Tag: Personal Leadership

You Know What’s Funny?

Are You Serious?
Are You Serious?

Comedians are funny.

America’s Funniest Home Videos are funny.

Kids Say the Darndest Things show is funny.

Bloopers are funny.

Being serious is funny.

Huh?

Yes, being serious is funny. Remember the cartoon Walt Disney did so well back in the 1930’s, The Three Little Pigs?

Remember the one Pig that built his house with stone?

Pretty funny when the big bad wolf came and he huffed and he puffed and he blew the other houses down.

Now that’s funny.

What’s not funny, is that scene and this blog post may have been lost on ignorant, ill-prepared people who pawn themselves off as adults.

The Art of Compromise

It's Who You Know
It's Who You Know

Heard this phrase the other night, probably on the TV as I was walking though a room, and I wrote it down.

“The art of compromise.”

We can take guesses as to what this means, or we can simply make up our own meaning. That’s what I did, and came up with five different ways:

  1. Compromising our mind, intellect
  2. Compromising our body, health
  3. Compromising our spirit, faith
  4. Compromising our money, career
  5. Compromising just about everything, CEO of Me, Inc.

The comment’s intent targeted the Senators power to say “no” to President Obama – relationships and the passing of President Obama’s Health Care Bill.

Some Senators held their vote until they got a really good deal for their state. This had people debating it’s fairness, and the Senator’s enormous power to say, “No.”

At the end of the day, it’s really about relationships and who you know.

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s about who you no.

Huh?

How Will You Know?
How Will You Know?

Did you say something?

Yes. I said something.

Weren’t you paying attention?

Huh?

Exactly.

“We judge ourselves by our intentions, others judge us by our behaviors.” — David M (?)

The Difference?

What's The Difference?
What's The Difference?

The difference between those that make the list and those that don’t, whether they be people, organizations, religions, cultures, ideas, patents, and so on, is this:

Here’s what it takes. And I’m well aware there will be people who disagree with this, and people who embrace it.

And if you don’t have it, you will always be following people who do. Here’s the difference:

Passion!

That’s it.

Passion.  The secret ingredient.  The difference.

Guaranteed

Ain’t much in life guaranteed, is there?  Death and taxes, to be sure.

Death.

That’s the one.

What a beautiful gift death should be.

Just like what a beautiful gift birth should be.

And the beautiful gift of the part called “life” – in between the two.

And here’s one more thing that’s guaranteed – life will be difficult.

Guaranteed.

And this simple fact presents us with the most glorious opportunity known to humankind.

Carpe diem.