Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Our list of excuses is long. And creative. And of course includes the five universal hall-of-fame excuses.
The opportunity hidden in constraint is embracing and overcoming the lack of:
Is it a midlife crisis or a midlife celebration?
Up to each of us to individually decide.
Our decision to change or not change changes everything.
Everything.
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Reflecting on the uneventful phenomenon when one person reaches an incredible (and popular fantasy) milestone that nearly everyone dreams of doing.
What holds us back from celebrating and participating with the celebrant?
The silence emanating from us is deafening to the triumphant risk taker.
So if we don’t celebrate for someone else, odds are that no one else should ever feel the need or desire to reciprocate.
This is, in reality, simply another obstacle in our quest to do something great.
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What does the new year have in store for us? Are we already resigned to defeat, or chomping at the bit for the opportunity to begin another year?
The twin demons of fear and compliance. They can kill our dreams slowly, one busy day after another.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
– Bertrand Russell
Living with regret is worse than living with failure.
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What if we did this to the constant barrage of obstacles in our way? What if we reframed obstacles into stepping stones?
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Do you look forward to each new day?
I mean, with a joyful anticipation? Not an awful dread.
This can be challenging to say the least. You have to suspect that some readers may not believe I have much experience with Hell, with challenges, problems, obstacles, fear, failure, struggle, grief, agony, hopelessness, strife, worry, doubt.
Do all of you have a ton of experience with these things? Okay then, I rest my case. We all do. No one is immune.
Then why am I so optimistic and “joyful”?
Great question. Some people think I’m crazy. A weirdo. Or, worse, a fake.
It’s taken like 50 years, but, I’m totally cool with it all. Finally.
One of the secrets to being joyful, is so simple, you’re not going to believe it. And it brings great joy to tell you that tomorrow, I’ll reveal January’s “value”.