I realized my talk is cheap (and so is yours)

career rewards
what’s the reward at the end of the rainbow?

I realized my talk is cheap (and so is yours). But here’s the paradox. We talk as if what we’re gonna do instantly makes us a better person, a more productive, effective, reliable, honest, trustworthy person. It doesn’t.

The way I figure it, what we do at work, and how we do it, will never be better than in the (next) final two years.

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I’m on to something and you’re the first to hear about it

courage
no, i haven’t started drinking again…there’s always a lot of courage when you’re drunk

There’s something to this and you’re the first to hear about it. Aging scares many people. So does retirement. We shouldn’t be afraid of either. But we are. And the end result is we avoid thinking about endings. Have already begun changing that… been working on it for 3.5 years so far…

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How certain can anyone be?

10-year plan
what if we aged with a 10-year plan?

How certain can anyone be? Fair, midland, completely? Life is full of uncertainty. Chock full. So what’s the right formula? Truth be told, there is no certainty, except that one day, we will die. I made a 10-year plan just before turning 50:

  • 5 more years at Disney
  • 5 years to raise money for a Crohn’s disease cure

Insight: We live life by design or by default. A 10-year plan? What if we did?

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Are you being set up?

March 2012 Strengthsfinder 2.0 results...

Are you being set up? I mean, really, who can be so sure of themselves and their conditions, and not fear being politically incorrect? What do you think? Would you set your sights on the future with such clarity?

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