Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.
Must we be our own lifeguard throughout our career?
Absolutely.
It’s a harsh reality.
In the big scheme of things, no one really cares about our success or failure.
Same applies to life’s other four big choices.
Admitting this and embracing it is the ticket to thriving versus surviving.
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Better to lead or compete?
Sorta a trick question but not meant to be.
Competing means you’re doing something everyone else is doing, and trying to do it better.
Leading means paving the way. And the only one in your category.
One of many or one of a kind?
Photo taken from an unknown Facebook status update. If we combined spirit and emotions then the above model would consist of three components.
What’s missing, for me, is work and home. Where do those go? So the model really has five?
In claiming status as The Internet’s Only Five-A-Day Blogger, I’d like to remind everyone this stems from a father/son relationship.
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How would we explain an independent career?
One where we are free to work harder, think deeper, reach higher, and care more than anyone else thinks is reasonable?
In a world full of cookie-cutter effort and energy, we pursue craftsmanship? Art?
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The c-suite executive said, “They were a tough audience”.
“Yeah”, I said, “But it’s my responsibility to overcome that”.
The next day, anticipating more of the same, from different folks in the same organization, I attacked it completely differently.
Same core, simple, key, repeatable messages.
But with a redirected energy aimed right at their predictable resistance.
I changed. Big time.
This is the mark of a true professional – of an artist you might say.
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Bonus post today (scroll down)…
Did our life change because the right two people had lunch on our behalf?
Last night Cheryl had three colleagues (here on business from the west coast) over for steaks on the grill.
An aha moment happened that revealed this truth – it’s a small, random, seemingly insignificant moment in time that alters the course of our lives.
Had Cheryl’s Resident Assistant co-worker not been caught by the Residence Hall Director (with witnesses) sneaking a case of beer into the dorm, Cheryl and I would have never met in the interview to find his replacement (he was fired).
Had Neal (my first Disney Resorts manager in 1985) and Mary (a Disney Director in 1998) not had lunch, my phone wouldn’t have rung requesting an interview.
What’s a small, simple moment that’s altered your life?
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