Tag: Paradox

If you want good thoughts

If you want good thoughts, think about what your worst thoughts yield you.

Then think about what the best thoughts yield you.

So obvious, the choice.

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Disney .thinks .differently

book cover for The Comfort Crisis
A 10-year executive coaching client (CEO of 3k employee enterprise recently purchased by a 300k person enterprise) sent this yesterday. Can you guess who he said it reminded him of?

Disney Excellence Paradox:

Teaching Disney Institute’s world-class curriculum to a million people over 15 years, my participants always appreciated when i said this:

“We don’t do these things because we’re Disney, we’re Disney because we do these things.”

The above quote is my response to anyone insisting that Disney has special abilities and secrets that outsiders can’t touch.

It is my way of trying to snap a person back to reality.

Finally, this insight frames one of my daily mantras: Stop making excuses that excellence is only reserved for privileged people and privileged companies. Be amazed and be amazing.

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Art’s paradox

This song (see artist and title at top of photo), while sitting on our patio, inspired this post and the video below…
49-second video: Thank you Joni, for the impromptu inspiration.

The paradox of Art is that art is a circus.

It’s a freak show.

You go to the freak show to see the thing no one’s seen before.

Freakish attracts human attention.

Humans are curious.

Freakish is exciting.

Art?

Totally.

Who knew?

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Simple temperance

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One of the first things i read this morning. This has been on my mind for decades.

How true is this for most of us?

We crowd our space with things and spend the rest of our lives waiting upon those things as if we are their servant.

Our things (our stuff) ask little, except:

  1. Do not get rid of me.
  2. Never stop worrying about what will happen if you discard me.
  3. Keep expanding the kingdom of things (stuff).

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What mental pain

pool patio
There’s pain in risky choices. Both being from Pennsylvania, could we actually pull off making a life in Florida? So far away from family. No “traditional” change of seasons. The pain from uncertainty became worth it for us in this case.

What mental pain do you want in your life?

i’ll gladly take the pain of having a mind that rarely rests because it is continuously thinking about better ways to do everything.

What pain do you want to avoid?

i want to avoid the pain that stems from a lack of consistent thoughts about the best ways to do things. And the regret that comes from doing things in a subpar way.

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