Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
(photo: After six years, still don’t have a business card. Ordered some yesterday.)
Five days away from the five-a-day milestone. The key insight is this:
Our path never plays out the way we dream. It’s either better or worse. Our job is keep moving forward.
We can never make progress if we stop.
Duh.
Sounds so logical.
Yet why do we quit so soon after we begin these ambitious journeys?
And what happens to the folks who refuse to quit?
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Rethinking public education in 2015 makes sense to Baby Boomers.
Rethinking mid-life, right now, is a much tougher sell to Boomers.
In either case, it is done to change the trajectory.
The 2nd best time to rethink was yesterday.
The best time is today.
Do something that scares you, or something you “absolutely don’t have time for”, like take a walk outside.
Ask, “Am I satisfied?”
A summary of how and why Finland is rethinking education is here.
(Summary: By 2020, Finland plans to phase out teaching individual subjects such as math, chemistry and physics, and instead teach students by ‘topics’ or broad phenomena, so that there’s no more question about “what’s the point of learning this?”)
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Who teaches us this?
Theory is meaningless without action.
Knowlege isn’t power.
Knowledge is only the seed of power.
Power comes from action.
Taking risks is risky. So is playing it safe.
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Can you pin point the thought or event that changed the direction of your life?
The catalytic thought that changed the trajectory of my life…
The notion of, “What would we do if we only had six months to live” just didn’t feel right…
A more compelling idea emerged, “What if we had only ten years to do everything we ever wanted to do in life?”
Sorta chuckled right away that one year would go by and i’d suddenly be embarrassingly reminded of that “promise”, “Uh oh, now i only have nine years to do the ten year plan.”
The idea that it all had to be done within a decade was intoxicating because it seemed so doable. So much so that i began six months before the milestone 50th birthday – the starting line of “the next ten years”.
Rather than procrastinate, i got a tax ID and started an LLC on January 1, 2009.
The big picture?
Five more years to finish a 30-year Disney career and retire at 55.
And five more years to put a dent in the Universe – to raise money to fund a cure for Crohn’s disease.
Now here we are.
To be continued…
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Here’s to hoping today provides us multiple moments of undistracted, unmedicated, peaceful introspection, in spite of the heavy burdens on our shoulders.
In these moments, our attitude is adjusted in a more deliberate way.
An intentional, good way.
This basically is a daily habit we master or don’t master.
PS. The photo above shows a bar set dangerously low. How about:
“Go a lifetime without complaining and see what happens.”
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