Recently heard something profound about one of the most admired brands in the world.
Simplify and focus.
And do not sacrifice quality.
Apple and Disney are great models for personal living.
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Should we run our lives like a business?
Tag: Personal
We never see it coming
i think the reason i put off living vibrantly was because i was so busy trying to survive the day-to-day.
Because my life wasn’t vibrant, i kept things set to survival (busy) mode. Obviously, now is not the best time to live vibrantly, right? i’ll get to that later when i we get my life in order.
But then i thought what if this week is the best week that i’ll ever have in my entire life and i squander it and never regain it?
Thinking the best, most vibrant is ahead of us – and waiting for it – is dangerous.
That was really clear yesterday.
Yesterday, and the entire past week, has been crazy good.
Never saw it coming.
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Something has changed over the past four days
Something wonderful has changed over the past four days.
Being at the Authority Rainmaker conference in Denver revealed a transformational mindset that has actually sprouted out of the ground and is visible to the naked eye for the first time.
i’m in charge of everything.
No longer being an official brand ambassador for one of the World’s Most Admired Companies, Disney, the growth spurt is in realizing you are free of any corporate sensitivities that are necessary for a top ten World’s Most admired company.
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Detour today from short and pithy
Can you pin point the thought or event that changed the direction of your life?
The catalytic thought that changed the trajectory of my life…
The notion of, “What would we do if we only had six months to live” just didn’t feel right…
A more compelling idea emerged, “What if we had only ten years to do everything we ever wanted to do in life?”
Sorta chuckled right away that one year would go by and i’d suddenly be embarrassingly reminded of that “promise”, “Uh oh, now i only have nine years to do the ten year plan.”
The idea that it all had to be done within a decade was intoxicating because it seemed so doable. So much so that i began six months before the milestone 50th birthday – the starting line of “the next ten years”.
Rather than procrastinate, i got a tax ID and started an LLC on January 1, 2009.
The big picture?
Five more years to finish a 30-year Disney career and retire at 55.
And five more years to put a dent in the Universe – to raise money to fund a cure for Crohn’s disease.
Now here we are.
To be continued…
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Should we try it if the benefits could be staggering?
(photo: Six months is a long time. Imagine an entire year.)
You know the coolest thing about an intensely positive attitude?
You are ok doing the craziest experiments that:
- No one else is even thinking of doing.
- No one else would even dream of succeeding at it.
Twelve more days to complete one year of not using I, Me, my, or mine.
Not in:
- Five blogs a day. And yes, that’s 1,865 posts.
- Not in emails for Disney.
- Not in emails for MLC.
- Not in personal emails.
- Not in a single social media update, reply, comment. Not one. For a year.
To be honest, it’s insane.
But some unexpected Magic happened.
Have you ever tried it? For a day? A week? Longer?
See how crazy it is.
The benefits are staggering.
First up was learning an invisible (unknown) definition of humility.
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