How difficult is it to know when to back off and when to charge?

best business trip in this lifetime
best business trip in this lifetime…Washington DC…June 2012 (4 years late)

How difficult is it to know when to back off and when to charge? Most professional people know how extraordinarily challenging it is to create work life balance in these tough economic times.

It the midst, but mostly way past reasonable, of our hard charging efforts to be excellent, we find victories of various degrees. This week’s was HUGE!

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Midlife Celebration’s jeff noel Has Never Felt More Desire To Write Differently

jeff noel, prolific blogger, aims For Excellence

Midlife Celebration’s jeff noel has never felt more desire to write differently. His passion to simply write, same as it was April 1, 2009 – the day the 100-day writing challenge began. What’s different now is that an incredible foundation, 4,500+ (prolific) blog posts, has relieved the urgency of leaving a foundational trail for his son (11).

With the foundation done, it’s time for some midlife creativity and Baby Boomer innovation. The desire to strike out on a generational game-changing path quickens his pulse. Vince Lombardi must have felt the same way.

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For Baby Boomers, Personal Leadership Begins With Choosing Between A Midlife Crisis Or A Midlife Celebration

Our Brain Affects Our Attitude How Much?

Midlife offers baby boomers two personal leadership choices. Have a midlife crisis or a midlife celebration. What’s the difference? Prolific Blogger jeff noel says it’s an attitude, a passion for life. To choose between victim or victor.

Excellent personal leadership is hard. Good and very good personal leadership are much easier. But jeff noel cautions that good and very good aren’t good enough. Not if you want to look back with few regrets.

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How Many Digital Neanderthals Does It Take To Screw In A Lightbulb?

www is like the department of redundancy department

The new return address has gone cyber. And even using www is like the department of redundancy department.

I can hear some of my digital neanderthal friends saying, “Yeah jeff noel, you get all that techie stuff”. To which I smile and think, dude, this “stuff” is like air. It’s everywhere and it sustains the world. Wake the hell heck up.

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Seriously, I Thought To Myself, Dude You Just Have To Dive In And Go

Well, saying it's too expensive is no longer an excuse, eh?

The other day we were talking about what we’d do if we won the lottery. Cheryl reminded our son that I always said I’d take more risks.

Diving in and going was a huge risk. Letting go of some old leadership paradigms another. And then there was this notion of uber transparancy posting five daily blogs for years on end.

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