For some cultures this is the only acceptable standard

To anyone who thinks I’m obsessive about excellence, there is a pressure some may feel.  And it would be key to remember the corporate culture that some organizations demand, especially some of the most admired companies in the world.

And to know this demand is all day, everyday – and the organization is never satisfied – always focused on continuous improvement.

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Find a million ways to stay motivated to keep from going to autopilot

Back of the room was our av guru
Back of the room was an av guru

 

In any life category, how do we push ourselves all day, everyday, to keep from going through the motions?

Yesterday did two things I’ve never done in a classroom before. And this is on top of doing roughly a dozen other rare things.

Find a million ways to stay motivated to keep from going on autopilot.

This is our responsibility and no one else’s.

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The businessman dresses like Mowgli from The Jungle Book

Florida Lake Lilly pads
Life in a sub-tropical central Florida jungle

 

We have all read our share of great business books. While getting established at Disney during the 1980’s, I read Dress for Success. Shortly after that I could have easily been mistaken for a stuffy junior executive at IBM or Wall Street.

My how times have changed, although there are easily 15 dozen ties in the closet.

A reader sent this business shirt link because he likes the way my shirt collars look in pictures posted here and asked where the shirts come from (JC Penny, Stafford Executive).

It was in sending a thank you email to him for the link that I wrote how at home I dress like Mowgli from the Jungle Book – shirtless.

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Today I plan to do a speech in a way I have never done before

First Baptist Orlando seats 5,500
A big audience is a big responsibility, so is a small one.

 

Today I plan to do a speech in a way I have never done before. Just like last time. And the time before that.

Art is not always the best of the best. Art can be doing something in a way no one else does, or with a bandwidth no one else does, or both.

This is the same for all of us, speaker or no speaker.

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