Category: Rethink

After a lifetime, could external motivation be flawed?

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(photo: Disney Institute Facilitator job posting from LinkedIn)

We love succeeding. Titles, pay, office location, parking spaces, etc… all these are external motivators.

We love it.

Peak performance feels great doesn’t it?

External motivation is what we are taught to use to perform at high levels.

But what happens when we have no external motivators? No deadlines, no campaign, no cheerleaders, no cause.

Then what?

Dangerous isn’t it?

Or maybe, deep down, the motivation is really the solace we get from doing work that matters to others.

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The compelling case to do this impossible thing

Marriott Bohemian Orlando Art

 

(photo: Yesterday, downtown, Grand Bohemian Orlando Marriott, lobby art)

Is it possible to live stress free?

Stress management? Forget about stress. Live your life so that you don’t have any.

Then there will be nothing to manage. Stress management will be a thing of the past.

Got it?

Balanced wellness is the only antidote for stress.

Insider tip: This process takes decades, but when you arrive, peace and contentment.

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Are you willing to be wrong?

Galen College of Nursing email tag line

 

(photo: October 12, 2014. Pure Nursing. Love the tag line. Loved meeting the CEO.)

Few questions reveal with such clarity the leading indicators whether someone will thrive or merely survive.

Here’s the question:

Are you willing to be wrong, to fail, to look foolish, to dissent?

Growth implies risks, mistakes, failure.

Run to it or from it.

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Age is a three-letter word

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Are your dreams for thriving in midlife for sale?

 

Age is a three-letter word.

Our thoughts and perspectives are habits.

Staying convicted that aging is bad or good is the choice of only one person.

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The insane notion about our daily midlife expectations

High lift replacing parking lot lightbulb

 

(photo: Life has five big choices – represented by five palms – and each carries a different set of expectations… that’s a lot of expectations)

Yesterday. How’d it go?

  1. As expected?
  2. Better than expected?
  3. Much better than expected?
  4. Worse than expected?
  5. Much worse than expected.

What’s interesting in all five questions is the notion that what we expect is the measure against what actually happens.

And what actually happens is probably insanely influenced by what we expect.

And this goes on day after day until we die.

Today’s mental thought continues with a physical thought for the day at the Next Blog