What does pure joy look like?

North Carolina Mountain vegetation
On yesterday’s first hike to walk two Labs.

 

Chocolate Lab pup
Maggis is six-months old. We walked a mile, her distance was four times that.

 

What does pure joy look like? In the non-human form, i think it’s captured nicely in these two photos.

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Lower the bar on what makes you happy

Top wellness keynote speakers
Wearing this shirt all week in honor of Steve Prefontaine.

 

The joy is in the journey, not the destination.

Obviously there is joy in the destination, but why wait all that time?

Seriously, why?

Lighten up. Get focused. Savor. Lower the bar on what makes you happy. Lower it even more on what makes you grateful.

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Ever feel guilty for feeling great?

Steve Jobs Mid Life Celebration phone
Steve Jobs with Mid Life Celebration’s iconic red old-school phone.

 

Feeling guilty about feeling so good?

Ever feel guilty for feeling great?

Crazy thing though, the problems challenges faced in midlife are bigger than in our previous decades.

What’s different is our wisdom, strength, and patience to manage the stuff that’s in our control.

Self confidence grows through strenuous self examination.

It’s our job to master this and hone what works best for us.

Self examination can be steadily grown, even accelerated. Writing and speaking help.

And what helps even more is the time consuming preparation required to write and speak authentically.

How i do it and how you do it could be polar opposites.

Pretty cool huh?

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Happy Easter 2015

Nelson Mandela quote
Eight years and a life savings spent with no guarantee.

 

We leave the house in an hour to deliver “Food for Families” 2015.

We began doing this in 2000, about one month before the miracle of Cheryl’s pregnancy. It looked like we were never going to become parents, but if we ever did, we wanted to have a tradition on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter mornings that began in service to others.

PS. Just checking, you saw the photo’s bottom caption?

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