Finding our passion and pursuing our dreams with sheer determination is something we all dream about.
When is the best time to ease off the dreaming and ramp up the doing? It really depends. There’s so much to consider. So much to take into account.
Have you given up?
Eventually, most people give up. I almost did too. Then a small child was born. He changed my life and my purpose. He was and is the catalyst that inspires me to work tirelessly.
Over time, my five daily blogs have slowly, but surely been getting better. It’s funny sometimes, to think that many readers have no idea how hard I work in my professional position with a Fortune 100 company.
All this blogging is extra. Ya with me? Extra. What are you doing that’s extra? That’s hard? That’s difficult? That you love so much you can’t stop?
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Do you let what you can’t do stop you from what you can?
Speaking of leadership with it’s titles, status, perks, benefits, bonuses, responsibility, accountability, opportunities…
This “bonus” (today’s second post) jungle jeff blog post shares my response to a faithful jungle jeff reader.
We are all leaders. Every last one of us. Even if it doesn’t seem so.
We all travel through life with the exact same “currency” – time.
Mistakes are gifts.
Past mistakes become worse when we don’t open them up as the gifts they are, and reflect on the reason they happened, and the opportunity they represent.
To me, failure is never opening the gift.
The gift-giver is actually ourselves. If we cannot thank ourselves for our mistakes – our opportunities – we lose.
Stay strong, dig deep, find quiet space, and open your gift.
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Don’t ya just love technology? The more we do something, the less fearful we are of it. That’s one of the key drivers that makesmany people want to try something new – to lessen fear.
And that’s one of our key accountabilities as a leader, isn’t it? To lessen fear. Carpe diem.
PS. Skyped a friend in South Africa yesterday. Wasn’t exactly fearful of it, but had never done an International video chat before. Now I wonder why I waited so long. It was ridiculously easy.
Meeting with a writer this morning after Church. We’re collaborating. I’ve written somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,300 jeff noel blog posts, from five individual jeff noel blogs. Began writing consistently six months ago.
He agreed to read every single Mid Life Celebration blog post prior to today’s meeting. While it wasn’t required, I decided to do the same. Wow. It’s pretty inspiring content, because it is written by a common man.
Here’s an example from August 1st, entitled “Indescribable“.
My friend is a small business owner. He’s been in business for over 30 years. Yesterday he told me, “This is the worst I’ve seen it”.
No one is coming into his store. He has gotten creative and started, for the first time ever, going out looking for business. If business won’t come to him, he’s going to go to it.
I congratulated him on being successful for so long, and mentioned I started an LLC in January, and the odds are (overwhelmingly) stacked against me. In fact the odds are stacked against anyone starting a (small) business.
T-shirts. We all have a few. Some of them are part of who we are. A form of self expression. They are usually priced right, which is why many people have too many. Plus, it’s difficult to part with them.
The other day, while driving in Central Florida, a man was wearing a t-shirt that caught my attention. It read, “Shut Up And Push“.
Instantaneously, this led me to wonder about the slogan and how it applies to business. This is the way my crazy mind works.
In today’s economic crunch, in addition to doing all the daily things we always do, there are two other line items that demand our attention. Number one – worry about the future. Number two -prepare for the future.
If you think about it you will realize, the future is extra work, but only if you focus on it. Not to mention, the future is hard work, but only if you focus on it.
What I decided I need to do is, “Shut up and push“!
John F. Kennedy said, “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”.
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If you have no interest in Public Speaking, that’s ok. May I offer this different perspective for still paying attention to this jungle jeff blog post?
As a Professional Speaker, sometimes a “sports story” is appropriate. There are people however, that will immediately turn off and tune out. Why? Well for starters, they’ll say things like:
“I don’t like sports”.
“I never played sports”.
“I don’t watch sports”.
“I hate sports”.
So let me just say this, when I tell a “sports story”, it’s not about sports, it’s about excellence. When I blog about public speaking, it’s not about public speaking as much as it is about passion, and the pursuit of excellence – in any endeavor.
That’s why you should pay attention. “You can observe a lot by watching”. – Yogi Berra
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If you don’t have a blog, that’s OK, the article probably won’t mean much to you or your business.
Blogging is much easier and much more impactful than you think.
There are early adopters, laggards, and the people in between (the mass consumption). To be world class in business, you have to out work your competition. Anyone think that’s possible without the Internet? Without Social Media?
If so, there’s a place reserved for you in the museum, not far from the T-Rex exhibit.
