Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Our pain and discomfort are caused by unmet needs.
This can be motivating. It can also be demotivating.
Choose which beast to feed.
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One of the most under rated benefits of daily journaling is the cathartic effect of being able to say something publicly, and then letting it go, once and for all.
It’s often been said:
If i have to explain it to you, you won’t understand.
But it sure would be cool to blow that up.
Thank you for calling me a zealot and a narcissist. i’ve always valued your feedback.
Walt Disney was a zealot. As are most people with big dreams. The narcissist label has challenged me, in a good way, though. And thankfully, i can see your point.
In my final annual performance appraisal, my leader used those two words to describe my reputation amongst leadership.
And i finally figured out why he felt that way. At least it feels like the only logical explanation. There are times when all we have is our “gut” instinct.
In order to help him see my value, i would, begrudgingly, share things he would never see – an act of desperation really – simply to raise my salary. It was literally impossible for leadership to carve out time to observe the type of work the delivery team does.
How did i come to this realization?
Being on my own for nearly a year now, my salary is not measured by a leader’s opinion, it is measured in revenue – a metric successful companies put on a pedestal.
No one in their right mind would ask for a 30% raise and 50% fewer work hours.
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Truth be told, most (ego-centric) leaders aren’t fond of me.
This used to bother me.
A lot.
So much so that i tried to change.
And in a way, i did, without selling out.
The creative solution (to keep personal integrity intact) is simply to only ask them questions if they ask for input.
Nothing asked, nothing offered.
Safe.
Meanwhile, writing became the outlet for asking uninvited questions.
Questions every leader should have a ready, instantaneous answer to, but, remarkably, don’t.
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Working vacations are under rated and over rated.
Just like exerting the lifetime effort (personal leadership) to stay healthy and active. Or to opt for ‘relaxing, taking it easy, and enjoying life’ at the expense of exertion.
The key is to take enough vacations so that the odds equal out that some are working vacations and some are not.
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If you could only pick from two available vendors, which would you pick?
No brainer?
Or does the fear of being remarkable default you to conformity?
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