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.
Getting old is not what throws us, it is the slow decline (to nearly zero) in our investment to nourish and care for our positive attitude – against the never ending onslaught of negativity bombarding us in the news.
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Can midlife parenting become an art form? Driving our son (13) to school yesterday, I told him the big picture is for him to look back and say:
Growing up, I was the luckiest kid on the planet.
The night before we talked about me no longer managing the how to do things, but to now facilitate his judgement and decision making skills.
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Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
– Freya Stark
Midlife crisis is spending our life chasing our dreams and finally getting there, more or less.
But in looking around, we think, “This isn’t what I wanted!”
Deep breath. Exhale… Remember all those things we promised ourselves when we were younger?
We should do them. But when?
Our biggest midlife challenge isn’t desire.
It’s time.
Finding time to… Pause.
Time to simply breath in and, maybe, actually, to take back…
Take back a little time to do something for ourselves that’s long overdue.
To… well… quite literally…
rethink • reprioritize • recommit
To re-shuffle our deck so to speak.
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Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Our excuses often lead to regrets, and regrets can lead to life’s biggest wakeup calls. Wake up calls provide an amazing opportunity. However, what is missing in the midst of this is permission to change – to rethink, reprioritize, and recommit.
Midlife crisis is spending our life chasing our dreams and finally getting there, more or less. But in looking around we think, “This isn’t what I wanted!” Mid Life Celebration is using our gut-wrenching discovery, also known as a wake up call, to change things. Stop waiting for permission. Go!
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Why is it that some people seem to confuse “mistake” with “conscious choice”?
It’s a mistake to accidentally grab the salt, thinking it is sugar, thus ruining an entire batch of cookies. It’s a mistake to call someone by the wrong name because you honestly were confused, or to unintentionally mistake a person for his or her look-alike sibling. Taking a wrong turn and getting lost is a mistake. Mistakes are unintentional.
When someone steals, lies or cheats, they are making a conscious decision to do so. At some point, they have given themselves permission. They didn’t make a mistake; they knew exactly what they were doing. The mistake may have been thinking they wouldn’t be caught, or thinking they wouldn’t regret it, or thinking there would be no consequences.
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