Change – Page 16 – 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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Waiting for the perfect time to get it together?

(photo: Conferences are a great place to learn, obviously.)

Conferences are also a great place to teach. “Ever thought about that?”, he said to himself.

“The important work of reshuffling our life’s priorities should not wait to be done until our conditions are perfect”, he also said to himself.

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Change is the only constant in midlife

(photo above: two notes… the date and time on the bottom red line (9/11 5:27am) …and Detroit departure time of 7:07am on the very top.)

(photo: PDX Delta Sky Club view courtesy of a colleague with Diamond status)

Flying home from Portland, Oregon yesterday, September 11, there was a heightened awareness of change.

Not from the horrific tragedy in 2001.

Rather the keen sense of the drastic, impending change brought on by another dramatic moment in the near future.

Retirement.

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What is unclear here with Maya is whether this was an epiphany

(photo: rethink • reprioritize • reccommit?)

What is unclear here with Maya is whether this was an epiphany about herself or about our world.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. – Maya Angelou

Because everyone knows our world needs some work.

But who knows about the change we need to initiate?

No one? Not even us?

Seriously?

Rut roe.

Ya with me?

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Dear readers, Happy Thanksgiving

(photo: first day of school parking lot welcome sign… how will children learn if not from our wonderful example?)

Thanksgiving is both 100 days away and it is here today.

One profound thought 100 days ago for us to read today, Thanksgiving.

Change one to change everything.

What if we never criticized another person for the rest of our lives.

And what if we channeled all the things we thought needed fixing in the world – what if we channelled that energy, that critical eye, that passion, all the compelling reasons why – what if we channeled it into fixing ourselves?

Change one to change everything?

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PS. If you’re newer here, jeff suffers from writer’s flood. He writes so prolifically that what gets written each morning must get in the back of the line of a 100 (day) post surplus.

And if you’re new, he writes this blog plus four other different ones. An actual surplus of 500 posts. Click the hyperlink ‘Blog‘ to move between the five.