Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.
Yesterday’s Mid Life Celebration post had a simple, key, repeatable message.
Mavericks take uncommon action, not to stand out, but to achieve more.
There’s more to life than titles, money, and not getting left behind, blah, blah, blah…
Wait, you still haven’t learned what success really is, have you?
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Walt Disney, one of Humanity’s all-time greatest mavericks…
Maverick – noun: A lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.
A few months back, I searched Go Daddy for some domain names from a brainstorm. Midlife Maverick was taken.
But I discovered a brilliantly written article from the owner, Colin Hiles, entitled “The Big Idea That Changed My Life Forever”.
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Dear Son, I’m blaming you (and Mommy) for loving me…yesterday at Epcot:
Chapin, it’s your fault I started writing five daily, differently themed blogs. Remember? You wondered why your 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Hoback, made you read 20-minutes, out loud, every night.
I wondered why the promise to write your book – filled with Life’s secrets – hadn’t been started. Which prompted a 100-day challenge to write in all five blogs, every single day.
April Fool’s Day, 2009 seems so long ago…
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Last night’s sunset, driving home from Gold’s Gym…
“You can’t staff vision”. – John Maxwell
Yesterday is over. By this time tomorrow, today will be over. You can’t hire people to make you passionate about life.
You must figure it out for yourself. You have everything you need, even if you think you don’t.
There have been a few glitches with the first best-selling book. Stay tuned…
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It’s so easy to miss the constant change that happens right before our eyes…
Lorie Sheffer has been a featured, weekly blogger at Mid Life Celebration and has her own page of posts. Here’s Lorie’s latest, “Taking Care”:
“If you took as good care of yourself as you do the rest of your family, you wouldn’t be here and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”
My doctor said that to me a few years ago. He told me that I was not the first person he had ever said it to. In fact, it is a line he repeats almost daily.
Why do we treat our loved ones better than we treat ourselves? Looking back, I think of the times I would make my grandson’s lunch, taking care to include some raw veggies and fruit slices. Then he would lie down for a half hour nap while I ate the crust he left from his sandwich, multitasking laundry, dishes and wiping sticky fingerprints from the walls. Or those summer days when everyone was having fun swimming in the pool I had just spent all morning cleaning, while I was inside preparing a meal for them to enjoy. I don’t think that I am alone in this, either. At least according to my doctor I’m not.
It is not selfish to say “no.” It does not mean you are negligent if you make someone help him or herself while you take a few minutes for you. One of my very favorite friends, who has obviously learned to take care of herself, said it best this past Christmas. She told me that her husband had said he sure would love to have some fresh baked Christmas cookies. She handed him a cookbook and went out to get a pedicure.
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