Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Simplify not complicate
Even if you are not a sports fan, and especially if you’re a sports fan, you’ll want to watch this You Tube video I shot a month ago, at the request of a fellow professional speaker. Little did most of know how close John was to his final day.
ESPN once named John Wooden the Coach Of The Century. That’s any sport, for the past 100 years. Do you have any earthly idea what mindset that requires. There’s a hidden, and overlooked, secret to life in this video.
Do you enjoy quotes? Most people do. What is it about quotes that draws us to them? For me, it’s the ability to summarize something profound in a small sound bite. It’s the simplicity that does it. What does it for you?
Here’s one of my favorites:
“It doesn’t matter what I say and do, it only matters what you say and do.”
Any guesses on who said that?
Finding your purpose in midlife is a beautiful thing. And it may be as simple as the exercise described in yesterday’s links.
As I was reading them and reflecting on them, it occurred to me why I still had a reservation about the whole idea of writing down, and re-writing until it made you cry, your life’s purpose. A brilliant idea, by the way.
It reinforced Mid Life Celebration’s approach as solid, valid, and important. I was very grateful for the opportunity to have my thinking challenged.
Here’s the secret no one wants to admit. While setting a goal as important as your life’s purpose is critical work, pursuing it with passion and tenacity for the rest of your life is a completely different story.
It reminded me of lofty and meaningful New Year’s Resolutions. They usually fail.
And that’s why this midlife blog is helpful to all of you facing an impending midlife crisis, or those of you smack dab in the center of one right now.
Here, everyday, you’ll find a small insight, tip, or story – in real time – to help you pursue your life’s purpose with passion and tenacity. Every day. Got it?
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.
Are you crazy enough to dream BIG? I mean “Change the World” BIG!
Mid Life Celebration’s vision is to inspire just three percent (3%) of the male Baby Boomers to do something GREAT before they die.
From mending a Family relationship before someone dies, to helping to find a cure for an incurable disease, or something in between.
With roughly half of the 80-million Baby Boomers being men, that’s a target market of 1.2 million.
And then we pray and bank on the ripple effect. Any idea why?