Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(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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(photo: Whoever wrote this could have used the same color chalk for every word…but they didn’t… this is how simple art can be manifested)
Why would an Orlando based motivational speaker write five daily blogs instead of a single, focused daily blog?
The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list, and (especially) doing it even if you’re not on the list. – Seth Godin
Because being a life balance expert requires specializing in five areas, not one.
It’s five times as much work.
Kinda like trying to attain balance.
Life is hard work no matter if we have balance or not. Balance has a ripple effect that makes everything less challenging.
This is why the work is worth it.
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The challenge with living like we mean it is there is so much to choose from. Then add to that the unexpected, but regular, challenges life throws our way.
Every single day we have more than we can handle. And what we can’t handle today gets added to tomorrow’s list of normal things plus a growing list of things we don’t have time for.
And we wonder why we are stressed out.
What do you do everyday because you’re passionate about it? And hate when you don’t get to do it?
So add to the daily ‘live-like-you-mean-it’ recipe the dissatisfaction that comes from not getting to embrace our passion.
The constant temptation to short change our dreams.
Time.
It all comes down to time doesn’t it?
And priorities.
And balance.
No?
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