Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Author: jeff noel
Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.
So yeah, I’m pretty high strung about excellence. For many, the idea of never being satisfied is unimaginable. Traditionally we learn to be satisfied, learn to compromise, and learn to keep the bar low – because it is simply easier.
So for the past 30 years have worked in a culture that knows only one standard, continuously improve. Never rest on your laurels or past accomplishments. The video is a quick way to have it make more sense.
If your goal is not impossible, you are not reaching high enough.
Yesterday a 9th grader visited the 7th and 8th graders and was sharing with them how his father taught him extensively about money. From the time he was a little boy he was shown the bills, payments, investments – he saw them all and even had to sign off that he read them.
Fast forward this same boy to 7th and 8th grade and the Internet.
The fatherly advice for free, unlimited, unrestricted Internet access? “Don’t go on You Tube, there’s bad stuff there”.
Not judging (even if it sounds like it). Rather, observing the difference in detail.
We teach what we know. Don’t we?
An expert money manager? For sure.
An Internet expert in the new, global social economy? You decide.