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i knew them all

head in the sand mural on wall
Sometimes life overwhelms our home life…our job is to mitigate this each time it happens.

i knew them all…

Every one of our Property Owners Association residents…

Ever.

i’ve known them all.

Starting with the original ‘settlers’ (pre-1990)…

Abney, Vercammen, Rennells, Powell, Spore, Donkel, Renaldo, Nguyen (?, the ‘farmers’ with the pond).

And everyone since 1990.

We have always been a lowkey, pleasant community.

State Road 535 widened from two to four lanes between 2008-2011.

Either side of 2015 the future caught up with our community and we never collectively rallied around proactive, modern-day thinking.

The pressures of an attractive location near Walt Disney World, plenty of new housing and new infrastructure, year-round palm trees and sunshine, plus a never-ending exposure to global tourists….

Tension.

Ambition.

Fear.

It’s tested and grown my creativity, resolve, and optimism.

We will flourish again. Sooner rather than later.

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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.

Short jaunt from downstairs

two story home foyer steps
Carrying a DIY bookshelf upstairs.

Enjoying the gentle, small glimpses of rediscovering a more carefree jeff.

How?

Shedding stuff (for years and years).

Shedding work/career responsibilities (one final “consulting” client – my favorite and longest). This one is a significant catalyst. A recent decision to commit to officially stop.

Note: Still gladly doing Disney Customer Service Keynotes. Never feels like work. Dedicated my life to synthesizing Disney’s world class customer service reputation into something that anyone can do.

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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.

Chores and such

sprinkler hose
Dry winter. Getting a jump on priming some of the tropical plants for Spring. It’s February now.
5-second video: The group of seven wanted to do Small World. Who am i to say no?

Been focused on doing important personal and business paperwork.

Sprinkling in some yard work. Fresh air and movement is the same as recess as a kid.

Since adults are simply older kids, i never want to miss recess.

Note: The recesses are getting extended and more frequent. Why? The warm weather has us yearning to be outside in the dirt.

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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.

AMP

Handwritten notes on a piece of paper
Things that add to your paperwork of life. Travel. United States column and Australia column. January was a busy ‘work’ month. Had many calls to coordinate.
Australian university info sign
Very first UniSC photo. Local and regional customs, mandates, laws, etc, can change from what you know at home.
Family of three posing on a college campus
Second UniSC campus photo.
College campus safety info board
Tenth UniSC campus photo.
Prepaid mobile phone plan receipt
A day later. Grateful each of our phones had e-sim capability. Looking back, it was way too involved to establish an Australian mobile account. We physically had to go to a store and work with an associate. It was cumbersome and clunky. But it had to get done.
Australian equivalent of 911
Something as simple and routine as calling 9-1-1 is different here. Better know this before you need it. Australia’s 911 is 0-0-0.

AMP.

Means what?

Always More Paperwork.

Life’s In-Box.

It ebbs and flows as you ebb and flow through life.

It ends when you end.

Note: i’m banking on a plan that will minimize any in-box surprises for whomever is the Executor of my will.

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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.

The paperwork of life

Post-it note with handwriting
Days later, still working to close my Old GoDaddy Legacy account. Multiple calls, on multiple days, to multiple people. A few emails too. The drag from ‘administrative friction’ puts unproductive strain on our time and psyche.
Oil leak on concrete under a car
Same unwelcome drag when one issue, car repair, becomes a series of domino-effect unresolved administrative chores. Pictured here is a new oil leak, after $3,600 (and three weeks). Will have to return to Action Gator Tire and begin again to ask, “Why is this happening? It wasn’t happening before i brought it to you. Please exceed my expectations, if possible.”
iPhone alarm clock setting
Getting eight hours of sleep is a daily ‘to-do’. It is never on a list though. It’s an automatic (atomic) habit. Actually got nine hours last night. Yay me. Day seven, Flu-A. Sleep is recovery medicine.

The cosmos.

Inexplicable.

Hard to articulate.

But i feel a cosmic energy shift in my commitment to minimalism.

Note: i envision less of everything is more of everything. It sounds paradoxical. Which is in my wheelhouse. So that feels like money in the bank.

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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.