Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
The tie was a gift from a colleague many years ago. All that was said was, “Really like your tie”. He said, here, it’s yours.
He must have felt like a million bucks in his insanely giving moment.
Like the feeling in photographs we see of extraordinarily grateful people.
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On the plane yesterday an epiphany. A short 30-minute flight, and a headache, from Buffalo to Detroit. No ambition to squeeze in work, not even to read a few more pages of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book.
We talked most of the flight. She’s been in sales with the same company, traveling every week of the year (Monday through Thursday night) and hates it. But she’s trapped – there is nowhere she can go and make the kind of money she makes.
Without thinking, shared my philosophy about work and purpose and money.
In the process realized that excelling at your current job will never earn remarkable salary increases.
That happens only by climbing the ladder.
If you are going to be trapped, pick the one that lights your fire.
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What is art and do you do it everyday?
Art is doing what you do remarkably well.
Everyday?
How can we not?
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If we complain a lot we get really really good at it.
If we rejoice a lot we get really really good at it.
We become what we focus on, whether we mean to or not.
Hell or Heaven?
Up to us.
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He had no money when he arrived in 1973, just a piece of paper (a passport-like travel document). No relatives, no friends, didn’t speak English.
What got our conversation started was him asking me what I do for a living. Professional speaker, here yesterday to teach Creativity and Innovation at Corporate College to the regional business community.
He has always been self-employed. Gas stations, shipping, transportation, etc. But in 2008, the EPA fined him $400,000. He went to get a loan from his long-time banker. The banker’s hands were tied. It was 2008 and the world’s economic walls were crumbling.
Eventually he paid an environmental lawyer $40,000 and then paid the EPA $10k instead of $400k.
In this same time period, he discovered his wife was seeing someone else. They divorced.
He thinks people who complain about trivial things are a joke.
Shared a smile, thanked him and told him it was a great blessing to meet him.
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