Have You Tried Acting?

Finals. World Championships.
Finals. World Championships.

You can (but make excuses not to) embrace my tag line here at Lane 8: If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.

Or you can subscribe to a more famous person’s quote. Either way, we’re saying the same thing.

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Dorothea Brande

Dorothea Brande wrote the quintessential how-to-write book, Becoming a Writer, which was among the first to address every writer’s core problem: How to sit down and let the words flow. Her book, published in 1934, remains in print today.

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How To Feel Young Again

It’s inevitable, isn’t it? No stopping it, is there? Not a single person is immune from it.

The aging process.

The more we read and the longer we live, the observations remain conclusive – feeling young comes down to the basics.

This Everyday Health article, 10 Ways to Feel Young Again, just arrived a few minutes ago. I enjoyed the quick reminder that there are specific “basics” we can do to feel younger and more alive.

Predictably, one of them is “join a cause“.

While We’re On The Subject

Yesterday’s post included photos from Disney’s Epcot Theme Park in Orlando, Florida – my home for the past 27 years. When we moved to Orlando, from Washington State, I told Cheryl the goal was to live within five minutes of Disney World.

Our first apartment – 18 miles away.

Our first home – 30 miles away.

Current residence – one mile away.

Guess where we work?

What does this post have to do with health and wellness? Everything. Balance and doing what you love.