Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.
It’s epidemic. Many people are working harder than ever before.
Right?
You’re working incredibly hard. In fact, personally, I’ve never worked harder than I have this past year. Can you relate?
But your tribe notices. And I’m assuming you have a tribe. Most people don’t even know what this means. But you do.
Thanks for noticing. Carpe diem!
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People who are really good (but not perfect) at what they do got that way because of one thing.
They never gave up.
I’m reminded of this every time I feel like I’m hanging on by a thread, a small blessing comes my way, allowing the journey to continue.
The road to excellence has no finish line. Is hanging on, or giving up, your first thought when faced with adversity?
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How long have you been in the workforce, paying taxes? How long have you been loyal to your current employer? We all understand that employee engagement and retention are critical, long-term business strategies.
Yet, being a great leader has never been more challenging, with the tremendous pressures of today’s unprecedented economic downturn.
It would almost seem that as leaders, we could make excuses to ourselves to justify our focus not on our people, but on the bottom line and our very own survival and reputation.
If you’re a parent (aunt, uncle) would you make excuses and rationalize that your children can fall from being at the top of your priority list?
For my wife, it’s been half her life with the same employer. Yesterday, it was exactly 26 years.
As a leader, you show what you value, every single day. Which should remind us that what we do thunders so loudly, others can’t hear what we say.
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Good Monday morning. Two days until Fall. Time flies, doesn’t it? In the end, if we’re lucky, we get to take a look back at our lives and ask, “Was I going through the motions or did I passionately do work that matters?” My college friend, Skip Gaskill, has this to say:
Hey Jeff, its been a while.
I spent last week with some very special people helping them formulate “their” plans as they transition from Active Duty back to the civilian world.
I volunteer with a veteren’s transition group that helps our wounded warriors develop life goals and action plans to achieve them.
These young men and women were battered and broken both physically and mentally (paralysis, amputees, traumatic brain injuries, post traumatic stress, loss of sight, hearing, or both, etc.) and still have the desire, courage, fortitude, and determination to overcome these setbacks and the demons that have developed in dealing with them.
My point here is that there are many people in this world who need help setting goals and developing action plans. Many of us have done this for ourselves to varying degrees of success.
I’m asking all of us to consider mentoring someone else (vets, youth, down & out, etc.) do the same…
I can’t sufficiently articulate the emotions you go through when you see someone you guided achieve success especially when they thought they had 0% chance of doing so.
We will all be better off in the long run.
Semper Fi, Skip
Ok, back to my words…
I don’t know about you, but my bar for today’s work has just been raised. Thank you Skip for sharing a private piece of yourself that we didn’t know before.
Paying it back, or paying it forward, we will likely never do enough giving to repay all the recieving we did and will continue to do. Keep on paying anyway. It’s good for your soul.
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We’ve all heard, ‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained”. Sage advice with a catch. It’s only valuable if action is taken. What’s your batting average on sage advice?
So I took action recently when Jorge Olson offered an opportunity to become part of his LinkedIn For Marketing group.
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