I remember seeing him on the moon with my brothers and parents around me.

And, if he can “dance” at 80 – I can create my next act too.

Keep creating…it freaks people out,
Mike

From the time you signed on to my twitter @workecology, there was some spark in you that spoke to me across the screen. It was not about what you did, it was about who you are.

Now I have a better sense of what that means relative to you and your open heart.

When I wrote my coaching brochure last year, and took 3 months to really finish it off like a work of art (you can download it from )http://www.laviniaweissman.com, I created a theme for it based on
this quote from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol:

“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t
believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t
had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.”
- Lewis Carroll,
Alice in Wonderland

I think a person who is honest about change has to have the same attitude of the “Queen of Hearts,” to believe that which is impossible.

Yesterday I answered a question on Maria Shrivers site, “Can Women women have it all?”

I started life in a career I loved in health care and did absolutely extraordinary work as a practice leader. At that time I was young and it was before I had my daughter. I would have at that time answered the question to Maria with a simple, “YES.”

Yesterday I answered the question stating, “I have it all, I get up each day, I can breath, I am a live and I love life; that is what having it all means to me now.” The rest is icing on the cake, I find ways to express gratitude for, thank others for their contribution and respect the miracles and gifts I never expect to receive.

I coach people who “live with high degrees of uncertainty.” For the most part, these are people who live with a chronic illness or recover from a life threatening episode of health and have to reclaim there life by design at home, work and in community again.

This does not mean we can do it all. We can do some things well. Buzz Aldrich represents a great metaphor for that. I would vote for him any day over a person who is seeking to have it all the way many people do the “Hollywood way.” That is not to say that all Hollywood people are greedy or bad. Some I respect count their blessings and share their abundance with others with a deep purpose to make a difference.

Beautifully said.

It so interesting to see how change can be empowering and uplifting, or – when we resist change – debilitating and depressing.

Your post is so timely with our book on Embracing Change due to be published in the next week. Since writing the book with you, I am seeing such beautiful examples of people embracing change to accelerate success that they are having in various dimensions of their life. With his embracing of change, Buzz clearly has accelerated his happiness (and that of his lovely wife who seems to be enjoying his participation almost as much as him).

Since writing our book, I am also more attuned to those I see fighting change. So sad! I hope that our book will help this latter group. Becoming a dinosaur is a fate I wouldn’t wish on anyone!