Disconnect From Hope and Enthusiasm

Connect to hard work.

The only way to become a better leader – and stay a better leader – is to outwork your previous self.

The others around you aren’t your competition, although we are tempted to live in that paradigm.

Our old habits of banking on hope and enthusiasm, yet not being willing to .think .differently will fail us.

We must become an insatiable student and a remarkable teacher of leadership excellence.

Then we’ll come full circle and we can again embrace hope and enthusiasm.

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Be A Yes Person

We understand the ready, fire, aim concept.

But do we live the essential essence of the opposite; intentional and proactive thinking and doing?

Years ago one of my favorite Disney colleagues, Dennis Frare, shared a statement that is one of the most profound truths i’ve ever heard.

To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know.

The value of the following yes-or-no questions is self-evident and irrefutable.

Have fun answering.

1. i have read at least 24 leadership books?
2. i am the most passionate student of leadership i know?
3. i subscribe to, and read, at least two daily leadership blogs?
4. i have personally written extensively (subjective) about leadership values and behaviors?
5. i teach leadership to others?
6. i have a clear, concise, and compelling vision?

These questions are the ticket to the dance. They are in no way all-inclusive. The road to excellence has no finish line.

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Ready, Fire, Aim

Before you go any further, ask yourself some honest leadership questions.

If you are unable to answer yes to every question, you should rethink your motivation.

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Stop piling it on

Do an inventory of your business book collection, business email subscriptions, self-improvement Facebook pages you’ve liked, and people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Quit buying business books you’ll never read.

Quit listening to podcasts.

Quit reading blog posts.

Quite surfing LinkedIn and Twitter for the next leadership nugget.

How much leadership information do you need before you can convince yourself you’re confident in your leadership convictions?

And is there anything stopping you from writing a leadership book?

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Fear is a liar

Life isn’t fair until you realize it is fair.

Life is unfair to everyone.

Many leaders felt threatened by Judson’s vision. Many thought it was laughable; it will never work.

Many, of which i include myself, thought it was the best thing and the most important thing to ever happen at Walt Disney World.

But the largest group of leaders (roughly 60% in the middle of love and hate) took a wait and see attitude.

This 60% is also known as the wait and see demographic. Cautiously optimistic, but realistically doubtful because they’ve seen promises like this come and go before.

Back to the fear.

The only constant is change.

The more things stay the same, the more things change.

Something is only impossible until the first person does it.

Every leader is responsible for making things better than they found them; to push past fear and doubt and risk.

If you let your guard down, fear will lie to you in an academy award winning performance.

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