Are your steps doomed from the beginning?

Delta airlines napkin — Truth. Keep climbing. Our world needs you. Photo: From yesterday’s flight.

Warning, this post is not short and pithy, but the rest of today’s are.

Being in a position to solve important and interesting problems is a privilege.

The only way you find yourself interested in a problem though is if it aligns with your passion(s).

And then there’s…

The first, difficult, and potentially catalytic task for solving an important problem….

Calling it out.

This can embarrass and anger people – usually unintentionally.

You know, speaking up about what could be better when no one has a clue right now how to make it better.

Most people sense ~~the world’s~~ America’s biggest problems, take obesity or the divorce rate, for example.

But big issues are easy to ignore.

Why?

Because they’re hard.

So we stall, we wait, and we do nothing.

Before any real work gets started, we convince ourselves we need:

Certainty
Easy answers
A quick fix
A guarantee

If we need any of those things, we’re making excuses not to start. The search for quick, easy, guaranteed and certain results will undermine our creativity to begin.

And without the first steps, the next steps, and the ones after that, well, they never get taken.

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Worried about the future?

Calvin and Hobbs — Chapin sent me this last night. He showed it to me as we sat together in the Family room. i requested it, not knowing how i’d use it until after i wrote this post.

Worried about the future?

Prove it.

My theory is most adults could eliminate much of their worry if they cleaned up their own bank of lifetime habits first, before expecting someone else to change.

Yes, there are exceptions, but the odds of you being the exception are low.

Could ask dozens of simple questions, but for now, try these on…

When was the last time you exercised?

If we could see what you actually eat and drink in any given month, would you feel good or not so good?

When was the last time you began your day on your knees? And the time before that? Was it this morning and yesterday?

Is there breathing room in your cabinets, shelves, drawers, medicine cabinets, and closets?

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Did you welcome this morning with a nice sense of anticipation?

Disney Retiree benefits — Imagine your excitement if you were waking up to go to Walt Disney World this morning.

Did you welcome this morning with a nice sense of anticipation?

What if you did?

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Betting on lucky

Highline Trail — Hiking Glacier National Park.

Betting on lucky?

Most of us do.

But lucky never happens.

Well, it does happen…and something or someone goes viral.

But Facebook, Amazon, YouTube and Usain Bolt are a microscopic part of humanity and business.

And their luck was the result of a lifetime of focus and discipline.

The rest of us (all of us) need a much better plan than a lucky break.

Bank on a lifetime of focus and discipline.

Focus on the basics (mind, body, spirit, money, hq).

Discipline yourself to never waiver from that strategy.

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November 30th meet December 30

First principles thinking — First principle, without any help from Elon Musk – Think For Yourself.

November 30th meet December 30?

i love writing in such a way that there is no pressure on me to write to please others.

i used to worry about writing ahead – not posting live, but posting in the future. Kinda the way many television shows are recorded and then aired later.

Stumbled upon it on a 14-hour flight for a Disney Institute engagement because i was worried i wouldn’t have time the next morning to write.

Had just learned how to schedule a post to publish on a future date. In preparation for this trip, i wrote a post while still in Orlando for the morning i was worried about.

As luck would have it, my fear never happened and i wrote that morning, 14-hours from Orlando.

This meant i now had a surplus of five posts (one day’s worth).

Bottomline: i’m currently writing 30 days out – in this case, 30 days before New Year’s Eve.

So i’m thinking about the ineffectiveness of resolutions.

i’m also thinking about how December 30, 2001 was the last day i drank alcohol.

Turns out, for determined people, you figure out how to conquer your fears and follow your dreams – no matter what day you decide to commit.

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