Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Planning on bad things to happen – worst case scenario – is common in business. It’s part of the risk exploration, risk tolerance, and risk recovery planning.
Great companies over-manage this.
Good companies either under-manage this or ignore it altogether.
Same with individuals.
Chasing a dream to be an Olympian.
Remember that book about excuses, regrets, and second chances?
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This post went live yesterday. Wrote it 100 days prior. So the emotional excitement motive was cancelled out because of the three-plus month delay.
The motive was, and still is, to record a monumental milestone in a journey that was overwhelmingly destined to fail, but did’t.
It didn’t fail because i never quit even though i didn’t make a dime in over six years. The very first speaking engagement was a turning point. A catalytic milestone that will get lost and forgotten when success becomes the norm.
And now, today, 200 days later, we remember yet again how most success is arduous until it isn’t.
Much of an organization’s heritage is lost on future employees because it’s not perpetuated. Being intentional (like this post) is key to a culture by design.
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Idiot idealists, right?
Love them or hate them, if big dreams didn’t exist, the refrigerator never would have been invented. Or the car. Or books.
That echo that we hear, “Don’t go chasing crazy dreams, you’ll only end up being disappointed.”
Paradoxically, there’s the disappointment of regret.
It’s your call.
Good luck.
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There’s a reason some of us want to become solo entrepreneurs. And it revolves around a couple simple precepts:
You can create something that everyone thinks is crazy, launch it, and then live with the joy of taking the risk.
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(photo: Epcot Christmas Tree December 2014)
He’s not going to be the person everyone’s expected him to be anymore.
Heard this sound bite last night.
Freaky.
Kinda spine tingly.
Christmas.
A coming.
And then there’s New Years.
Un-freakin’ real.
Hope you are moving forward every day.
That’s the secret.
The long way is the short cut.
Will it be the best year ever?
Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn’t it?
We see what we want to see.
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