Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Blogging is way over rated. So is running. And prayer too, while we’re at it. And anything else that the experts tout is good for us.
You know why?
Because most people’s efforts are half-hearted at best.
Walt Disney’s professional life was a life that was incredibly “all in”.
Please don’t misunderstand, most of us start out all fired up. It’s just this whole notion of dedicating our lives to it. That’s the trouble with becoming excellent, it takes so much freakin’ effort.
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Life is brutal at beating our dreams out of us.
There is an antidote to get around this dilemma.
Keep going when all seems lost or impossible.
The long way is the short cut.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
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Photo: Yesterday. Tallied up the number of consecutive days i’ve written five daily, differently-themed blog posts. It was only supposed to last 100 days.
(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 itwrite 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 what happens to our attitude when we patiently wait for something we hope for?
Breaks happen.
Not that we need breaks because the journey in and of itself is all we really need.
But to have icing on the cake after years and years of patient persistence?
Like a mini mid life celebration.
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(photo: Capturing testimonials from WordPress Word Camp Orlando 2014 at the Rosen College of Hospitality. Yesterday, December 6.)
If it doesn’t work fast, we’re on to the next thing.
Like a broken record.
Will the invisible (to ourselves, but clear to everyone else) habit of not seeing things through ever change?
Replace the record or stop playing the record. Period.
Why wouldn’t we?
But we love that album.
On second thought, get the digital version. iTunes or equivalent.
Or, and this is a massive or, we could just find a million reasons to stay the course with common sense.
The basics.
Never get bored with the basics.
Inventory the things that influence your attitude.
This is a wake up call if we are honest.
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