The Great Summer of 2012 – Page 17 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Two biggest things that cloud our mind set

risk — painted rock in middle school classroom, spring 2012

Two biggest things that cloud our mind set:

the effort to keep up with things
the effort to try to get ahead with things

I spend so much energy trying to do both that it’s often difficult to remember the basics in life.

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The main worry in life is….

The main worry in life is not in dying, but in never truly learning how to live. When we have lived with purpose, joy, peace, and love, dying is our final great earthly accomplishment.

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Only four bucket list items remaining?

bucket lists — a friend's book from a noted author. I've written 6k posts about living before you die.

The most cathartic thing I’ve ever done – and continue to do – is write these five blogs on Life’s Big Choices. I’m not gonna preach to anyone that they should start a blog or keep a journal. Instead, I’ll simply ask you if you understand the power of writing things down. Do you understand? Do you do it? That’s all I’m sayin’.

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Courage can roar or be as quiet as a whisper

Dinoland at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, courage is that quiet voice that says…I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Yesterday’s birthday post was subliminally profound (imho). Through (mostly) subtle tweaks, I keep trying to make these five blogs as useful as possible. Here’s an interesting example of how the new blog posts are different from the old posts.

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What’s the most fatiguing task?

too bad we don't get, "We've detected an interruption in your commitment to living"

The thing that wears us down more than anything else, it would seem is… something important we start but never finish. And as I turn 53 today, the goal of reaching 60 has gotten three years closer – in what seems like the blink of an eye.

What fatigues us is getting started with ambitious life plans when we’re younger, but somewhere along the way, we pull off life’s highway and never get back on.

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