Transformation – Page 4 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Better late than never is not always about change

Moose lodge sign — Last week in Valparaiso, IN. No one cares about this photo and that’s the coolest part of posting it.

Better late than never. A phrase we have heard since we were children. Why? Because it’s true.

It’s better to make difficult, positive changes to correct poor habits than it is to not change. Sounds backwards but it’s true…

Better late than never is not always about change.

Sometimes it’s about becoming aware of something that wasn’t fully understood – something that once understood, gives us courage and strength in a way we never saw coming.

Writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different websites) has happened every single day since April 1, 2009.

i don’t write for:

SEO
Followers
Fame
Sales

i write because it transforms me.

The transformation is facilitated by the illumination from a daily habit that is public and transparent – also known as accountability.

Without accountability we are sunk. And by accountability, i’m not talking about some bull crap theory-looks-good-on-paper accountability.

Accountability that is so easy to recognize, it’s impossible to hide.

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Are we capable of transformational midlife change?

Honeymoon bicycle trip — Honeymoon photo, 1984; only 25 years old with no plans of ever becoming “old”.

We poison our soul so slowly we never notice. Our deeply engrained midlife habits can change even though it feels impossible to change.

What began as a groove in our youth has become a rut so deep, we can’t climb out.

A wakeup call is the only thing powerful enough to change this.

From our wakeup call, we can benefit in large as well as small, seemingly insignificant ways.

Yesterday i arrived early for a meeting with a Certified Financial Planner. We were both driving to a central location. He was 15 minutes late. Our first reaction is to get impatient. Then we start feeling unimportant as a customer. This makes us angry. Right?

But here’s what really happened.

After the initial tinge of impatience i quickly moved to, “i hope he is alright. i hope he didn’t get in an accident.”

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How important is risk taking to you?

Pinocchio statue at Cinderella Castle — “I can not tell a lie”

On a 1-10 scale where 10 is high, 1 is low…

How important is risk taking to you?

(pausing while you do your math)

Got your answer?

Ok…

Because you deserve it, i’m taking a public risk (for your benefit)…

Even with the obvious human temptation to dismiss this…

It will take two minutes.

Don’t have two minutes?

Good luck with the rest of the day.

If you’ll consider reading all five – one each for mind, body, spirit, work, and home – you’ll risk .thinking .differently

You can thank me later.

That last sentence was a risk too.

Live like you mean it.

PS. What prompted this was the spirited nature of today’s posts.

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To be sure, our choice is habitual

Disney Speakers jeff noel — Change is in the air. Good change.

Criminal was my lifelong, general lack of intentionality in consciously and thoughtfully making wise, habitual choices.

Enter midlife…

Midlife presents us with two striking choices.

Life altering choices:

Fear and doubt
Courage and faith

Astonishing how fundamental these two choices are.

Criminal is our general lack of intentionality in consciously and thoughtfully making wise, habitual choices.

To be sure, our choice is habitual.

Turning my midlife crisis into a midlife celebration was the small change that changed everything.

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48 hours later

(photo: The sun going down as the two-hour conversation reaches a good place to stop, for now.)

The walk yesterday afternoon was the last thing anyone could have seen coming.

Maybe two miles and two hours later they had finished the most important part.

Getting to, “Where do we go from here?”.

What looked like a simple father and son walk was actually a monumental conversation.

And so it goes.

They decided to give the next conversation a four-day deadline to happen – by New Year’s Eve.

The conversation yesterday had no deadline. But it did rely on a 14-year old’s courage to start an adult conversation. He didn’t initiate it, circumstances did.

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