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One of a million tiny reasons margin is necessary

jeff noel balance keynote speaker — This blog is about HQ – the box that holds. the four smaller boxes

We had a safety deposit box for 10 years at a branch that is closing. For several days, i’ve been working on the alternative.

It has taken a disproportional amount of time to secure a safety deposit box at a new location.

This is one of the reasons why margin is necessary in our busy lives.

It’s so easy for some small, new to-do to throw our schedule into a mini tail spin.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our home health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my mental attitude website, click here.

Why aren’t we crystal clear with ourselves about this?

Disney University Lobby — Photo from earlier this week. A lifetime here is a heavy influence in how i think. In 1982, i worked on the second floor every Friday in Cast Activities.

It was weird in hindsight.

We talked at length yesterday about how powerful culture is. Everyone knows it’s critically important.

Yet like health, we don’t do much about it (today).

It’s something we save for when we have time.

The harsh reality is we never have time.

We aren’t organized enough to be crystal clear about our priorities.

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Today and tomorrow are incredibly busy

(photo: Lunchtime yesterday was a small bag of trail mix, doing nothing – just observing the students play at lunch.)

The Christmas ‘photo-card’ arrived. Addressed to Cheryl. A nice photo of the couple who sent it.

On the beautiful photo is a printed holiday message including the specific words, Merry Christmas.

Nice touch.

Would it have been more appropriate (to who’s standard) to use, Happy Holidays?

However if your life revolves around the birth, life, and death of Jesus, Happy Holidays falls flat.

Without any effort, a revelation.

How many years have we sent really nice cards?

Beautiful cards.

Sent to everyone we could think of.

Yet because there were so many, it was all we could do to get them addressed, let alone write something personal.

For all those years this was us. So sorry.

Merry Christmas.

(sorry for not being more personal… there’s a lot to do today) (and even more to do tomorrow)

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You’re really busy right?

(Photo: life is not a dress rehearsal)

You’re really busy right?

Even if we have free time, we tend to fill it with things we feel like we can no longer do without.

Always decently pressed for time. No?

One small backpack. No laptop. Three days. Two nights. Cab to and from Senior Living facility.

Blogging on plane with no wifi.

Be organized enough to be conscious enough to stretch out of our comfort zone.

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Busy as a beaver?

(photo: Morning view from Rising Sun Motor Inn cabin 5-A)

Was hoping by now to have written some really insightful posts from the Glacier trip.

Time.

Priorities.

Organization.

No one builds a reputation on what they’re gonna do.

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