Mid Life Celebration Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer is off today. So grateful for her contributions.
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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Mid Life Celebration Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer is off today. So grateful for her contributions.
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(photo: In Orlando, Mountains look different than ‘real’ mountains)
A blog comment recently acted as a catalyst for a brand new thought…
What allows people to not quit on a daily basis? For nearly all of us, quitting seems like a decent choice at least once a day. Could the antidote be having a clear, concise, and compelling vision of the future?
And here’s the epiphany:
Without the vision of what our future looks like, every mountain we climb offers us a view in which we then say, “Nah, that’s not it”.
We need to be clear about what we’re journeying to otherwise the mountain climbing gets old.
This happens in business all the time.
PS. This is from personal experience only.
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(photo: looks like a Roman warrior, or maybe the person in your mirror)
Rome was not built overnight.
Neither were our dreams.
And how important is attitude for the Romans and for us?
What about persistence to never quit?
And daily temptation to quit?
Never get bored with the basics.
Seriously, this is like for every single day we are alive.
Like today.
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(photo: We Are All Weird is a favorite book)
Yes of course she’s weird:
She is very intentional where others are not.
Bit of a freak to be honest.
And so at peace.
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(photo: So many people making so many choices… nothing wrong with a few shortcuts, right?)
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but it sure is tempting to feel sorry for ourselves isn’t it?
When someone mistreats us isn’t that automatic permission to lash back? But then we’d be a hypocrite. Or maybe, just human.
We push the envelope at work.
We empathize with mediocrity – the ones just going through the motions, maybe even a chip on their shoulder – knowing they have a hard life.
The harsh reality for the world, especially the pessimistic, is that everyone has a hard life.
Just because we don’t verbalize our excuses, doesn’t mean our list isn’t a mile long.
Yet we remain silent, not wanting to directly say, ‘Your excuses are invalid.’
We suck it up. We continue to honor our customers and peers like there’s no tomorrow.
On a related note, we wonder if our bosses honored their direct reports and peers the same way, what might happen?
Transformation?
Decent analogy is that parenting’s toughest job is knowing what’s really going on.
Same with leadership.
Most parents – and leaders – are clueless.
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