Gratitude – Page 8 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

One of life’s most overlooked opportunities suffocates us

Disney Casting Center unique Disney door knobs — One good turn deserves another.

Midlifers at Disney's Casting Center — Creating Magic? Finally meeting after six years.

Why do we let what we can’t do stop us from what we can do?

How do you thank someone for their overwhelmingly remarkable demonstration of community?

One of life’s most overlooked opportunities suffocates us. And it happens so slowly, we don’t even notice.

We fear failing or embarrassment, so we wait and do nothing. This poisons our soul.

What if we simply did what we could, even if it felt small?

Because haven’t we been taught since childhood that it’s the little things that count?

Yesterday was unexpected proof.

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Please forgive the straightforwardness

Seri music match — Today is beautiful, even if we are broken – and we are all broken.

Here’s how high i’ve learned to aim…

Here’s the simple choice we all face, everyday, all day.

Focus on what makes us miserable or focus on what makes us happy.

Focus on what we don’t have = miserable.

Focus on what we do have = joy.

Aim so high it scares you.

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Thank you for purchasing, reading, and reviewing Mid Life Celebration

Florida Department of State Division of Corporations — Renewed yesterday, Jan 11. The real MBA comes when you manage your own business administration.

The wait is over. After 46 consecutive five-star reviews, the first non-five star.

Two stars.

Ecstatic to finally get some critical feedback. Seriously. It’s wonderful.

“A very quick read that gets to the heart of mid life. I was a little bothered that the author kept saying ‘you know this.’ All I kept thinking was, then why the heck am I reading this book if I already know it.”

So grateful to the person for investing their money to purchase, investing their time to read and their time to review.

The author could have said in the book, but did’t, that it was written to his young son as a life guide in case something bad ever happened to the dad.

The author (dad) was being intentionally repetitious with the reminder to his son, “You know this.” Yet the dad also is keenly aware of human nature:

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

So grateful. For everything.

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In a perfect world

(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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Always leading is a form of codependency

(photo: Took a run near a park… caught a fairly rare photo… both of these required one thing – time)

The frail, elderly man in the wheelchair who can barely walk…. is he strong or weak?

The middle-aged men or women racing from one life activity to another… are they strong or weak?

How do we know for certain in either case?

Decided to keep it very casual this visit.

Don’t want every meeting to be predictable. You know… thinker, deliberate, driven, determined, etc.

And don’t want every meeting to be driven by the same person.

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