Tag: milestones

You can’t be serious

Disney Keynote Speaker Jeff Noel
Halloween, 2014.

If Disney ran my retirement, Disney would insist i have daily habits and rituals that bring me joy, purpose, and laughter.

dad

You can’t be serious.

Right?

You’ve been writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts for how many years without missing a single day?

Yes.

Why?

Daily, balanced writing brings me peace and contentment.

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Tax Day, 2000

8-second video: Wrote last year about this exact experience and what it taught me about Grizzly Bear and human interaction. To witness it laid the foundation for a once-in-a-lifetime experience a few days later.

One of the first times intentionally using a specific date – to help remember the “anniversary” date – was April 15, 2000.

Tax Day 2000.

There’s a penalty if you don’t do the work by April 15.

There’s a penalty if you don’t do the work to get and stay healthy.

In 1999, was disgusted (devastated?) at how far apart my intentions to live a healthy life were compared to my actual behaviors to live a healthy life.

Rationalized it took me years to get so slothful that i could reverse engineer a slow and steady comeback. Not in one or two years, but over the course of five-10 years.

Thus began running from our mailbox to our next neighbor’s mailbox. Once a day for a week. Second week, two mailboxes a day for a week. Third week, three mailboxes a day. Etc.

Tax Day and one-mailbox-a-day.

It worked.

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Spiritual 2021 wins

couple in mountains near Grizzly bear
Coolest encounter in nearly 50 years of visits. Cheryl and i were the only ones on the mountain – miles from any other humans. The brown spot between us is a Grizzly. Not far from Piegan Pass. We stayed for an hour. We left when the Grizzly left.

Spiritual 2021 wins:

  1. Maintained spiritual vibrancy all day, every day
  2. Spent four weeks with Cheryl in GNP
  3. Exploring neighboring Church as potential “primary” Church
  4. Concluded second year of weekly calls with Mom
  5. Added Lori to weekly calls with Mom

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You were born to give

Typo. No one is perfect. If Disney Ran Your Life….

Yet another debt of honor for which there can be no fulfilled repayment.

Only repay what you are able for as long as you are able.

All of the following are verbs:

Give.

Serve.

Surrender.

Breath.

Hope.

Love.

Write.

Today, when this goes live, the 12th consecutive year of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts begins. Yesterday concluded, obviously, the 11th year without missing a single day.

In the giving, you receive.

Speaking from 11 years of writing experience.

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You know what’s hard to believe?

family values
In a moment 4 years ago, we were asked to list our values. Immediately wrote mine down. Few people can write theirs immediately. Write yours down right now. See what i mean?

You know what’s hard to believe?

Couple things:

  • Haven’t had a drop of alcohol in 19 years
  • Have written 20,000 blog posts
  • Have written 5 daily blogs for 4k+ consecutive days

Even wilder, no one cares, yet the streaks seem heroic.

To me anyway.

Find your reasons to do what inspires you and brings you joy.

PS. Regarding reasons, you’ll need at least a million of them.

The list:

  1. Honesty
  2. Behave admirably
  3. Personal responsibility
  4. Self-control
  5. Initiative
  6. Fun

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