A thriver's guide to physical health and wellness
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Lane Eight
The danger in making goals achievable is what if we reach them? Then what? Will we wonder what we could have done if we would have tried harder?
jeff noel could have set his sights on a state championship, or national championship. Why stop there?
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Lane Eight
Lane eight is the worst lane assignment in Track & Field. The slowest runner gets this lane. A word of caution here. Never let the worst lane, or even finishing dead last worry you.
Perhaps that would be impossible, to be in Lane eight. But what if it was in the finals, at the world championships. Dead last but eighth best in the world.
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World Peace? Please.
Let’s bow our heads, please, for a moment of silence…and remember where we were when the world stopped turning…
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Oh, and after Nationals, the Olympics, right?
jeff noel remembers the first Masters Track meet he ran in 2005. Immediately after that 400 meter run in 62.5 seconds, noel was (immaturely) ready to start thinking about the National Championships.
Noel even thought he could go to a big-name running shoe company and work out an endorsement deal. The wise meet organizer just smiled at his comments; he had heard and seen them all before. Many times.
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How long before this....
....became this?
Serious running requires start-up investments in a runner’s time, money, learning, practice and growing from their new running experiences. Serious blogging requires the exact same start-up investments. Here’s what’s even crazier… jeff noel has found identical elements in growing Mid Life Celebration, LLC. Perhaps three years, usually more, before enough mistakes have been made and a baseline foundation for upward building – in running, blogging, and, business.
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What a nice, polite sign for a life-destroying habit
The glorious and frustrating thing about life is the paradox in every situation. We know smoking is bad, but we feel so good when we do it. We know if we quit smoking, our health will improve and we’ll save money. We know if we keep smoking, we’ll enjoy the nicotine buzz, plus we’ll have no need to change, making us happier.
Feeling good is good. Feeling guilty is not. Ultimately, the long way is the short cut. Life gets easier without smoking induced illnesses. It’s a different type of buzz.
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This is what's known as a blinding flash of the obvious
The more jeff noel learns, the more he discovers just how much he has to learn to deal with it all. The trick, jeff says, is to sort through the cluttered, noisy world to uncover two simple things:
And just when you think you know it all, something new comes along to facilitate doubt, say 9/11, a layoff, cancer, burglary.
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Catchy Title
The top caption says, “Little things, it turns out, are extremely important to happiness.” Ok, was this not obvious that we’re just now realizing this? Here are a few of the little things that make humans happy:
As we near or reach midlife, these things are not entitlements, but privileges that must be earned. And what’s really awesome is that it’s our responsibilty.
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Ok, Have Thought About It And Don't Get It. 
To say jeff noel is a thinker might be a huge understatement. Most midlife adults medicate and distract themselves from the obvious truth – to stay relatively healthy, we must work hard at it. There is no other alternative.
So what jeff noel said yesterday, don’t take it personally.
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Boats were not meant to stay in the harbor
It’s official, jeff noel is no longer going to feel sorrow for readers who can not find time, desire or urgency to read through all five daily midlife celebration blogs. To think that working on life’s five basics every day is too much is like asking for life to be easy.
There’s about three percent of the human population who gets the interconnectedness and critical balance for Life’s (5) Big Choices to integrate and weave together seamlessly. jeff noel writes specifically for you.
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Mind, body, spirit, money, and hq...
You see four of them below. The fifth is the "box" the holds the other four...
America's unheralded work life balance expert. jeff noel, is a Servant, Husband, Dad, Boomer, speaker, author, runner. He believes work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. Allergic to most pollens and mediocrity, he can't wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.