(photo: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus… )
Strong enough and brave enough to be different?
Authentic?
When?
Never?
Come on, seriously?
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Category: 1st month of retirement
Odds are high we like being stuck in our rut
(photo: Celebrate the fact that you are ready to change, no matter the catalyst.)
The comfort zone is a nice comfy place.
We like our rut. It’s so predictable And all our friends are miserable too. Birds of a feather flock together.
When we have had enough (which may never happen), we need someone to encourage us.
Watch and listen to what happens when you ask big-boy questions to leaders who should have ready answers, but don’t.
Now do it with yourself – ask yourself the big-girl questions you should have a ready answer to, but don’t.
We are all leaders.
You are the CEO of You, Inc.
Everything is your fault.
PS. This is exactly the kind of dialogue used in a self-imposed shut-up-or-put challenge that changed everything and led to, among several game-changing risks:
- Starting an LLC
- Writing five daily, differently-themed blogs in 2009
- Planning for six years to take early retirement
- Overcoming addiction
- Overcoming disability
- Etc, etc
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Are we suffering from midlife dream depression?
(photo: A dream.. name up in lights?)
Are we suffering from midlife dream depression?
Before you even think about clicking, know it’s a really long text.
The Doctrine of the Strenuous Life by Teddy Roosevelt.
Here’s jeff noel’s short and pithy summary:
Reach higher, care more, think deeper, and worker harder than those who have given up on their dreams.
Everybody good?
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How does one know if they are the right person?
(photo: A most unusual book… for the right person, the perfect book. The clock is always ticking.)
Mid Life Celebration was founded with an ulterior motive. To raise money, instead of asking for donations, for this disease.
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We generally suck at these three things, which explains our company culture
(photos: Placing us at the scene of the crime…third row, dead center… ha, ha, ha)
It all comes down to leadership, culture and time doesn’t it? A great culture doesn’t suck as much as a poor culture because the leaders are better at using their time to intentionally drive the internal service culture (the employee experience).
Two nights ago at the Walt Disney World Service Awards, we randomly sat in the third row, dead center for a special, one-of-a-kind (and one night only) return of the comedy warehouse.
The comedian took a moment to poll the audience and have them clap when their years of service were announced. We were the only two who clapped at 30, and were also the last two to clap – the senior people in the audience. Who knew? What happened next was the question, “What was the worst thing that ever happened to you at Disney?”
Here’s the freaky thing. A brain freeze. Nothing compelling was ever remembered as a ‘nightmare’, so the answer was supposed to be fun (yet true), “Leaving each day.”
They needed something juicier, so they pressed… and got to this, “Closing New Year’s Eve and opening New Year’s Day.” At Disney’s Grand Floridian.
The six performers sang a little ditty tying the two together and closed out the show.
In retrospect a key insight was revealed: a positive mental attitude can cure many things, like the daily frustrations challenges of working in a demanding, high-pressure, high expectation, expensive, can’t-say-no-to-the-Guests environment.
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