I love what I do.
But in less than 4 years, I can retire with benefits.
I hope I have the right attitude to handle this amazing new opportunity.
the big picture on jeff…..
America's unheralded work life balance expert. Servant, Husband, Dad, Boomer, speaker, author, runner. Work is only work of you'd rather be doing something else. Allergic to most pollens and mediocrity. Can't wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.When is the right time to make your move for better work life balance?
Are you ready for a different look at everything that's important to you?Every human searches for meaning and purpose…
And in my search I've discovered the two most important days in every life........(more on that shortly)Welcome to an aggressively unfancy set of ideas.
Are you diggin' this amazing day? I don't think of carpe diem as a worn out cliche. I see it as a daily, moment-to-moment battle cry. Why should you even consider the two choices? Because life is not a dress rehearsal. If you'd like to be more in the moment and live like you mean it, everyday, then I invite you to read a brief bio below...Meet The Internet’s Only Five-A-Day Blogger (and America’s rising work life balance expert)
You've found the first modern day common man to crack the nut on work life balance. Hi, I'm jeff noel from Orlando, Florida. Every morning before my wife and son (11) wake up, I crank out five differently-themed blogs about life's big choices. Each post is short & pithy. Short because people are busy. Pithy because people need the truth. Been doing this for three years straight without missing a day. Crazy? Sure. But here's the thing - it's changed my life in unimaginable ways. Crazier still, I believe reading my five blogs may do the same for you.I’ve proven unimaginably better work life balance is possible.
The key? Life has five big choices. Not two or three, but five. So I don't (1) exercise, (2) pray, (3) think, (4) work, or (5) organize (my life) the way people say I should, or expect me to.In case you still don’t get it…I’m here to help.
I'm just a simple guy, aggressively unfancy, trying to help people (maybe you) live like they mean it!What’s in it for me?
The law of nature...you can not help another without simultaneously helping yourself. I'm an over-achiever like that.What’s in it for you?
If you hang around my five blogs, I guarantee you will begin to do one or more of three life changing things that no one else has been able to get you to do before: ReThink. RePrioritize. ReCommitWisdom comes from experience and experience comes from making mistakes…
A year from now you'll wish you had started today.The two most magnificent days in life…
The day we are born and the day we figure out ____. (the answer is in my blog content) If I tell you, you'll never understand. If you figure it out yourself, you'll never forget - and your life will never again be the same.Some comic relief:
Jeff,
I have always said that I hope when I reach retirement age, people will be saying, “No way. He can’t.” I don’t want to be the one who, at retirement age, people are saying, “He should have hung it up 5 years ago.”
So knowing how to finish well at the top of our game, so to speak, instead of resting on our past laurels and either coasting or burning out, gives us a glimpse into the Biblical notion of 2 Timothy 4:6-7. It states, “For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
It is fun to see people “at retirement age” that are nowhere near finished being “poured out,” and God still gives them the capacity, ability, and drive to be used mightily. With that in mind, man set the retirement age, not God!
Remember, “elders” in the Bible were revered and given more responsibility, not less, with age.
Have a great one,
Bob
Bob, thanks for your note. Been traveling.
Don’t want to stop working, just want to be open to new opportunities for God to use me as he sees fit.
Jeff,
You are open for those opportunities now, right? Just in case God sends you one of those opportunities now instead of 4 years from now.
Something tells me you are.
David, the clock is ticking for all of us. Somehow, God has blessed me with a focus on his fact.
It really is the second coming, when we die. At least that’s how I embrace it.
Why else are we told to be prepared for the second coming?
Embracing a deadline is a glorious way to focus.