Morons beware. I don’t use moron in my vocabulary, because it sounds derogatory. However, using it in a blog title is catchy and gutsy. In business, who doesn’t like that combination?
“The death of education and the dawn of learning”. (can you identify the “morons”?):
Bob Dylan said it best, “He who’s not busy being born, is busy dying”.
Betting nine out of ten will not watch this video. Nine out of ten don’t exercise either. Nine out of ten spend more than they earn.
Not judging. Just stating simple probability. Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.
If not today, when. The clock is ticking. Carpe diem, jeff noel
Spoke a week ago about overcoming addiction. and that I’d elaborate on that. Not quite ready too.
Meanwhile, thought I’d layer on another challenging situation I’ve worked through. Overcoming disability.
Not ready to elaborate on that either.
It almost makes me angry, the vibe I get from people who think I have no idea what darkness and dispair look like. What impossible odds look like. What fear and self-doubt look like.
I can almost hear people say, “You talk a good talk Jeff, but you have no idea what I’m going through”.
We have a saying in the small Pennsylvania town I grow up in, “Bullcrap”!
Writing this makes me stronger. Hope reading it makes you stronger. Carpe diem, jungle jeff
You know how you get to be an expert? I certainly didn’t. Because I , and so few others, stick with anything long enough and passionately enough to master it, let alone become the teacher.
That’s when you start becoming the expert. When people come to you to learn.
What does it take to be a social media expert? Here are a few of my guesses:
Have at least 1,000 blogs posts to be taken seriously
Be on Google results front page for all your websites
Host multiple blogs
Post daily (say five per day)
Generate millions of hits annually
Use the big social media tools
Be on the curve for the newly emerging tools
Make money and change lives
Have fun
Have guts
Have decently thick skin
Be prepared to work hard and stretch yourself
I don’t make anything up. That’s part of my personal brand commitment.
Audacious ain’t it? Maybe even antagonistic? Perfect.
Here’s an excerpt from the first article (in case you don’t have time to read it):
“The Disney Keys to Excellence Program is:
• Relevant: Impacts critical drivers of success in a slow economy
• Affordable: Priced to serve more people under limited budgets
• Actionable: Easy to implement upon return to the office
• Inspirational: Generates team excitement and momentum
• Short: Takes only one day away from the office
• Local: no travel expenses”
There, that about sums it up. Turbulent times require us to be even more decisive, I think, than in times of prosperity.
Bottom line, it comes down to a leadership mindset to excellence. Always has, always will. Carpe diem, jungle jeff
“I knew if this business was ever to get anywhere, if this business was ever to grow, it could never do it by having to answer to someone unsympathetic to it’s possibilities, by having to answer to someone with only one thought or interest, namely profits. For my idea of how to make profits has differed greatly from those who generally control businesses such as ours. I have a blind faith in the policy that quality, tempered with good judgement and showmanship, will win out against all odds”.
If Walt Disney could have envisioned how successful his business philosophy would ultimately become and how far it would take The Walt Disney Company, maybe he would have found a way to quit smoking.
