Tag: Writing

Happy April Fool’s Day Eve

Disney Leadership Speakers

 

(photo: Wish this tragedy from a few days ago, December 17, was a prank. Fear can paralyze. It can also embolden.)

Trimmed LinkedIn yesterday. It was already brief. Now even more so.

Less is more.

Or is that just an inspiring theory?

Writing for two hours every single day, six years straight, significantly changes what a person fears. And what they’ll do.

It began April Fools Day, 2009 but was only to last 100 days.

It’s been 2,190 consecutive days.

Never saw them coming:

  • The tragedy in the photo above.
  • The writing for years on end.

Never saw either one coming, not in a million years.

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Write about the stuff that dominates your life

Allentown Pennsylvania road sign

 

(photo: Each day we pass by many things… do we see them? Do we care? Do they inspire us? Are we grateful?)

Write about the stuff that dominates your life…

We were talking about Disney and why there’s so much of it on these blogs.

And like this other post today, it’s relatively obvious.

Disney occupies 60 hours of every week.

In some ways work is the center of our lives. If you subtract sleep, work is the lion’s share of where we spend our time.

And when we’re on vacation guess what happens, these posts revolve around vacation.

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Not until then will any of us (ever) make dramatic leaps in our leadership

Found this speaker’s talk on becoming a better writer very interesting. For a great writer, she is also a very good speaker. And when Beth began talking about running – like a boss – was compelled to write this post….

 

 

When was the last time we thought about leadership everyday for a whole week (or month, or year)?

And by think about it, let’s be clear and say this:

  • Our responsibility to get better at it
  • Our relative effectiveness, if we could measure it
  • Our preoccupation with how important it is
  • Our preoccupation with how important our every move is
  • Coaching, counseling, teaching others (everyday, remember)

When was a week like that?

When was a month like that?

When was a year like that?

Every dang day.

Got it.

Not until then will any of us (ever) make dramatic leaps in our leadership.

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Hunger jar and an impossible goal…

How often do we receive signs? And what category of sign – critical, ironic, hopeful, etc?

And how often from the most obscure place?

Couple of days ago at Disney’s Beach Club having breakfast, overheard a conversation in which it sounded like “hunger jar”. It resonated in such a strange way.

Later, Googled it. Nothing.

Is ‘hunger jar’ like a bucket list? But without a wanting-to-do-things list?

Would a hunger jar contain things we are hungry for, longing for, maybe even desperate for?

A few hours later, back home, a FB update, a trigger, another sign, then a photo, then this post (photo below):

 

Jeff Goins Facebook update to writers
The Last Sentence… from a Facebook update.

 

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