Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Do we become immune to the possibilities of a simple question like this:
What’s it gonna be today?
Life is about the choices we make. It is not about choices someone else makes or doesn’t make.
This is easy to forget. It’s also easy to remember. Our choice, no?
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(photo: Who are those people?)
While unwrapping gifts yesterday our son (14) said, “I’m going to say this at your funeral, ‘My Dad avoided answering a lot of questions’.”
Is this intentional or by default?
Great professional speakers know if they tell an audience the answer, the audience will never remember. And if the facilitator helps the audience discover the answer themselves, they will never forget.
By design or by default?
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(photo: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus… )
Strong enough and brave enough to be different?
Authentic?
When?
Never?
Come on, seriously?
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(photo: Celebrate the fact that you are ready to change, no matter the catalyst.)
The comfort zone is a nice comfy place.
We like our rut. It’s so predictable And all our friends are miserable too. Birds of a feather flock together.
When we have had enough (which may never happen), we need someone to encourage us.
Watch and listen to what happens when you ask big-boy questions to leaders who should have ready answers, but don’t.
Now do it with yourself – ask yourself the big-girl questions you should have a ready answer to, but don’t.
We are all leaders.
You are the CEO of You, Inc.
Everything is your fault.
PS. This is exactly the kind of dialogue used in a self-imposed shut-up-or-put challenge that changed everything and led to, among several game-changing risks:
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Baby Boomers, how much time and from how many angles?
When is the right age?
What are the ramifications?
Pension, healthcare, 401k, social security.
bills • obligations • identity • freedom • loss
We could have the same conversation about…
fear • risks • opportunity • regrets • permission
Most likely though, these things really scare us. And make us uncomfortable in spite of the good bits.
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