Challenges – Page 2 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

48 hours later

(photo: The sun going down as the two-hour conversation reaches a good place to stop, for now.)

The walk yesterday afternoon was the last thing anyone could have seen coming.

Maybe two miles and two hours later they had finished the most important part.

Getting to, “Where do we go from here?”.

What looked like a simple father and son walk was actually a monumental conversation.

And so it goes.

They decided to give the next conversation a four-day deadline to happen – by New Year’s Eve.

The conversation yesterday had no deadline. But it did rely on a 14-year old’s courage to start an adult conversation. He didn’t initiate it, circumstances did.

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What if we quit but stay?

Disneyland high attendance during Spring Break 2014 — So many people, so many challenges

Each day is an opportunity to make mundane midlife daily living a glorious privilege.

Except if we die at 30 and aren’t buried until we’re 80.

The pressures, the news, the challenges.

These things never go away.

Figure it out.

Get good at it.

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Midlife keeps challenging us – are we grateful or do we crumble?

Pool deck umbrella stand blown into pool — A little thing like this and a big thing like Aortic valve repair surgery for a parent (91) – on the same day

Life is gloriously challenging.

Or.

Life is unrelentingly challenging.

It is the latter for everyone.

It is the former, also, for a smaller group.

Former colleague, mentor, and professional trainer, J. Jeff Kober, wrote this post today with some very kind accolades about Mid Life Celebration: rethink • reprioritize • recommit

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We all know the answer to this common midlife dilemma

Mid Life Celebration book and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame marque — How audacious is it to think you could start a movement that would change things?

This quote struck me while sitting in a Cleveland hotel room, sipping the morning’s first cup of coffee.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
– William Stafford

We all know why we stop. We don’t share the same exact reason, but we do all pick from the same generic list of excuses.

It took me 30 years to write the first sentence for Mid Life Celebration: rethink • reprioritize • recommit.

Took two more years to finish it.

Took two more years after that to get the guts to commit to publishing.

I get what you get and hear what you hear and fear what you fear, but kept going anyway.

Here’s to you.

(click the link below to get to the horrific Saddam Hussain post told by my cab driver)

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Is finding a creative, unique way to find joy an art form?

rubiks cube — Art doesn’t have to be colorful or complex, but it does require thought

(note: little longer than normal post)

Our struggles are our friends, even if they do not seem so. As you read the struggle here, contemplate your own, and what will it take to inspire you to keep moving forward.

Struggling with writing 100 days ahead. Why? Because it’s weird. And yet at the same time, it feels like art.

Art is doing something differently than tradition. Or it can be doing tradition differently.

Perhaps you even do something remarkably.

In a way that others remark.

Compliments?

Complaints?

Doesn’t matter.

When things are done the way they have always been done, there is no conversation.

Today is the first day of Autumn and it’s the third day of the new year.

Does it even matter?

A resounding no – for almost everyone – for the herd.

Art?

To some, possibly.

What is our art?

It might be the way we live our life or the way we help others.

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