Is it possible to finally, for good, let go of habitual, societal posturing?
Started a new career and became a father around age 40.
Also received a serious health wakeup call at 40. Had been sedentary for years.
Began jogging one mailbox a day, for the first week.
Second week, two mailboxes a day.
Third week, three.
Fourth week, four mailboxes a day.
One month to jog the equivalent of one lap around a high school track.
Gradually added more distance.
All of this began when i started at Disney Institute in 1999.
Ten years later, i’m one week away from my Summer 2009 vacation. But it’s only me traveling. To Finland. For the 2009 Masters Track and Field World Championships.
After a decade pursuing physical vibrancy, i finally told my boss and one colleague what was going down. Had been working on the same team of people for a decade.
No one knew.
Never postured my physical achievements.
When i returned, never told others where i had been. Just kept running and going to the gym.
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Old Disney Institute business card, circa 1999. Never dreamed, let alone thought about, being a public speaker. Ever. Hard stop. Since 1999 i’ve spoken to 1.25 million people. How is that possible?
How you see work (career) problems, work (career) challenges, work (career) opportunities, is how you see everything.
Does this matter?
Is it important?
Yes and yes.
How you see everything (with your career) is how you do everything.
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A rare backstage look at how i begin to prepare for a speech…in this case, more than four months in advance.
Creativity.
Innovation.
They seem the same.
Yet they’re dramatically different.
Creativity is simply the generation of useful ideas in any domain.
Innovation is implementation.
The critical difference between creativity and innovation is that innovation demands changing or creating something that wasn’t possible before you did the work associated with a creative idea.
Ideas without implementation are simply ideas
Ideas without effort, worthless.
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