Category: Do Not Pass Go

Where Does The Road To Excellence Begin And End?

(reminder, there are captions under every photo)

Just the other day I was visiting Disney's Magic Kingdom....
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Walt said it would never be completed. It would always be improving.

The road to excellence begins in the mind, body, and spirit of you and me. So the origin is quite literally the same for all of us – birth. Where we take it from there is as different and unique as snowflakes – infinite designs.

You may not think like me nor I like you, but a very profound, and simple, truth prevails – the road to excellence has no finish line.

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The 3 Worst Things That Happen The Closer You Get To Success

Much prettier than a 3-headed serpent.

Like a hideous three-headed serpent, the closer I get to success, the more these three dangers raise their ugly heads:

  1. Doubt – you forget how far you’ve come, and how much you’ve grown.
  2. Pressure – you want to speed up the process because you’re nearly there.
  3. Insecurity – why is this taking so long? This feeds doubt, reviving the cycle.

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What’s Your Biggest Work Goal In 2012?

Will 2012 be full of results or will it be blank?

The gym will be back to normal in three weeks, after those ambitious resolutions to get healthier fade. What will be invisible is whether or not the same thing happens to people’s ambitious 2012 career goals.

PS. I hope I’m wrong.

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jeff noel Is Stripping This Down To The Simplest Thinking Possible

Books are great, but if a teacher only relies on books, Mediocrity-ville will thrive…

But for some teachers, the best classroom isn’t a classroom at all.

This starting to sink in? jeff noel is stripping this down to the simplest thinking possible.

The damage inflicted on people & organizations when they run from common sense and fundamental understanding is, well, criminal.

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Who Is jeff noel?

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia…two days ago…

And he said, ” Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country”.

It’s a funny thing, being a deep thinker, my intuitive thoughts are mostly cast aside by others as crazy.

And I have to admit, it was extraordinarily painful. For years. More like a lifetime.

So in the put up or shut up test, I decided to take the test – press on and not look back.

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