Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
How’s your patience level these days?
Are you comfortable with the pace of positive change, positive progress?
I’m not.
Sometimes, I just want to shout, “Wake up!”
But now, more than ever, is a great time to play it safe, unless your name is Seth Godin or Hugh MacLeod.
Look, all of us dream big dreams. This is an endowment from our creator.
And when we were kids, we had no inhibitions about pretending and fantasizing. I mean, we were 100% okay walking around with chocolate smeared on our faces, and we couldn’t give a hoot if our clothes didn’t match.
Heck, we’d even walk around in public, naked. Or wear a smelly diaper. We didn’t care. Not for a nano-second.
But look at us now. Fear paralyzes us. And it all comes down to two simple reasons:
It’s this fear of success that is the stealth robber of our childhood dreams.
We all have within us another endowment. One which needs our attention, before it’s too late.
Humans are fearful creatures. Fear is a gift bestowed on us to help us survive.
Funny thing is though, Saber-Toothed Tigers are extinct, yet we live as if we might get eaten.
When we hear people complain about their boss, the Government, their colleagues, you know what that person is really complaining about?
They are really complaining about their own insecurities to take initiative and thrive, instead of simply surviving.
As people read this, a third will embrace it, a third will not care, and a third think I’m an idiot.
Life goes on.
I feel sorry for all the leaders who are so busy trying to survive. Why? Because I’m one of them too. And so are you. You know exactly what I’m talking about. You know the pain. The anxiety. The fear. The doubt.
It’s the odorless, colorless, invisible poison that sucks creativity, risk-taking and most importantly, innovation, right out of the room.
And what is the most frustrating, for nearly everyone, is that we all pretend that everything is fine.
It isn’t.
The antidote?
Ah, if I told you, you’d be happy in knowing it, but you wouldn’t do anything with it.
Would you?
PS. Like Tuesday’s post claimed, nothing is private anymore. Learn to live in this new atmosphere. It ain’t going away.
Sometimes we need the proverbial spanking, or maybe a kick in the buttocks, to rattle our cage enough to do what’s common sense but not common practice.
Ask yourself, “Why don’t I have a personal vision/mission statement?”
Imagine a child – maybe your child, niece or nephew – asking you, very seriously, “What’s the meaning of life?”
We expect everyone else to have a clue. But not ourselves.
Mind-boggling.
Then one lucky day, someone did me the favor of a major cage rattling, and I finally did something about it.
Any other way is just lame.