Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Moral excellence, virtue
The truth hurts. The truth will set you free.
At midlife, we have an opportunity to: Rethink, Reprioritize, and Recommit.
Our challenge? We’ve ingrained our poor habits so deeply that it’s impossible to change.
Yet.
Yet there is an opportunity to overcome this. But you REALLY have to want it.
This is the part that gets tricky.
(2nd of my 5 daily blogs, click here)
Are we predestined, and without a choice, to be the person we grow up to be, or do we have the power to transform to something different?
If you grew up not liking vegetables, can you become a healthy vegetable eater?
If you were the shyest kid in your class, could you become a world-class professional keynote speaker?
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All that stuff I mentioned two days ago at jungle jeff has it’s roots in this idea:
No one can help another without helping themselves.
Many of you are practicing this as evidenced in your blog comments and emails. Together, we can pay it forward, pay it back, plant seeds of hope, offer encouragement, and stay positive in a challenging world.
So while the “numbers” grow, and that’s nice and all, what is really happening is the ripple effect. Thank you for being the engine that makes it possible.
The reason people who are successful have time to work hard is because they have traded their time trying to catch a buzz, for time trying to catch their dream.
There are enormous hours and energy wasted on having a good time.
But when the only one benefiting from your buzz is you, you are really being selfish.
Plain and simple.
When you decide to free up your time to create a buzz to help others, you’re whole life changes from meaningless to meaningful.
Mid Life Celebration is the opposite of midlife crisis. Not only in the words used to describe it, but in the attitude needed to be completely fair, good and decent – to be wise.
Yesterday’s post about Perez Hilton and Miss America was a controversial topic and I attempted to remain neutral.
And this is what a midlife celebration encompasses – a maturity that allows you to not judge anyone, for any reason.
Once you show intolerance to another, you can no longer ask others to be tolerant of you.