When you accomplish something you never meant to do

Disney Conference Keynote Speaker
Yesterday i used “Burn the ships” as the driving force behind leaving Disney after 30 years.

 

When you accomplish something you never meant to do you have the potential to reflect on it in a profound way, but only if you aren’t too busy to miss the opportunity.

Self-reflection may be the most important tool for living a life focused on living in the moment.

Living in the moment is a dream for most of us.

To be present.

Constantly.

When you get to know yourself better, you can appreciate your strengths, which you might otherwise be oblivious to. Realizing the right strength (that had been invisible to you) can set you free to live in a way that astonishes you in it’s goodness.

When you get to know yourself better, you can appreciate that your self-imposed limitations do not serve you, or others, very well. This is a blinding flash of the obvious. This also allows you to shed what is holding you back.

Ultimately, you accomplish something you never meant to do.

Note: Use of personal photos on three of todays’ five posts is for SEO (search engine optimization) experiment.

 

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Things our Son (15) said yesterday

Father and Son at High School
Last night.

 

Things our Son (15) said yesterday:

  • You know what, you sound like a goody two-shoes.
  • You’re always smiling.
  • No, you didn’t embarrass me.

Sometimes as busy professionals, the gems are right in front of us, but we are too busy to notice. Here’s to noticing yesterday.

 

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Twenty-three days and counting down to the 8th year

Advent definition screen shot
Advent is the arrival of something.

 

We see inspirational messages about how someone started doing something unremarkable but over time it actually became remarkable because the person is still doing the same thing.

In a Universe full of “i got tired of it and stopped”, there’s a chance that the arrival – advent – of the eighth consecutive year of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts could be the start of something remarkable.

It never was, and still isn’t, the goal.

That’s probably the coolest part of the whole thing.

 

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Are you satisfied?

Disney Management Keynote Speaker
Keynote slide i use in my speeches. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

 

Are you satisfied?

The typical response is, “With what?”

My answer, typically, is, “With your life.”

Are you satisfied?

What do you plan to do about it?

When?

Why are you waiting?

What are you afraid of?

i hated my fear of failure and rejection.

 

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