Four foul words no one wants to admit

Disney Executive Coaches
Disneyland World of Disney Store – Thanks for noticin’

 

As you skim through Facebook, do you ever ask yourself:

• “Do i lie to myself?”

• “Am i satisfied?”

• “What makes me come alive?”

• “What’s the point of Facebook anyway?”

Made a private and ridiculously impossible goal in 2014.

For one year, do not use four words:

•  i  •  me  •  my  •  mine  •

Not in corporate communications with clients and colleagues and bosses, not on social media comments, replies. Not in emails or texts. Not on 1,865 annual blog posts…

Not once.

This has bled over to today, March 22, 2015.

The craziest thing?

No one even noticed.

So why do it?

That’s the big question in our lives isn’t it?

Why do transformational things if they are so small no one will detect any change?

Am ready to begin using them again, on a microscopic scale, beginning today. It was an extraordinary learning experience, because it was so visibly invisible

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Learning to let go of holding on to what scares us

Disneyland Walt Disney Apartment lamp
This lamp has remained on since December 15, 1966.

 

Learning to let go of holding on to what scares us.

Composed and sent 15 emails yesterday to everyone who initiated contact (requesting a keynote speaker) in the first 30 days of retirement.

Following up isn’t scary. Quite good at it. What seems scary is being labeled as a stereotypical salesperson only interested in making a sale.

Overcoming this will set him free.

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Does leadership get better?

 

(note: this post was written 100 days ago on March 20, and edited this morning)

A new era of leadership begins for many people.

Working at Walt Disney World for 30 years, my number of gay and lesbian friends is countless. Today’s youth are so much luckier to be growing up in today’s more open and accepting world than my colleagues in the video.

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(second note: who could have predicted the June 26the Supreme Court ruling 100 days ago?)

Batter up

Disney Management Consultant
Yesterday.

 

Everything begins with personal leadership. Life is so incredibly challenging. And we are both broken, and beautiful. We hope, we doubt. We triumph, we fail.

The circle of life.

One day, one moment at a time.

Keep swinging for the fence.

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