Tag: Living

Aging is cool, work

if disney ran your life podcast
Hard to imagine this podcast (If Disney Ran Your Life) was never anything i wanted to do. Ever! i told Jody Maberry (the host)\ (and host to 600+ episodes of Lee Cockerell’s “Creating Magic” podcast) that i wasn’t interested. At all. Told Jody that for three years. Why 3 years? Because we hit it off and became Glacier National Park kin. Then i caved and we started recording. Our first “official episode” was at the top of the Kuwait Towers. i was there to do a TEDx Talk. i paid Jody’s way to join me. It was extraordinary.
If Disney Ran Your Life Podcast in Kuwait
i invited Jody along with one goal – to record Episode one of Season 3 – the official launch of If Disney Ran Your Life podcast. We had lunch at the top and recorded from the top. What are the odds? Zero!!!!

Aging.

Advantage or disadvantage?

Aging is cool if you have a great CEO.

If you don’t have a great CEO, you’re doomed.

You know about life’s various wakeup calls.

What i just wrote may be a small wake-up call.

Painful in acknowledging it.

But true, for context.

You reap what you sow.

i’ve always loved being a gardener, even when i knew very little about gardening.

Not gonna lie, for a decent amount of years (at least the past 20), i feel like a master gardener.

Bloom where you’re planted.

Some gardener-personal leadership context…

Plants need three things to thrive.

  1. The right soil.
  2. The right amount of light.
  3. The right amount of water.

Ever seen a cactus near the Amazon river?

Ever seen a palm tree in the desert. (An oasis doesn’t count, which actually proves the 3 things plants need).

Ps. Did i mention we are seven days from wheels up to Paris?

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An art form learned gradually is better than hitting the lottery

List of wish list criteria
Use these three to guide your 2015 wish making: Imagination, hope, joy.

 

Personal leadership is the gradually learned art of making our challenges so compelling to solve and their potential solutions so valuable that we can not wait to get started on them each day.

It’s ok to click through to the HQ post with a question you’ve probably never been asked…

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Only one way to have balance?

Dorney Park Roller Coasters in Winter

 

(photo: Dorney Park roller coasters during yesterday’s winter jog in Allentown, Pennsylvania.)

Cliche, but life is full of highs and lows, like a roller coaster.

The thing about the future and our ability to lead ourselves is that everything in the future is unpredictable.

Except one thing.

Death.

Be ready for death at any time. This is the ultimate personal leadership strategy.

Being intentional about this frees you to be intentional about one other critical success factor.

Living like you mean it.

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What happens when we are intentional where the Herd is unintentional?

jungle jeff older blog post with clear vision
Clear, concise, compelling? Not for everyone.

 

Never get bored with the basics. You know, complicated stuff like common sense.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. – George Washington Carver

When we are intentional where the Herd is unintentional or completely oblivious, we pique the worlds attention.

Slowly.

But it happens.

It’s happening here.

And it’s seems like it’s taking forever, but in reality, the seed is only breaking the soil’s surface.

Insight: Patience is strength.

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Best Day Of Your Life?

It's True
It's True

A few weeks ago, I asked the hotel breakfast buffet attendant, “What’s your secret?”

She, maybe in her late 60’s early 70’s, said, “My days are numbered and I’m not wasting a single one having a bad day!”

And I thought and pronounced to myself, “I knew it!!”

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