The one thing we often overlook even though it’s critical to our success

Steel bridge girders with massive nuts and bolts
Crushing a paper bag is child’s play

 

The one thing we often overlook even though it’s critical to our success is feedback, especially… when we CRUSH it!

An email the account manager sent to her leadership team announced that their client didn’t think the speaker could top last year’s stellar keynote.

Using all caps and the word crush is fairly significant. Never forget that. If we had a marketing manager, they’d exploit this.

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The one thing that is shamefully rare in today’s competitive business world

Sara Bareilles’ new song Brave crossed Mid Life Celebration’s path on exactly the right day. Talk about timing.

Had an intense, and extraordinarily useful conversation from an unlikely source.

The topic yesterday was being brave.

My argument was that I was not being brave. But I argued I was, with humility as the first filter.

It dawned on me that humility is rare.

Shamefully rare.

And practicing the art of humility can stun people because they can’t even tell what it is.

 

 

This was an exciting discovery to realize how far I’ve come. Hope you are finding surprising and useful ways to gauge your progress.

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Sometimes, do you want to fall to your knees with deep and grateful humility?

homeless man sitting asleep inside Cafe Du Monde
exhausted, overworked, from trying to simply get by day to day

 

Sometimes, do we want to fall to our knees with deep and grateful humility?

So challenging to get done all we need to get done.

We push through the pain anyway.

We are driven.

Time is the challenge, not desire.

I’m pushing 9:00pm and still have another blog to write.

Like now, realizing how easy some people must make it look to write and post five daily blogs.

It’s anything but.

On my virtual knees… praying for strength to finish.

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This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog

 

It’s really simple

simplicity
simple doesn’t mean easy, it only means not complex

 

It’s really simple. Be determined to reach your loftiest, most noble goals. Be humble in your journey and with your inevitable successes (and failures). Keep things as simple as possible.

Simple enough, even a child could understand.

This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog