Goals – Page 5 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

One of the easiest ways to reduce stress

early morning work — A two-year-old smile-worthy FaceBook “memory” hit my feed yesterday.

One of the easiest ways to reduce stress is to lower our standards.

This is a short-term solution.

Very effective.

At some future point (a month, years, or decades even) the temporarily relieved stress can come back with a vengeance in the form of regret.

Life is hard.

Because life is hard, study, learn, apply, teach, and excel at a positive attitude.

At various times in life, setting the bar low could develop into an insidious lifetime habit.

Setting your bar low might seem reasonable, appropriate, and motivating.

Long-term, it’s anything but.

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Who’s stopping you?

fallen trees on a trail — Yesterday. The shortcut to the grocery store. These obstacles were easy to overcome.

Arnold Schwarzenegger speech — The long way is the short cut.

Who’s stopping you?

More precisely, “Who’s stopping you from becoming what you want to become?”

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Quick tip from local Baltimore midday news

Work life balance piece on local news. Watching from Hotel room bed.

Timely messages happen constantly.

Our challenge is hearing and reflecting.

Priorities.

Goals.

Many Americans don’t take enough vacation.

Their vacation banks grow as does their discontent.

Clear priorities will not allow this to happen.

Clear, concise, and compelling goals won’t either.

Go.

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If your goal isn’t impossible

perseverance — You are a runner and writer but not in that order. Cross Country race Saturday, read your book (what you’ve written so far) yesterday.

If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.

Reading the first 30% of your book yesterday blew me away.

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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.

When you accomplish something you never meant to do

Disney Conference Keynote Speaker — Yesterday i used “Burn the ships” as the driving force behind leaving Disney after 30 years.

When you accomplish something you never meant to do you have the potential to reflect on it in a profound way, but only if you aren’t too busy to miss the opportunity.

Self-reflection may be the most important tool for living a life focused on living in the moment.

Living in the moment is a dream for most of us.

To be present.

Constantly.

When you get to know yourself better, you can appreciate your strengths, which you might otherwise be oblivious to. Realizing the right strength (that had been invisible to you) can set you free to live in a way that astonishes you in it’s goodness.

When you get to know yourself better, you can appreciate that your self-imposed limitations do not serve you, or others, very well. This is a blinding flash of the obvious. This also allows you to shed what is holding you back.

Ultimately, you accomplish something you never meant to do.

Note: Use of personal photos on three of todays’ five posts is for SEO (search engine optimization) experiment.

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