Tag: Fear

Starve your doubts

Google Maps screen shot
Yesterday, had already driven over an hour before turning off Interstate 4.

 

Charlotte High School Stadium
First glances at yesterday’s 2015 Sunshine State Games – for athletes age 50 and over.

 

Starve your doubts.

Feed your dreams.

Simple.

Simple doesn’t mean easy, but it does mean simple.

At work.

At home.

Here, there, everywhere.

All day.

Everyday.

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As success becomes imminent, a new fear is born

Confidence
Yesterday, the 14-year old in the blue and white checked shirt demonstrated remarkable calm under pressure.

 

As success becomes imminent, a new fear is born. The fear of looking arrogant. A confident entrepreneurial startup founder must exude confidence.

Exude.

That’s pretty intense. And to some, intimidating. It reminds people of their decaying dreams.

It’s time to follow the fatherly advice i have consistently shared with our 14-year old.

Why focus on the ones who will say jealous things? And we all know how those behind-someone’s-back conversations go, because we’ve all been jealous, so it’s no secret.

It’s the difficult path that others laugh at.

Not because it’s difficult, but because it’s lonely.

And scary.

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If you could only pick from two available vendors

2015 American Idol final four
Last night watching American Idol top four elimination.

 

If you could only pick from two available vendors, which would you pick?

  1. The one promising to help you get your job done?
  2. The one promising to help you change your world?

No brainer?

Or does the fear of being remarkable default you to conformity?

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You’re a zealot and it wears people out

Tim Cook March 2015 Apple event.
Aim for perfection. Settle for excellence.

 

Notes from the final Disney Performance appraisal in 2014. These are word-for-word (copied and pasted here without editing). They were typed on an iPhone sitting across the desk from the leader during the meeting. Kinda like shorthand because we were talking one-on-one:

Zealot.
Teachable moment is every moment. Wears people out.
Willingly go to extremes… All the time.
Masters at their game… Leadership team.

The fourth line was a reference that i should study and emulate the experts, our departmental leadership team. The same group of experts that the team collectively voted as ineffective as the top issue on the employee survey.

Talk about a blind spot.

It is tiring.

On both sides no doubt.

But so is this, the DNA of Walt Disney Operations:

Deliver an excellent experience to every single Guest, every single time, every single day.

No operational leader ever says, “Anything less than 100% is acceptable today.”

Shifting gears…society’s focus on Easter pales in comparison to Christmas. From this it would be safe to assume Christmas is more important.

Is it?

Case in point, today, Christmas finally makes sense.

Happy Easter 2015.

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