Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
There are as many reasons to focus on excellence, as there are to not focus.
So who’s right?
Is it those crazy, fanatical people who only settle for excellence?
Or those that say life is too short to worry about all that?
What do you think?
Which one are you?
Why?
Most of you know I love social media and actively (meaning daily) use the big guns – LinkedIn, Twitter, You Tube, Blogs, Facebook, etc.
LinkedIn has many uses besides posting a plain vanilla resume. It can be used as a micro-blog platform too.
Well, yesterday I received a LinkedIn reply from someone who’s parents instilled in them, as young children, to read a book a week.
Reading a book a month separates casual readers from serious readers.
Reading a book a week separates the serious readers from the world-class readers.
World-class, of course, is in a class by itself.
I know this from personal experience, but not in the category labeled reading.
Being a (great) leader makes you a target. A target for small minds to nit-pick your faults and missteps.
Better get used to, eh?
Humans are perfectly imperfect. You know what I’m talking about, right? Good.
Case in point:
The previous two days, on a New Mexico business trip, I had a misstep each morning. I’m committed to starting every single day on my knees. No exceptions.
The first day, it was only 7:30AM when I realized I had forgotten, and found a quiet place.
Yesterday, it was 7:30PM, as I pulled into our driveway.
So I went over to our canine (Pet) son’s grave and finished the day on my knees.
There are some things we should be flexible on and some we shouldn’t.
As a leader, are you clear about which is which, and why?
I mean, what if you read one book per month for a year? Twelve books. Pretty impressive.
What if you did this for two years in a row? Twenty-four books. Wow!
Now imagine doing this for a decade. Transformational: 120 books.
And there are people who’ve done this.
I have.
Then it dawned on me, “So what?”
Misery loves company.
Them and they are four letter words.
Can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Leaders, many of them anyway, fail because they have such a hard time being criticized, even if it’s constructive.
I posted an April Fools bit for jeffnoel.com, but took it down minutes later, after a close friend said it wasn’t funny.
I thought it was, and still do. But took it down anyway.
Okay, so I’m worried about what others may think with a single April Fool’s blog post? Now imagine what President Obama must have to deal with.
Just the other morning, this was in our local Orlando Sentinel. It’s about the insane press one Central Florida Urologist is getting, because he said Obama is bad.
Great leaders must be so passionate about their purpose, that they are willing to take the negative criticism. Otherwise, they will never make it.
Great leaders know that the sky is the limit and small minds will always say otherwise.