If you knew you couldn’t fail

Sanibel sunrise — Two days in a row using a photo from a few minutes ago, rather than the usual “day before” photos.

Wouldn’t it be great to live in 2019 with a brand new approach to our life?

One that sounds like this…

If you knew you could not fail.

Here’s to the difficult, time-consuming, and inconvenient work it takes.

Be the person you dream of.

Seriously, why not?

Right?

The creative, generous, kind, and joyful person who only wants to do work that matters.

The type of person who says it doesn’t matter if the work is challenging and takes years, or even a lifetime.

And the kind of work that you can creatively have a blast at doing.

Be the person you dream of.

And remember, you don’t want to be thinking this…

A year from now i’ll wish i had started today.

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The genius of being yourself

Glacier summit — Instagram. Glacier National Park. Mt Reynolds, the tall center peak.

The genius of being yourself.

You were born to be a genius.

All of us are.

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Discipline is essential, but it’s not the key

Good news bad news — The good news is “you’re good”. The bad new is, “you’re good.”

Discipline is essential, but it’s not the key.

Here it is unpacked…

Yesterday morning the coach said, “You know what i’m insanely great at?”

The CEO asked, “What?”

“Discipline”, the coach exclaimed.

The CEO laughed and said, “Absolutely.”

Much later that day, as i crawled into bed i thought, “It isn’t discipline that’s the key, it’s vision.”

If you have a vision that’s clear, concise, and compelling and lights your fire, you’ll fnd a way.

When your vision is as powerful as your next breath, you’ll develop the discipline you need.

This then becomes a skill you can scale as you grow in your roles and responsibilities.

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But there is one more thing

Apple live event 2018 — Tim had big shoes to fill. Still does.

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But there is one more thing.

Show, don’t tell.

Use story to “show” what you are telling.

Facts and theories stick better when revealed through story.

i can tell you our son is a risk taker, or i can share with you, one more thing…

Writing this morning from Towson, Maryland in a Sheraton Hotel room adjacent to Goucher College. The reality of “nothing is guaranteed” was hyper-real yesterday as we attended the admissions info session and walked through campus on the student-led tour, for the fourth time in two years.

High School seniors across the United States are well-advised to apply to four to six colleges. At the very least, if you are deadset on one college, have a suitable second-choice as a backup.

Makes perfect sense.

Except…

Chapin has no backup.

He is applying for only one school, Goucher.

As parents, we are not insisting, as we probably should, that he have a backup plan, “just in case”.

A common inspirational saying for being fully committed is “burn the ships“, attributed to the 16th-century Spanish explorer, Hernan Cortes.

He may not get accepted into Goucher.

He may be faced with an opportunity in his future that will require him to be all in.

No matter what, the lesson he learns from his current approach will serve him well.

But only because he is all in now.

No theory.

No what-if.

Only all in.

Here’s to the crazy ones.

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Disney Keynote Speakers have transformational knowledge to share

Westin Riverfront, Avon CO. Yesterday after lunch.

snow on pine needles — October 15, yesterday, it was 14 degrees at sunrise.

The two most magnificent days in our life is the day we are born and the day we figure out why.

Disney Keynote Speakers have transformational knowledge to share.

Knowledge is to skill as fat is to muscle. – Robert Kelley

Fat does not increase strength.

Muscle does.

Knowledge does not transform things or people.

Action does.

To stand out in a sea of ?motivational speakers”, i have spent my life transforming Disney knowledge into a rare Disney speaker’s skill set:

A 19-point cultural blueprint i’ve created and apply to the way i run my life and business.

And from this, i am asked to share brilliantly simplistic and profoundly powerful context-neutral business insights for world-class excellence and organizational vibrancy.

To be the first Disney Keynote Speaker choice when business leaders want a transformational catalyst to spark the change their business wants to share with the world.

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