Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Many businesses will honor the United States tradition of closing their doors to doing business, and take a day off from work, to remember the price of freedom.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Fly the American Flag proudly. Honor our United States Military, even if you are against war.
In fact, no one likes war. And yet our Service Men and Service Women put their very lives on the line so that we can sleep under a blanket of freedom each night that few have ever known.
Unrelated to yesterday’s post about questions, wanted to share some very interesting answers from a man on the plane a few days ago.
He appeared to be a very successful business man. Not by the way he dressed, but by the way he talked. So I asked him, “What advice would you give to someone starting their own business?”
1. You must have unquenchable passion for the “failure is not an option” attitude.
2. You should not borrow money to finance your business. Early on it becomes too big a burden.
3. Never be afraid to ask anyone anything.
He’s doing well at what he loves. His office is attached to his home, and overlooks a pond in the mountains of North Carolina.
Rule number one – Life Is Hard!
And perhaps the most difficult thing is to not give up. To not succumb to the pressure, the pain, the doubt, the fear, the sacrifice, the unknown.
Have you ever felt like this? Do you feel like it now? If you do, great! If you don’t, perhaps you should be concerned. Concerned that you’ve slowly but surely lost the fire in your belly to do something great.
As Randy Pausch challenged the world in his book, The Last Lecture, to revisit our childhood dreams before it’s too late, I’m picking up where were he left off, when he died nearly two years ago (July 25, 2009).
Once you accept difficulty, your life opens up to enormous possibility.
We all have blind spots. You know, stuff everyone else can easily see about us that we are clueless to.
As a professional speaker, the classic example is the keynote speaker who says, “Um” so many times in their speech that you start counting, just to see what a ridiculously high number it will be.
Last night, a consultant I’ve been traveling with said, “You know what I’ve noticed about you? You’ll talk to anyone.”
Blind spots are almost always stereotyped as negative. Guess that’s a big blind spot for all of us.
Five training tips I learned from Bob Pike:
1. Show…not tell
2. The “eyes” have it
3. The 90/20/8 rule
4. Tune in to “WIIFM”
5. Work books that work