Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(photo: October 12, 2014. Pure Nursing. Love the tag line. Loved meeting the CEO.)
Few questions reveal with such clarity the leading indicators whether someone will thrive or merely survive.
Here’s the question:
Are you willing to be wrong, to fail, to look foolish, to dissent?
Growth implies risks, mistakes, failure.
Run to it or from it.
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(photo: Group photo of college buddies and their wives reuniting 30+ years later, on a North Carolina mountain top home of one of the guys.)
In a perfect world, everyone would be happy.
Impossible?
We are in charge of how we view the world.
Many insist you can’t be happy all the time.
Hmmm.
Can we be grateful all the time?
The answer depends on our attitude.
Nothing more, nothing less.
It all comes down to attitude.
And guess what drives our attitude?
Gratitude.
It’s not rocket surgery.
But it does require tremendous focus and discipline.
Which also comes down to attitude.
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(photo: Somewhere over Idaho yesterday afternoon)
How was your day yesterday?
Was it another day of going through the motions?
Was it remarkably cool (in spite of the burdens we all carry)?
How does our day look today?
These are choices we get to think about and strive to achieve.
Seriously.
Every. Single. Day.
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(photo: Ree is huge part of the glue that holds the reunion opportunity together)
The diversity of everything is such a blessing to appreciate. And being able to appreciate this diversity is a huge part of what drives our attitude, negatively or positively.
Some rise early. Some later.
Some take initiative. Some don’t. Some will help if asked.
It’s not a competition.
But do we take the small, glorious opportunities to illuminate as much positive light as we can?
(photo above: Illuminating is often associated with Sunlight. But we can learn that light doesn’t always shine brightly or directly. We can learn to shine anyway.)
All day. Everyday.
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(photo: So many people making so many choices… nothing wrong with a few shortcuts, right?)
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but it sure is tempting to feel sorry for ourselves isn’t it?
When someone mistreats us isn’t that automatic permission to lash back? But then we’d be a hypocrite. Or maybe, just human.
We push the envelope at work.
We empathize with mediocrity – the ones just going through the motions, maybe even a chip on their shoulder – knowing they have a hard life.
The harsh reality for the world, especially the pessimistic, is that everyone has a hard life.
Just because we don’t verbalize our excuses, doesn’t mean our list isn’t a mile long.
Yet we remain silent, not wanting to directly say, ‘Your excuses are invalid.’
We suck it up. We continue to honor our customers and peers like there’s no tomorrow.
On a related note, we wonder if our bosses honored their direct reports and peers the same way, what might happen?
Transformation?
Decent analogy is that parenting’s toughest job is knowing what’s really going on.
Same with leadership.
Most parents – and leaders – are clueless.
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