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.
Many businesses will honor the United States tradition of closing their doors to doing business, and take a day off from work, to remember the price of freedom.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Fly the American Flag proudly. Honor our United States Military, even if you are against war.
In fact, no one likes war. And yet our Service Men and Service Women put their very lives on the line so that we can sleep under a blanket of freedom each night that few have ever known.
As you rush through your insane busy days, do you take make time to pause and ground your thoughts and actions with your core being?
We see it in others every single day.
But we can’t see it in ourselves.
I cannot recall the last time, if ever, I’ve provided a link to this blog. It represents the very core of what I believe. You may not believe what I believe and that’s not the point. The point is, whatever you believe, do you believe it all the way and do you use it all day long to drive your work towards excellence?
How many of you had any earthly idea that corporate copy machines had hard drives that store a copy of everything copied on that machine?
How many of you care?
Same here. How many of you know I take every picture that’s used on these five blogs? While it isn’t important to a great number of people, if you follow these blogs regularly, you’ll begin to see, that in either case – the copy machine revelation, or the photo revelation – in both cases, it’s pretty amazing and astonishing.
Some of the hardest working people you know, you have no idea how hard they work. And whomever works the hardest, is almost always the one that succeeds.
Where do put yourself on the “hardest working” scale?
Here’s one more thing to consider in our efforts to fight identity theft. A Canadian friend sent this to me and you ought to consider viewing this video because it will help you understand that company copy machines contain hard drives.
It costs about $500 to upgrade a copier with software that either encrypts the data or erases it. Most organizations won’t spend this kind of dough. Imagine medical, insurance, financial organizations. Imagine social security numbers, addresses, critical information about your accounts.
The video shows the undercover results, and closes with the punch line – a shipment of used copiers is headed to two overseas countries.
There’s never been a better time to take risks.
In today’s economy, your very survival may push you to take risks you never dreamed of. Necessity is the mother of invention, right?
But.
There’s never been a worse time to take risks.
You mess up and guess what? You fall on someone’s radar. And the next time there’s a right-sizing initiative, guess who’s name is closer to the top?
How do you manage this paradox?