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  mm1234

Mon, Aug 25 12:27 PM

Finally 50!

 

Today is the day after I turned 50 years old.  to be honest, I don't feel any different than I did 10 years ago.  Unfortunately, I really haven't done a lot since then either.  I'm still in the same old job with the same old company.  And it's not even a job I like but I'm still meeting the expectations other people have of me.

 

Beverly Sills once had a charm bracelet and one of the charms said "IDTA".  That means - I Did That Already.  I'm adopting that as my motto.  When I feel the pressure to do what people expect of me and making sure I don't hurt anyone's feelings I'm going to think "IDTA" and move on.

 

Today is really the first day of the rest of my life.  I resolve to do one thing that I enjoy every day, even if that one thing only takes a minute.  Maybe it's listening to the birds in my back yard.  I have many feeding stations set up and I keep them filled, I just never take time to actually appreciate the birds.   I'm making a list of all the great movies I've never seen and the great books I've never read.

 

The exercise - that's a different story.  I need to find some way to motivate myself and I'm not sure what that is yet.   I love to make lists though and maybe I'll come up with a list of daily motivations, inspirations - maybe play the Rocky song every morning. 

 

I really feel like I've been waiting a long time to turn 50 and now that it's hear I'm actually excited to start making plans for the next 50 years.  These are the 50 years that I get to do what I want, not what other people want me to do!

 

IDTA!

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