Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(photo: A few days ago as we were walking to Japan for lunch.)
What’s keeping you on edge today, recently, or coming up this week?
Retirement is the wrong word to describe life right now.
Career change is what’s happening. Received the second pension check (direct deposit) this morning though.
Weird.
Weird is good.
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(photo: Boxes of food waiting to be delivered to needy families on Thanksgiving morning 2014 – two days ago)
Do you have end of the year holiday traditions?
Why?
For how long?
How’d they start?
Why do you keep them alive?
Ever do something for so long you start to take it for granted?
Maybe, right?
What about daily traditions? Is there such a thing?
What about attitude traditions?
Say, making a tradition of subsituting challenge or opportunity in place of problem?
Can a once a year tradition and daily traditions transform us?
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PS. One more day of ‘first month retirement’.
(photo: A game changing book and message for the person who is ready to change their game)
Attitude scales. Attitude is what we think and do without thinking.
Habits. Deep, unalterable habits.
Positive thoughts or negative thoughts.
Our mind habitually leans to one side or the other.
This is the most important revelation to mid lifers because it proves that attitude is a habit.
Habits, like smoking, can be incredibly strong and hard to break.
Habits, like not swearing, can be incredibly strong and easy to break.
rethink • reprioritize • recommit
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(photo: Are we capable of being a personal positive attitude hotspot for others to get energy from?)
Whether we are retired or not, the way to stay positive is reliant on four things:
Pretty simple. These things are in our control.
Be intentional or be subconsciously miserable.
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(photo: Yesterday at a stoplight)
The weirdest thing about attitude is that we all start out thinking about the same types of lofty goals. Why most people stop is a great mystery.
Is it fear of failure that holds us back?
Probably.
But here’s the rub.
Not going is the same as failing.
So why not go?
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