Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(photo: The opportunities to learn are informal and formal… and endless… to make learning an exciting adventure)
Back to school excitement is in the air.
We used to have it this time of year when we were that age – middle school.
What happened to us?
Never let your memories be bigger than your dreams.
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(photo: How many apps we have is a decent indicator to many other things… simplicity is the ultimate sophistication)
You don’t hate it enough.
Hate smoking enough and you’ll quit.
Hate being overweight enough and you’ll quit being overweight.
Hate feeling alone enough and you’ll quit feeling alone.
Hate being in debt enough and you’ll get out of debt.
Hate relying on alcohol enough and you’ll quit drinking alcohol.
Hell yeah these are bold statements.
You know how it’s possible to absolutely know?
Will give you one guess.
No theory at Mid Life Celebration.
Ever.
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(photo Lorie Sheffer: Is it possible to have balance in a busy, demanding, distracting world?)
We live in a society that rewards hard work. We see those with type A personalities as successful and admirable. Advertisers use high priced cars and expensive watches and huge homes as trophies. Our children are encouraged to take on as many extracurricular activities as possible, not be satisfied with less than stellar grades and set their sights on top notch colleges. Only the best is good enough. Anyone caught sitting around doing nothing will be slapped with a “LAZY” label.
While hard work and setting goals is good, where is the balance? The last time I was at the beach I remember seeing a man having a business conversation on his cell phone while his wife was running around trying to keep their 3 small children from throwing sand in people’s faces and from running into the surf. Good provider or future heart attack patient?
There has got to be balance. There has got to be down time. If we can’t turn it off and sit back and just enjoy life, then what is all the hard work for to begin with?
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(photo: Constantly remind ourselves not to judge because we are not in their shoes)
Most of us will not be consciously aware of the transformational change that a wakeup call potentially brings.
If we ever thought about preparing to die… getting all our affairs in order so we can do and say the things we feel are most important… any form of ulterior motive is mute.
None of those motives matter, because death is around the corner.
Who cares about material things, or titles, etc?
No one who is counting their days.
If we could live like that without a sense of eminent death, how glorious would that be?
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(photo: Is 7:30am the right time, on a Tuesday?)
When is the time right for an unbelievable day?
The opportunity for unbelievable days is limitless. What if we began the day praying, reading, thinking, writing. What if we acted as if we had actually made time for this?
Sharpening the saw as the saying goes. Could an ordinary day be given new life?
Instead of simply driving directly to the hotel parking lot and making a bee line for the classroom we did this…
We rethink the start of the day.
We drive first to the city shuttle, park there instead of the hotel and ride the shuttle to the north end of town. Then we could walk beneath the city and come up on the south end, down by Main Street. Take a brief stroll down Main Street before traffic gets busy, then cut over to the local Hotel to get to the classroom where we’d be a student for a week learning from one of the world’s most admired companies.
Simple pleasures taken for granted.
Dreams?
No, not really.
This is a common privilege, rarely taken.
But not yesterday.
And so it goes, one day and then another.
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