Excuses – Page 8 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

i think about all the choices that are easy to make

i think about all the choices that are easy to make.

What we watch and listen to, and who we hang out with – what drives our choices?

The art of living vibrantly is in discovering, and then mastering, the will to make the tough choices.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

Think like you mean it

Mid Life Celebration keynote speaker — There are a million+ excuses why i haven’t begun writing the first of seven Disney books.

The Internet is full of excuses, although it’s unlikely any of us would need help creating a long list.

Excuses will remain until we confess our undeniable purpose in life.

And if we don’t know what that is, we need to find out.

Live like you mean it.

Note: As an adult, we don’t need to do anything we don’t want to. Dangerous to have so much power over our thoughts. Things changed for me when i saw the trap i created by thinking like that. Nearing my 40th birthday (1999) i began .thinking .differently

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

The guaranteed antidote to regrets

Is procrastination to blame for my regrets?

Is it to blame for yours?

Yes and yes.

Consider this guaranteed antidote – a deadline.

If we want to have a better future (healthier, wealthier, smarter, more content, etc) we create wonderful dreams in our minds about how we’re going to change.

But we fail to attach a deadline, thus enabling procrastination to never feel compelled to end.

The reason we avoid deadlines is two-fold:

We think we have forever
A deadline is too much pressure for something we don’t need right now

Long-term procrastination makes us a spectator in our own life.

The frustration is severe because it wasn’t that we never finished our dream, it’s that we never got started in the first place.

Deep regret.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

Dream like you mean it

Dirty shirt of a shot putter — This dirty shirt may be the start of personal transformation.

Take your dreams seriously.

Seems so obvious.

But alas, we rush through our day, hoping to get back to our dream tomorrow.

We all know what happens with this habitual cycle.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

Refrigerator art for midlife

Epcot landscaping — Yesterday after lunch, walking back to our car. The walk, and the time and conversation together, was not urgent.

The urgency of daily living feels like a good reason to abandon the important thing we postpone for later.

We become more aware of the reality of our time on Earth and the limitations placed on us by our life’s choices, and the evaporating options remaining.

Looking back, we can’t remember what that urgent thing was. All we have to show for it now is the the habit we didn’t change.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.