Three simple choices in 2016

Florida sunrise reflection over golf course pond
On a run this past week to visit with a potential client staying at Disney World.

 

Working diligently, creatively, tirelessly, and joyfully is the only approach that makes the effort to stand out seem worthwhile.

Why?

Because standing out is virtually impossible.

Here’s to 2016 being the year you break away from the status quo.

Quick review of our three choices:

  1. Keep up with our competition
  2. Be the best in our category
  3. Become the category

Go!

 

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No sweat means it’s totally appropriate

Disney, creativity, keynote, speaker
Everyone is at Chef Mickey’s for breakfast.

 

Disney employees and Guests
Where Magic lives…(L-R: me, Kate Shubert and Jeffrey Williford from Disney Institute, and consultant Leslie Mullens from Hawai’i)

 

Do at least one thing a day that scares you.

Was it appropriate to drop in on the group during their relaxed and fun breakfast with the Disney characters?

Walked around the resort taking photos and realized that i had cooled down and stopped sweating.

An invitation came via text. The rest, as they say, is magic history.

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A Disney flashback applied to yesterday

American Cemetary
Allentown, PA Cemetary, vaguely related to today’s post.

 

A 15-year old Disney leadership flashback applied to yesterday.

Last week while in Denver at the Authority Rainmaker event, an email from Orlando:

Are you available next Thursday May 21?

A former client has initiated a request for my Disney consulting services. Had no idea of the details last week, but in the past three days we hammered everything out.

Then yesterday a call. “Jeff, we are postponing the session for two weeks. One of the leaders in another department passed away from a sudden heart attack.”

Stunned. Saddened.

We worked through this and then before hanging up i asked:

If the speed limit is 55, how fast can i drive before you would become uncomfortable? And let’s assume 100 would be reckless. He said somewhere near 85.

My job is to rattle the cage of every person in the room.

Taking risks is risky. So is playing it safe.

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Today, as fate would have it, is May 21 (the original date of the speaking engagement) as this is written.