Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Focus, discipline, mastery
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.
In life, it’s not the material things that matter. How many times have we heard that? Makes sense to us too, doesn’t it? Stuff is not important, people and relationships are.
So then, let me ask you, do you own your material possessions or do they own you?
Please consider doing yourself a favor and read this. It’s not what you think, it’s better. And it revolves around an epiphany from a cross-country backpacking trip. Yeah, everybody is so stinking busy. Busy accumulating stuff.
“Have you ever had a midlife crisis?”, I asked the US Airlines flight attendant yesterday as we were waiting to disembark in Orlando. We sat across from one another, face to face – me in the exit row aisle seat, her in the “jump seat”.
The middle seat next to me was empty, and in the window seat was Mark, another US Air employee. Mark and I spoke at length, and he spoke with the flight attendant across from us, but I did not. Not until that question.
With an unanticipated wisdom, she replied, “Not really. I think it’s a guy thing.”
Clarifying, I added, “I’m not talking about the stereotypical convertible sports car, younger woman thing, I mean when you journey through life and arrive at the place you worked your whole life for, and suddenly realize it’s not where you want to be?”
What she said next really surprised me, “That’s because we don’t know who we are.”
Bingo!
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.
What all of us want out of life is to live it uninhibited. To be set free from our fear is the ultimate achievement.