Hey Preacher Man, how’d you do?

French Quarter hotels
French Quarter hotel nearly 100 years old
grand father clocks
time waits for no one, especially show time
positive reinforcement
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down…
window view
a room with a view? absolutely
the office
my workshop a few days ago
fancy curtains
pretty fancy curtains
fancy lights
pretty fancy for a ceiling light

Hey Preacher Man, how’d you do? It’s so darn easy to see the plank in another’s eye, and never notice our own. How in tune are we with our ability to balance life’s (five) big choices?

How’d I do? Depends who you ask.

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Normally a question like this implies (career) health-related issues

It’s a trap, isn’t it?

So easy to find a routine that works for us, but not necessarily for our customers nor employees.

What if, let’s say, a professional speakers never gave the same speech twice…

final lecture?
will every speech be delivered as if it was the final opportunity?

What will we decide to not do today, that won’t show up as regret until 20 years from now?

For example: by giving speeches that always contain the essential, timeless insight, but are never delivered in the same exact style – there’s no regret later for wishing we had been a better artist at our craft.

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What’s the long term legacy of a leader?

Manhattan (top), Brooklyn (middle), Barclays Center (lower center-left “white “dot”)…

Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Barclays Center
Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Barclays Center

My friend Nuwanda travels as a professional speaker. A lot. He says this fact makes the world seem smaller.

He spent a week in Brooklyn (two weeks ago), and flying to Hartford last week, flew right over Brooklyn and snapped this photo.

Looking down from “Heaven” he thought, “What will we leave behind that others will be thankful for?”

He commented that we so rarely look at the sky.

And when in the sky, we so rarely look at the ground.

Why?

Because we are busy leading, managing, worrying, fixing, delighting, planning, hurrying… building a reputation… of some sort… one easy to see by someone watching.

By someone following in our footsteps.

And then he asked, “Do we ever look at the path we’re making?”

Will we look back and wonder, “Why did I spend so much time working? We now realize our children get only one childhood. One.”

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Should we, will we, are we… A catalyst for positive change?

a catalyst for positive change (photo: a friend)
a catalyst for positive change (photo: a friend)

Most of us want to help others more than we do. Yet our daily grind puts pressure on our valuable time. And distracts us.

Some lucky folks actually have it embedded in their job description.

Well, sort of, truth be told, few of us actually have it written in our job descriptions. The work-around?

Just need to put it there ourselves. Just do it!

We are hereby granted permission to re-write creatively.

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