Thriving despite the obvious pressures

Midlife career article
This article prompted today’s post.

 

Biggest takeaway from yesterday’s travel day comes in the form of a question.

How will i navigate the unknown territory of unpredictable health challenges that only come from reaching ages decades from now?

Bonus question:

Is it possible to eliminate, avoid, or minimize the unpredictable with an intentional and balanced wellness focus?

Isn’t this the leadership question of the day:

How to we thrive in an unpredictable future?

First step it would seem, is to get to a place you would definitely consider thriving.

Then do everything in your power to maintain and improve that.

The Disney culture, and maintaining it, is my number one priority. – Michael Eisner 1984 (his first, of 21, year as CEO)

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

The glasses are from the weekend’s Halloween costume

Steve Jobs book
The glasses are from the weekend’s Halloween costume.

 

The glasses are from the weekend’s Halloween costume.

  • Does a person have to be alive to be your mentor?
  • Is it a requirement to have met someone you consider your mentor?

If the answer feels like yes, imagine how Christians would be impacted.

 

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

11 mistakes personal (and corporate) trainers wish you’d stop making

Everyday Health photos
This photo title should say: You’re too Monotonous. Doing the same things and expecting your results to happen better and faster.

 

Everyday Health photos
You’re doing workplace initiatives you hate.

 

Everyday Health photos
You are starting with the wrong mindset.

 

Everyday Health photos
You’re always focused on the same things, in the same way.

 

Everyday Health photos
You refuse to do what it takes to have focus and discipline.

 

Everyday Health photos
You are neglecting a holistic approach to organizational vibrancy.

 

Everyday Health photos
You use a ready, fire, aim approach to making progress.

 

Everyday Health photos
You rush from one thing to another and don’t fully understand the inter-connectedness of the easy beginnings and easy endings.

 

Everyday Health photos
You only want to focus on what you’re good at, and not a 360 analysis.

 

Everyday Health photos
Rush, rush, rush. You do too many things that others can, and should, be doing.

 

Everyday Health photos
The long way is the short cut. Each important piece of cultural architecture has a positive ripple effect when you have it in place and a negative ripple effect when it isn’t.

 

The hardest thing in the world is to change who we are once we are well into our career. However, it SHOULD be the easiest thing because what we are really asked to do is to simply keep getting better.

Original article is here.

Summary of 11 points, jeff noel style.

  1. You’re too Monotonous. Doing the same things and expecting your results to happen better and faster.
  2. You’re doing workplace initiatives you hate.
  3. You are starting with the wrong mindset.
  4. You’re always focused on the same things, in the same way.
  5. You refuse to do what it takes to have focus and discipline.
  6. You are neglecting a holistic approach to organizational vibrancy.
  7. You use a ready, fire, aim approach to making progress.
  8. You rush from one thing to another and don’t fully understand the inter-connectedness of the easy beginnings and easy endings.
  9. You only want to focus on what you’re good at, and not a 360 analysis.
  10. Rush, rush, rush. You do too many things that others can, and should, be doing.
  11. The long way is the short cut. Each important piece of cultural architecture has a positive ripple effect when you have it in place and a negative ripple effect when it isn’t.

Personal trainers, executive coaches, High School Counselors, Physicians, and so on, they are at their finest when they are 100% honest, transparent, and forthcoming.

The truth hurts.

The truth can set you free.

Pick wisely.

 

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

Bill Gates and jeff noel?

 

Not to contradict Bill Gates, i say more important than innovation is this insidiously under-focused on thing called vision – your picture of the future that is better than now, much better.

There are four objectives Bill Gates thinks we should prioritize. He sees the future looking much better than now, if we do these:

  1. Provide everyone on earth with affordable energy without contributing to climate change.
  2. Develop a vaccine for HIV and a cure for neurodegenerative diseases.
  3. Protect the world from future health epidemics, which might be more infectious than Ebola and more deadly than Zika.
  4. Give every student and teacher new tools so all students get a world-class education.

Dream big. Get there. Stay there. Repeat.

 

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Benchmark, benchmark, benchmark

Disney leadership expert jeff noel
i’m glad most of this page is out of focus.

 

Benchmark, benchmark, benchmark.

This video is simply, and brilliantly produced.

Mike Dooley speaks truth in his own language, yet it’s a universal language that is work interpreting.

PS. Most workbooks i’ve benchmarked, including Disney’s, are typically packed with text.

 

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