Tag: Growth

It’s easier to quit when we are disappointed

Disneyland room headboard and hidden Mickey

 

(Photo: Disneyland Hotel room headboard. A nightlight built in. Along with a “hidden Mickey”.)

When it comes to shaping our attitude, the long way is the short cut.

Take this blog (and the other four Mid Life Celebration blogs) for example.

Many bloggers begin writing because they believe:

“If you build it write it they will come”.

Everyone who’s ever blogged knows this is a lie.

The bloggers who continue to write (in spite of the lie) well past a reasonable amount of time discover something.

It’s not an audience we write for, we write for ourselves. Because we need the writing. For ourselves.

A writer, probably, will stop writing when she no longer needs it.

You’ll be the first to know.

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You know that feeling when it overwhelms you?

Walt Disney Legacy Award presentation
Lee Cockerell (far left) gifting the very first copy of his second book, The Customer Rules.

 

You know that feeling when it overwhelms you? When someone does something for you that is so wonderful, and so extraordinarily unnecessary?

Profound humility.

And when you realize that you are actually doing the same thing for others but didn’t understand the magnitude. This is a moment.

Two days ago, Lee Cockerell provided a milestone catalyst that changes everything. He has a track record of being that type of person to the world.

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Sometimes triumph doesn’t mean proving anything to anyone

Orlando sunrise near Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

 

(photo: Yesterday morning’s walk before work)

Lorie Sheffer has been a Saturday morning guest blogger for over four years.

She hasn’t missed a weekend post.

Ever.

Remarkable.

Thank you Lorie.

And please know that today’s post (100 day’s old now), is a God-send as they say.

Sometimes winning doesn’t mean proving anything to anyone. Sometimes it means letting go and moving on. – Lorie Sheffer

Just yesterday many of us had events and moments of confusion and in our quest for clarity during the past 24 hours, Lorie’s quote (above) makes it crystal clear what one plan could be moving forward.

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Spend our lives learning how to make this an unnatural response

Six great quotes about worry

 

(photo: iPhone screen shot – from one of yesterday’s many emails)

It’s natural to worry about how we’ll get through tragedy, pain, and uncertainty.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche

And because it’s so natural, we actually have to spend our lives learning how to make this an unnatural response, not an auto-response.

Not worrying is not an act of denial, nor a manifestation from not caring.

It is strength. Growth. Victory. Wisdom.

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