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Perhaps The Most Difficult

Rule number one – Life Is Hard!

And perhaps the most difficult thing is to not give up. To not succumb to the pressure, the pain, the doubt, the fear, the sacrifice, the unknown.

Have you ever felt like this? Do you feel like it now? If you do, great! If you don’t, perhaps you should be concerned. Concerned that you’ve slowly but surely lost the fire in your belly to do something great.

As Randy Pausch challenged the world in his book, The Last Lecture, to revisit our childhood dreams before it’s too late, I’m picking up where were he left off, when he died nearly two years ago (July 25, 2009).

Once you accept difficulty, your life opens up to enormous possibility.

Blind Spot

We all have blind spots. You know, stuff everyone else can easily see about us that we are clueless to.

As a professional speaker, the classic example is the keynote speaker who says, “Um” so many times in their speech that you start counting, just to see what a ridiculously high number it will be.

Last night, a consultant I’ve been traveling with said, “You know what I’ve noticed about you? You’ll talk to anyone.”

Blind spots are almost always stereotyped as negative. Guess that’s a big blind spot for all of us.

Disney’s Art Of Animation Resort

Are You A Creative Contributor?

Whether you love Disney or not, we all have to admit that Disney works tirelessly to provide the highest quality, the most creative and amazingly fun experiences for their Guests.

Walt Disney is a beloved American Icon. And it’s Walt Disney’s legacy Bob Iger and the rest of the Disney Team is responsible for maintaining and perpetuating.

What about where you work? What about you? Do you do your part to maintain and perpetuate your organization’s reputation? This Orlando Sentinel article reveals Disney’s latest announcement for a 2012 opening of Disney’s Art Animation Resort.

One Bottle Per Person

Customer expectations are a funny thing sometimes. Some people are so hard to please and some are so easy to please and of course, some are in the middle.

“Good morning, can I get you anything?”, from the friendly, smiling Delta flight attendant – Orlando to Atlanta – sitting here in Business class. “May I please have another water, I’ll finish this one quickly. Thank you.”

The Internet has amazing ramifications, many extraordinarily positive. Like right now, I’m typing this jungle jeff blog post before we taxi away from our gate.

I’ll post this, take the cup of ice water and pour it in the sink. Not ready for another water, ice water is too cold, and an open plastic cup of water probably isn’t the best idea during take off.

Delta only loads one bottle per business class passenger. News to me, but I’m just so thankful to be alive that one bottle per person as the best they can do is so trivial, that it hardly seems worth blogging about.

Hardly.

Business class is reserved for Delta’s most loyal customers.

jungle jeff Is

jungle jeff Is:

An idea
One of Life’s Big Four
A Business
A Website
A Blog
A Way Of Thinking
Our Financial Responsibility
A Movement

Every ant in the ant mound and every bee in the bee hive makes a contribution. Same with humans. Generally speaking, society pays us money relative to our contribution.

With money, we can buy food, shelter, transportation, insurance, and help others.

Money isn’t the root of all evil, it is the love of money that is the trap. Making money is challenging. Investing it and growing it are even more so. But we need to figure it out – it’s our adult responsibility.