Category: Professionally Speaking

He told the guy something astonishing

Five large wooden stumps as Hawaiian Country Store front porch chairs
Not that guy and not those seats

 

He told the guy something astonishing. He said, “I see you speaking in packed stadiums”.

It was a freaky, fairly random, and completely unsolicited comment.

The recipient felt unusually comfortable with the surprise.

Isn’t our first goal personal transformation. (yet no one clarifies and reinforces this)

A big part of this is the art of humility and compassion.

Two extraordinarily rare business attributes.

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No rest for the weary actually means these two things

World cities signs on a pole along Hana Road
Traveling for a living takes stamina and flexibility

 

No rest for the weary actually means these two things:

  1. It’s nearly impossible to keep up with everything
  2. But we must do it anyway

The administrative work we do goes unnoticed. Take solace knowing we’re all in the same boat.

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Here’s the biggest experiment in all the trips taken over the past 14 years

Teddy Bear on Hawaiian black sand beach
Toting a teddy bear around the world is a bit freakish if your 54 years old

 

Marine Biologists and teddy bear helping Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle
Freakish is as freakish does – all in the name of love

 

Here’s the biggest experiment in all the trips taken over the past 14 years. Feeling self-conscious doing it because it’s so uncommon.

After teaching all day, returning to the hotel, you set out for dinner – maybe 5:30-6:00pm.

The equivalent to eating at midnight back home in Orlando.

For over a decade, have refused to eat anything, even ice cream, after 9pm .

So “dinner” will be the final meal of the day – between 12 noon and 2pm here in Hawaii (12 days of this).

The downside is the person experimenting looks anti-social, freakish.

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Dear readers, let’s pack our energy and share it freely and generously

Volcanoes National Park road just after sunrise
Volcanoes National Park just after sunrise

 

view of Kilauea Iki volcano
Kilauea Iki volcano erupted in 1959

 

Dear readers, let’s pack our energy and share it freely and generously.

The more we give it away, the more it comes back to us.

A simple notion that isn’t understandable until we surrender ourselves time and again.

The results demonstrate the consistency and depth of this notion.

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This is the mark of a true professional – of an artist you might say

Pithy quote from famous author
Our obesity epidemic stems from our resistance to change

 

The c-suite executive said, “They were a tough audience”.

“Yeah”, I said, “But it’s my responsibility to overcome that”.

The next day, anticipating more of the same, from different folks in the same organization, I attacked it completely differently.

Same core, simple, key, repeatable messages.

But with a redirected energy aimed right at their predictable resistance.

I changed. Big time.

This is the mark of a true professional – of an artist you might say.

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