Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings”. — Ed Gardner
Workaholics rarely have courage for self-confrontation. We’re too busy trying to control things and control life. If we pause long enough to notice the bleeding, we might have to change who we are.
Panic attack, right? When will we take time to:
Probably never. Am I wrong?
Or maybe when the phone rings, “Honey, it’s for you, it’s your wake up call”.
“Whose life is it anyway”. — Brian Clark
You know what? I’m not sure where to begin on this one. Seriously. The quote is so intriguing, yet so open for interpretation.
If you’ve been in the workplace all your life and now into mid life, you are well aware of how “work” can own you.
Others may understand this, “You either run your business or it runs you”.
Or, no one ever said on their deathbed, “I wish I had spent more time at the office”.
No matter how you think about today’s quote, it certainly does make you think, doesn’t it?
But does it call you to any action?
“Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt”. — Harvey Mackay
By now, we know that there are many people who make tons of promises. Same with businesses, with marketing, with the Internet, and so on. False promises.
The real question is, to me, “What promises am I making to myself that are false promises? Promises to be wary of”?
This is one of the main reasons we find ourselves in a mid-life crisis.
We start with good, well-intended promises, but in reality, they were really only false promises:
No one should feel alone reading this. We all suffer from this. We’re human. That’s what we do, we fail. Over and over again.
So now, consciously reminded of this, “What are you gonna do about it? And I mean specifically, what are you gonna do today”?
“If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances”. — Albert Einstein
Meanwhile in my zip code, there’s a sea of upscale vehicles, yet the 1990 Toyota suites me perfectly.
There’s even a dinner-plate sized dent on the driver’s front fender. Was going to have it repaired until I realized how much that road-rage induced dent signified how lucky I am to still be alive.
In America, we are constantly tempted to keep up with the Joneses. Why? Because we are afraid of who we really are.
Would you rather be loved for who you’re not or hated for who you are?
Next Blog
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man”. — Elbert Hubbard
What does it take to be extraordinary?
Is it reasonable to expect to become extraordinary?
Is it even worth it to try to become extraordinary?
What would extraordinary people say to these questions?
What would Earth be like without extraordinary people?
Next Blog