The greatest reward in life is teaching yourself how to live vibrantly.
And in doing that, you teach your family.
A parent’s two jobs are to protect and to teach.
To teach is to learn twice.
Be the person that encourages others to .think .differently about personal vibrancy.
These rare people are important.
Hope you enjoy unwrapping this glorious gift.
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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.
Circa 2014: My Castle turret sketch for a graphic designer.
Another version of the Castle turret. Created a bunch of these to help a graphic designer see what i was saying.
We teach without a plan.
How?
We teach with our behaviors.
Our behavioral habits demonstrate what we actually believe in.
The unspoken challenge (and unspoken opportunity) is to become self aware.
Self aware of our limited efforts to shed the unproductive things we do. The unproductive habits that develop over time because in the early stages, they brought us pleasure or eliminated pain. We welcomed that in those earlier days. And we will become what we repeatedly do, so those insidious mechanisms to create pleasure or to avoid pain are unconsciously who we are.
Everyone close to us knows it.
Our original plan to create pleasure or avoid pain are counter-productive to identifying our life’s priorities in a prioritized order.
A vicious cycle that quietly moves from generation to generation.
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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.
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.
Everyone who discovers my 14 years of prolific, five daily, differently-themed blog posts writing habit has to be thinking, WTF (Wow, that’s funny).
Explaining how is challenging. Explaining why is easy.
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Why? i enjoy it and cannot help myself.
How? It’s a long and creative story. It will not make sense. Sometimes, even i don’t understand it.
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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.
7-second video: Avid photographer, videographer – many people are. Also a news reporter? Any of us, potentially. Avid exerciser too? Any of us, potentially. Doing pull-ups and such when i noticed this. Bonus insight: Nature is beautiful and brutal.
Don’t listen.
Watch.
The story never lies.
What you do thunders so loudly we can’t hear what you say.
Totally get that anyone’s behaviors may seem to contradict what comes out of their mouth (or onto the page). It is the same with me, with you, with everyone.
Strive diligently to be remarkably kind.
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