Category: Being Brave

If you could only pick from two available vendors

2015 American Idol final four
Last night watching American Idol top four elimination.

 

If you could only pick from two available vendors, which would you pick?

  1. The one promising to help you get your job done?
  2. The one promising to help you change your world?

No brainer?

Or does the fear of being remarkable default you to conformity?

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Leadership, failure and risk taking

Lee Cockerell Best selling books
Lee Cockerell’s best selling books made out of birthday cake by Disney Chefs.

 

Personal Leadership 101:

  • We will never get better at anything we don’t start.
  • The quickest way to fail at anything is to do nothing.
  • When we take action odds favor failure. However, by taking action and failing more often, we increase our odds of succeeding.
  • The best way to be inspired is to simply do the things we say we’re going to do.
  • Dreams do not awaken without action.

We know these things.

Or do we?

If we were apprehended, would there be enough evidence for a conviction?

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It scared you because you felt safe

Disney Conference Speakers
Have passed through here a million times.

 

Dear self, this is genius. The way you step up. Your intentions. The way you structure your classes. Your analogies. Your metaphors. Your questions. Your vision.

And what did you get paid?

Compared to a compelling speaker with a great platform, peanuts. Literally nothing compared to what you get paid now.

(Don’t get yourself wrong, you wouldn’t trade the past for anything.)

Genius has boldness. (Yes, this is the reverse of Boldness has genius.)

Congratulations on breaking the mold.

And congratulations for doing what you said you were gonna do.

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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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