Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker
One million+ people globally while at Disney Institute.
No, but he has two gifts that he works to his advantage.
Know what they are?
We all have them delivered to us at birth.
Most likely, however, we throw the directions away too early and never recover.
They are profoundly simple and yet, simply profound.
And it will have to wait until tomorrow.
Meanwhile, maybe you can guess. Maybe not.
Many great thinkers, game changers some call them, have had to deal with ridicule and doubt most of their lives.
There comes a point, however, when something clicks, something comes together and others finally embrace their crazy notions:
There is one significant difference between the people who make the list and those that don’t.
Most posts I write are relatively brief; however, this one may take a while. And bailing at this point is up to you.
But may I just say one thing before you go, and it’s something I’ve always known. In fact, I honestly believe every one knows this.
The difference between those who are excellent, versus those who are good or very good, is three things:
In February, I recall a conversation with our son (then eight) that went like this, “If you want to be a good reader, you should read a lot. If you want to be a good runner, you should run a lot.”
He was doing his nightly reading homework, and I was doing my nightly stretching in preparation for the August Masters Track & Field World Championships in Finland.
Then the epiphany, “If you want to be a good writer, you should write a lot.”
So I set out on a 100-day challenge. Write every day. Perhaps a stretch with one daily blog, but I had set up five blogs.
How in the hell heck does a person write five blogs a day, every day?
Impossible.
Well, maybe not impossible for 100 days, right? I mean, apply the keys to success – focus, discipline and hard work.
One-hundred days. “You can do it, dude”, I said to myself.
To be continued….
With so much to say, where does a person start? Well, if you’re a runner, it’s easy, you start at the starting line. But if you’re not a runner and you’re several decades into your life and your job or career, then what?
Then maybe start here, in Lane 8:
There, I said it. Hope this doesn’t scare anyone off. It is what it is.
Hard work is a great game plan.
Hope is not a game plan.
Hope is indispensable, please don’t misunderstand the intent here.
But hope alone, is not a game plan, hard work is:
Rather try hard and fail, than to simply hope and never try hard enough.
Resist the temptation to lean on self-pity. Click here if all you want right now is hope. You must have hope. It’s not a game plan, but it is the start.