Could This Change Your Life? – Page 42 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

We default to someone else taking initiative

Why do we default to someone else taking the initiative?

Because:

We’re in a hurry.
It’s only a little thing, it doesn’t really matter.
These things fix themselves.
It’s not my problem.
Everyone will see it and go around.

But what if someone doesn’t see it in time?

What if something tragic happens?

Could you live with the knowledge that it would have been an easy fix but you didn’t take the time?

What message are you sending to the 14-year old sitting in the passenger seat when you ignore it?

What message do you send when you take action?

Constant, daily choices.

Legacy.

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Only one way to have balance?

(photo: Dorney Park roller coasters during yesterday’s winter jog in Allentown, Pennsylvania.)

Cliche, but life is full of highs and lows, like a roller coaster.

The thing about the future and our ability to lead ourselves is that everything in the future is unpredictable.

Except one thing.

Death.

Be ready for death at any time. This is the ultimate personal leadership strategy.

Being intentional about this frees you to be intentional about one other critical success factor.

Living like you mean it.

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A simple work reminder for 2015

(photo: Pretty sure the founder didn’t claim to be “The Hot Dog King” in 1922.)

A simple reminder for all you zealots working at admirable companies. People think you’re the last group needing a reminder to be amazing for the new year.

Passionate, ambitious, authentic people are always looking at what they can do to make things better.

Always.

But they subconsciously forget that what they are already doing is amazing.

How do you inspire these crazy, passionate, game changers?

They doubt themselves too.

Constantly.

Even though you think they don’t.

PS. Guess who had hot dogs for dinner last night?

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How’s retired life?

(photo: Box of new Mid Life Celebration equipment.)

Two more days left in the first month of retirement. How does it feel?

Busy as ever.

But haven’t hopped on a plane in four weeks.

Have had four consecutive weekends off.

And had yesterday (Thanksgiving) off too.

The work is intense, just different.

Good stuff.

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It’s either no big deal or potentially a heart attack

(photo above: The Dr Phillips Hospital ER department moved remarkably fast. It was delightfully surprising.)

(photo above: In room X-ray machine… chest X-ray this time)

(photo above: getting ready for four different CT scans last night)

The triage EKG was ‘cloudy’, meaning it was abnormal. The good news is it wasn’t threatening. Blood was drawn simultaneously.

Then escorted to ER room #24. It had a private bathroom. Living the dream or beginner’s luck? Luck.

After an in-room chest X-ray, was wheeled down the hall for CT scans of the brain, neck, spine, lungs, and heart.

The catheter proved handy for injecting the dye for one scan in particular.

Once again, our thinking is either panic, denial, or strength.

Going with strength.

Final answer.

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