Epcot’s Voices of Liberty, in red, are holding their microphones in the hand corresponding with their place on stage. No one knows nor cares, except Disney. And me.
Beware the well-worn paths.
They never lead to breakthroughs.
Beware the dark, shadowy paths too.
The dark paths are the ones that eventually lead to breakthroughs, but on the journey much, if not everything, can be lost.
Learn to be a risk taker the same way you learn to save and invest money – slowly and a little bit at a time, over time.
The magic of compound interest for financial growth, sprinkled with faith, in the historically highest return, is stocks.
Non-financial and non-threatening, but uncomfortable risks using confidence, these investments will pay the highest “confidence” dividends over time.
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You can not afford to slip in a place like this. Worrying about slipping kept me away for decades. Not anymore. Photo: Mt Reynolds.
Do you understand your Next + ?
So your Next is your big, multi-year goal/vision. It’s as big a goal or vision as you can ever dream up.
Super-hero big.
My first Next, at age 50, was a 10-year vision to do everything in life i wanted to do if i only lived to my 60th birthday.
Now, at 60, there’s a new Next.
It’s a three-year Next, taking me to my 63rd birthday.
The + is a wild card, diamond in the rough kind of karma.
It’s an accentuated risk taking commitment.
It’s a burn the ships commitment.
It is helping me process a potentially lucrative contract against the work-focus that will be required.
With only 2.5 years left in this Next, a lucrative deal has to be something that happens in the next few days and something that signals to me that the CEO is burning the ships.
The potential to transform a company and the industry they service is intoxicating.
But, and this is a huge but (no pun intended), 99% CEO commitment won’t work.
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i wasn’t 100% committed until Steve and Stacy, Mt Reynolds experts with 12 summits, came into my space 500’ from the 9,152’ summit. Was minutes away from finishing lunch and descending from 8,700’ when they said they’d take me safely to the top.
Fun and totally worth it.
What?
Writing this riff.
The Board (and you) will have decent, even logical, reasons why my price is too high. (And i have decent, logical reasons why it’s a bargain.)
Quite often, out-of-shape and overwhelmed professionals who start the new year off with a gym membership remind me of Board members.
How did they become so toxically unhealthy as they grew their professional careers?
How?
And are any of their reasons (read excuses) good enough to count?
Anyone who’s smart and experienced professionally, yet physically inactive and non-vibrant is suspect.
Why?
How smart can you be to ruin your health?
How smart are you if you neglect the temple housing everything keeping you alive? Organizationally, that’s like neglecting your corporate culture which is the temple housing everything keeping your organizational alive.
Stereotypically, short-term, quarterly focus supersedes the long-game strategy.
Yes, you win short-term. You make more money and inch ever closer to the next bonus, promotion, or accolade, but you do this by ignoring your health. How is that a brilliant, long-term move?
Playing to win or playing to not lose? Even if you succeed at not losing, you still lose.
Winning requires burning the ships.
All in.
If you are not all in (95% is not all in), you are not all in.
Not being all in is not committed.
Not committed is poison.
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