rewards – Page 2 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

It’s your ship to sink or sail

(photo: This venue seats 5,000.)

It has been incredibly interesting to be in charge of everything.

As CEO of your own small business, you can do anything you want.

This is a blessing and a curse.

You might sink your ship. You might discover new shores.

Bottomline, it humbles you in learning why so many people do, or don’t do, the things they do.

Survival.

And if you manage to survive, greed comes a calling asking you to cut corners, take short cuts, exaggerate.

But then you remember the brand you are building – and none of those are even remotely acceptable.

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Trying to remain exceptionally humble, and incredibly joyful

(photo: Pure unadulterated joy! A 10-year old in 1969. He’s using the original joy stick.)

Pennsylvania (in the morning) and Florida (in the evening), enjoyed your company yesterday. Please don’t be offended with this morning’s departure to Oregon.

The list of people (Family) who know the big announcement news is growing.

Harvest time is near.

Pretty cool.

Trying remain exceptionally humble, and incredibly joyful.

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The midlife peace that’s possible is actually quite staggering

closeup photo of reading glasses — Things have become so much clearer in the past 15 years

The midlife peace that’s possible is actually quite staggering. Literally embarrassed to talk about it. But writing helps.

If you regularly write, you know this.

If you’ve overcome addiction, you know this.

If you honor your body and take care of it well, you know this.

If you’ve become more concerned with your work as art versus status, you know this.

If you’ve come to gripes with your mortality in an inspiring way, enabling you to live each day with conscious purpose, you know this.

If you know that it truly is in the giving that we receive, you know this.

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It’s a vicious circle isn’t it?

photo of four car pileup — distractions lead to a multitude of unplanned results, some bad (like here), some good (like below)

It’s a vicious circle isn’t it? You love what you do because you’re good at it – which makes you love what you do – which makes you good at it – which makes you….

The gifts we receive from life seem to be disguised and unheralded. Do something everyday for years and you will ~~probably~~ not be the best in the world, but you will most likely have developed a world-class habit of focus and discipline.

These unsolicited gifts seem disproportionately better than our original goal.

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The amazing paradox of effort in tackling our biggest demon

photo of MacBook and WordPress admin panel — writing provides a comprehensive enlightenment that no other activity can touch

First of all, Happy Saturday. New Year’s Eve is two days away, the world’s biggest party night. It transcends nationality, religious, age, and ethnic differences.

This leads us to thinking seriously, or ignoring completely, New Year’s resolutions. The amazing paradox of effort in tackling our biggest demons is that effort and reward are almost always directly proportional.

Work life balance involves our holistic commitment to five simple themes and it’s surprising how few of us have the guts and determination to focus on this correlation by clicking through to the Next Blog (our “physical health” blog)