Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
“It not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” . — Charles Darwin
“Keep moving forward“. — Walt Disney
Friday night my son and I watched “Meet the Robinsons” on The Disney Channel. At the very end of the Disney movie is Walt Disney’s quote.
Do you know what Charles Darwin and Walt Disney are trying to say?
jungle jeff MBA. Who woulda thought, after all these years, I’d be returning to school to get an MBA?
Why do people return to school after decades of real-world leadership experience? Many reasons to be sure.
The main reason is the pursuit of a better way of life. Can you imagine, “Nope, heading back to school because I have all this extra time and money. Plus, I’m bored stiff just sitting around”?.
Dude, seriously, we need to talk. It don’t happen like this. In fact, my story is almost a fairy tale of a completely different sort.
My professor is crazy. He’s cool, but tough. On the first day, he told me everyone who attends his class has three years to do something that no other MBA requires….
“Money, Money, Money….Money“. The O’Jays, 1974, For The Love of Money.
I want to make a ton of money. Seriously. Enough to buy whatever I want.
First on my list:
To take action, – to “put my money where my mouth is” – I’ve returned to school to earn my MBA.
Maybe that’ll be second on the list – pay off school loans.
Money. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Money has always been my biggest stressor.
Eventually, I learned a very simple and very profound rule. It is the first rule that should be learned.
What made this most basic of rules so elusive for me, is that I did not subscribe to common sense. A million reasons for that, which I’ll not even attempt to address.
The second rule I learned is have a business. After reading “Rich Dad Poor Dad” last Christmas, my whole mindset about money was changed forever….
Ideas worth sharing.
David Hoffman talks on Losing Everything.
I often wonder who I’d be if I lost everything. Just yesterday, I was tempted (for a very brief moment) to think I actually had.
It was one of the best, and briefest, moments of my career.
Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂