Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
It’s challenging to have an extraordinarily positive attitude because of two phenomenon:
What most of us forget is that it is simply the price one pays to push through limits others say can’t be done.
Olympic gold medal contenders have to think and believe that they are better than everyone else in the world.
Arrogant?
Required?
Required.
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Is it weird to feel guilty for having so many nice things happen to you?
Begging some questions:
And then some days goodness rains down on you. Is that fair?
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PS. A day full of goodness is not without pain, temptation, sorrow, failure, just to clarify.
What follows is my opinion from 15+ years of being on the inside listening and observing professional speakers and writers of all sorts.
Quite remarkable isn’t it?
All the advice on the web and in print. Anyone can publish anything.
Most of us aren’t writers. So we have no clue at a conscious level about embellishment and editorial license.
Embellishing is easy. And hard to disprove. So we believe everything we read.
But do these writers and speakers practice what they preach?
Rarely.
But there are a few.
Very rare.
PS. Posts like this come along occasionally because of their cathartic value.
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Our ability to control our attitude is greater than anyone will ever be able to convince us.
It’s way greater than we have allowed ourselves to believe.
But here’s a little secret.
There is no secret sauce.
There is a sauce, but it ain’t a secret.
Worked at Disney for 30 years. Spent a lifetime learning from the best inside the Disney organization. Spent 15 years at Disney Institute teaching Disney’s business insights to global companies.
Disney’s secret sauce is simple and not a secret. It’s the relentless discipline to always focus on overmanaging things others undermanage or ignore.
Organizational vibrancy is the result of being intentional where others are unintentional.
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(photo: Walmart parking lot.)
The Seagull is making a statement to the other birds wanting a piece of what’s in that box, “Back off”.
Are you strong enough?
Less than three weeks for a one-year experiment to conclude.
Grueling.
Tiring.
Revealing.
When you become famous, nobody looks at you as a human anymore. You become public property. – Beyonce
There are books in progress that will raise Mid Life Celebration’s public profile.
A goal so ridiculously big that fame is worth the risk. -jn
Remember, none of these words for a year: I, me, mine, my.
Why?
Because for a prolific writer to not use them is impossible.
PS. Not even in emails, social media updates and comments. Insanely difficult. Ludicrous.
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