Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
What do you do to feed your intellectual appetite?
What do you read?
What do you study?
Is your glass half-empty or half-full?
Who do you hang out with?
What do you watch on TV, the Internet, DVD’s?
These are all questions that only you can answer.
Do you?
Imagine two people. One has great answers and one doesn’t have a clue. Which one do you want to be?
Walt Disney died 44 years ago. Do you think he’d blog if he were still alive?
“Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestioningly” -Walt Disney
How much is enough?
Was speaking with my Banker friend yesterday.
As he was listening to the vision of Mid Life Celebration, you could see and feel his interest in it’s long-term dream.
The Mid Life Celebration dream is so far out there, it seems impossible.
And yet, at it’s very core, it’s so ridiculously simple and painfully obvious.
It’s the solution to life.
The Banker reminded me that “wealth” in one area doesn’t mean overall wealth, doesn’t mean balanced wealth.
And without balanced wealth, what do you think you get out of life?
At what cost will we agree to make significant change?
This question is based on the painfully obvious assumption that most adults are searching for meaning in at least one, if not all, of these big life choices:
What makes this nearly impossible for well-intentioned adults is how overwhelming it feels to begin making life changing transformational changes.
Because of this, most give up, even though they never admit it.
“The real problem of your leisure is how to keep other people from using it”. — Anonymous
Ain’t it the truth? Most of it is our own fault though. It is for me anyway.
Always trying to do better. Always trying to please others. Never satisfied with the status quo. Over-achiever. Workaholic. Can’t say no. The list goes on and on.
Here’s another truth, that no one wants to admit. We control our choices. Not the outcomes, but our choices.
While the outcomes are in the hands of a power we can’t begin to imagine, our choices are not. Our choices are ours.
You’d think we would have this figured out by mid life. Why is this so difficult to remember?