The Lost World Museum. You are probably wondering what this is all about. Before I explain, may I take a moment and say that IÂ really appreciate that you are here and before we go any further, let me introduce myself. My name is John Adolfi – married, mortgage paid, one dog. My wife Christen and I live in a Central New York stone house with our Lab dog Moo-Moo. Now here is some historical info that will lead up to why we are all here in the first place.

After being honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1985, I went to work for my father’s real estate company and am now a Broker operating Adolfi Real Estate.
At 45 years of age I have spent the last 6 years in a midlife crisis. However instead of tackling a second marriage, piercing my ear and riding a Harley, I opted to keep my first and only wife and revisit my childhood hobbies I used to engage in. (More on the hobbies in future posts.)

Harnessing the energy of this midlife thing, I thought to improve my mind and increased my reading from ZERO books a year to about 20-25 a year. To me, the subject matter of the books I read is critical therefore book content I read is mainly self-improvement, business and bios including P.T. Barnum and Walt Disney (Two men who have greatly influenced my life – especially Barnum.) Early morning is when I crack the books and the Bible to do my reading. Fictional stories are not my favorite unless it is for a greater purpose and not for entertainment’s sake. Non-fiction, as a child, was attractive to me and has continued so until today.

From mind improvement let’s go to the body. Exercise is a discipline I’ve mastered and yet still struggle with 3-4 times a week. My wife is a great cook and we eat mostly vegetarian. Christen and I both attend religious services weekly at a 150-year-old country church we both met at.

Everything I’ve been doing the last 6 years including dropping recent hobbies (not the childhood ones) and freeing up time, has been for a grand and higher purpose. All my energy has been spent to achieve a goal far greater from anything I have ever attempted in my life. And that is creating the Lost World Museum.

In the next blog you will read how this idea even got started, how it lay dormant for years and how one friend helped this goal begin to materialize.

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