Working vacations are necessary sometimes

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
Awaiting first Family sunset, 2015.

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset (in progress).

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset heading for grand finale.

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset – take a bow.

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset – encore.

 

Working vacations are under rated and over rated.

Just like exerting the lifetime effort (personal leadership) to stay healthy and active. Or to opt for ‘relaxing, taking it easy, and enjoying life’ at the expense of exertion.

The key is to take enough vacations so that the odds equal out that some are working vacations and some are not.

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This is a tough pill to swallow

Patty Smyth CD 1992
Yesterday while writing, between Buffett and Springsteen…Patty Smyth.

 

How many of us when we were young would settle for what we have now?

Career success and career happiness are often mutually exclusive.

It’s just so easy to play it safe.

So we do.

And we settle.

For safety.

Safety doesn’t deliver success or happiness.

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Are we aware of our question’s focus?

Airport bookstore sign
Atlanta airport bookstore sign two days ago.

 

Are we aware of our question’s focus?

What do i need to know today is a good question.

But it doesn’t become a great question until we add a prioritized context.

Most of us skip this step because of the increased degree of difficulty in thinking through the bigger picture beyond today’s to-do list.

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Paint, draw, sculpt, photograph, and so on

Montessori Art Festival
We generally think of art as the creation of something visual.

 

Last night’s Montessori School (Toddlers to 8th grade) Art Festival was inspiring. And isn’t that the way we frame up (heuristically?) our definition of art?

Paint, draw, sculpt, photograph, and so on.

Think about what you do for a living 20 to 80+ hours a week.

Do you ever think of yourself as an artist?

And if no, why?

If yes, how hard do you push yourself?

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The good lie is a skeptic’s best friend

The Good Lie movie

 

The Good Lie movie

 

The Good Lie movie

 

The good lie is the skeptic’s best friend because a lie worth telling is the supreme demonstration of love. Watched The Good Lie yesterday on an iPhone during the flight from Disneyland to Walt Disney World. An inspiring story of tragedy and hope.

 

 

Love and leadership have no place in the West’s dog-eat-dog business world.

That’s what we’ve come to believe.

Focus on business results. Increase shareholder value.

What if we’re wrong?

What if love is the ticket to organizational growth?

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