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.
“Courage is the human virtue that counts most — courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.” – Robert Frost
Limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s where hope and faith take over to guide us. In midlife, we ought to be completely full of hope and faith. So much so, that we are firm enough in our convictions, that we’d put our life on the line for them.
What would you die for?
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He said, “The people who are born here and never leave to see other places have no idea what they have. They can not understand the freedoms and blessings they have”.
He went on, “Paved roads, schools everywhere, hospitals everywhere, freedom of speech, democracy”. (He contrasted these against the Blood Diamond culture he grew up with)
Mohammed is a very wise man. He is a Father, and a cab driver. He is from western Africa, Sierra Leone. And he came to America six years ago. Our 25 minutes together yesterday was eye-opening.
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I could be wrong, but adults, particularly primary care givers, shape a child’s attitude more than anyone else. And along the way, while we are showing and involving them in life, we might miss the opportunity to explain “why” certain things are important, taking the “why” for granted.
I did not do that Saturday. While we didn’t get to speak directly with Teresa, we did get to speak with her husband and her college freshman son. I told our son (10), “We’ll learn about politics together”.
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If anything can go well, it will.
Sure beats the tried and true opposite, doesn’t? Don’t even need to tell you, your mind automatically knows which phrase is exactly opposite.
New studies and evidence discard the old brain thinking dogma. That the brain is hard-wired. It can not be changed or altered.
Sunday’s at Mid Life Celebration are known as “Lorie Sheffer Day”, our faithful, funny, an insightful guest blogger.
She sent me two interesting links that I feel compelled to share with you:
Many midlife Baby Boomers and Generation X-ers are carrying out their career sentences by being a good dobie and simply going through the motions.
And some are captains of their own ship, industry leaders, game changers and change agents.
Other midlife Baby Boomers and Gen-Xer’s are already forging ahead with their once dormant plans to become small business entrepreneurs.
What ambitious, aging entrepreneurs are finding is that marketing is the bottom line. They are also discovering that they are not very good marketers.
And the Internet and it’s wealth of Social Media, most of it free, are the keys to marketing.