Tag: Humility

Worried. Intimidated. Stressed. Under perform as a result?

Hawaii Electric substation on Hana Highway
Were does our energy source reside?

 

Ever go up against work with someone with a remarkable reputation?

Someone you see as the very best at the work you do.

Worried. Intimidated. Stressed. Under perform as a result?

And afterwards be incredibly thankful for the opportunity to work side by side with them because you got to experience something incredible?

And then sometime much later you get a second chance to do it again?

And realize much to your surprise, you are so capable that you actually surprised yourself with how amazingly solid you were the second time around?

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Ever been to one (or all) of these places in your career?

Tree growth rings in a wooden bridge post
Slow and steady growth, year after year after year

 

After nearly 15 years (since March 1999) and speaking to over one million people, something magical is happening within a career.

Ever been to a place like this in your lifetime?

The place where you feel like:

  • an artist
  • unencumbered
  • unmotivated by title, status, rank, salary
  • on fire
  • work everyday as if your life depended on it
  • become a stranger with fear
  • marry possibility
  • inspire positive change
  • feel like you have finally arrived
  • and the next week, years, or maybe even decade (or second half) are your years to bloom

This is insane. Like the first day of first grade.

Real life in real time.

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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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