Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Live and let live.
Kinda like freedom.
People will work differently than you.
People will work better than you.
People will work worse than you.
People will like how you work.
People will dislike how you work.
Through it all, remember this mantra…
Live and let live.
Insight: This is what you want others to do for you as well.
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Live and learn.
Three keys to living, learning, and growing:
Remove any one of those three and regret grows like a weed.
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Funny how stress can make obvious, important things invisible.
My stress?
First, i need to re-label the topic.
Instead of stress, i’m using opportunity and challenge interchangeably.
My current and biggest opportunity is learning how to lean into the discomfort of life-stage changes. And to thrive in the change.
Looking on all five blogs what is obvious was invisible to me until 10 minutes ago.
All five blogs have “Quotes” as the most used category.
All five blogs have “Dear Son” as the second-most used category.
In hindsight, it’s a blinding flash of the obvious.
Note: What is also invisible is that “Quotes” and “Dear Son” are wonderfully codependent. Hadn’t recognized that until just now. Cool.
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Dear Son,
Shit you didn’t know…
How could you?
You were just a kid.
What you didn’t know is…
How being your dad inspired and guided everything i did (and why i did it)…
Told you High School freshman year you had to get involved in some after school activity. Never told you what it needed to be other than it was with a group of others that met daily after school.
You didn’t during first semester. And i didn’t make you.
But i insisted you do it second semester.
Further, i reminded you that you could pick anything you wanted.
And i also revealed that if you didn’t pick, i would pick for you.
And i would pick track and field.
Why?
Not because i wanted you to become a runner.
But because track and field offered many different choices.
You picked Shot Put.
Which i thought was a brilliant choice.
Coach Sharrod Williams talked you into cross-country to start your sophomore year.
Never saw that coming.
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If Disney ran your life…
How can you be qualified to lead an expedition if you cannot explain ‘true north” and why it’s the most important thing?
How can you start by focusing on ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do it’ when you don’t know “true north”?
Oh wait, people do it this way because that’s how most do it.
In my 25-year keynote speaking and business advising career, inside 2,000 different organizations to varying degrees of depth and breadth, i witnessed only 1/1000 (yes, thousandth) know why they exist.
Side note: Disney and Advent Health (formerly Florida Hospital) are the only two. That’s two out of 2,000.
True north is why you exist. It’s why your company exists.
When you know and are 100% committed to why you exist, your what and how will reveal themselves. Your what and your how will also reveal when it needs refreshed, revised, or replaced.
But your true north never changes.
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