Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Faith, trust, belief, mysteries
“No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.”
– Leon Wieseltier
This is something that we all need to grasp. Our lofty, childhood dreams to do good and noble work may never be reborn in midlife, because Leon is right.
Kids rarely walk from one thing to another. Why did we stop running everywhere?
Are you crazy enough to dream BIG? I mean “Change the World” BIG!
Mid Life Celebration’s vision is to inspire just three percent (3%) of the male Baby Boomers to do something GREAT before they die.
From mending a Family relationship before someone dies, to helping to find a cure for an incurable disease, or something in between.
With roughly half of the 80-million Baby Boomers being men, that’s a target market of 1.2 million.
And then we pray and bank on the ripple effect. Any idea why?
We all have memories of our various rites of passage, don’t we?
And Spring Break reminds many of heading to the beach to scratch that spring-fever itch.
And every year, it happens fast and tragically, like it did here, in Florida.
Teenagers, alcohol, and inexperience.
And a young man, so full of possibilities. The world was his oyster, no doubt having some “good times”.
A misstep.
Then a phone call.
A phone call.
A phone call at a family get together, to celebrate someone turning my age (50).
Can you even comprehend that phone call? I can not.
I’m praying for this family, the students, and any one else touched by senseless tragedy this week.
“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.” — Robert Collier
What is the difference between confidence and arrogance?
What is the difference between self-assured and boastful?
What is the difference between succeeding and failing?
Odds are we’ll fail.
But at least now we know how to increase our odds for success.
“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim”. — Graham Greene
Wow. Then what does it mean, “If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”?
Simply this: You can set the bar low and reach a goal, and then wonder if you could have done better, eventually living with a certain degree of regret for not trying harder.
Or, you can set the bar impossibly high, give it your absolute best, fail, yet live with the satisfaction and peace that you left nothing on the table.
There are no guarantees in life. But you already knew that, right?