloud-watching avoidance.

No two days worth of skies in our lifetime will be identical.

What a gift of never-ending variety, compliments of the Cosmos.

Ps. ‘Scuse me while i kiss the sky.

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The work is never done

The work is never done.

Ever.

Until it is.

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