Recently while waiting for a flight at the airport, I saw a cute little old lady -- had to be in her 90s -- under 5-feet tall, shuffle-stepping ever-so-slowly to board the flight, cane in one hand, and guided on the other arm by a younger lady, presumed to be her daughter. She was very well appointed in dressy slacks, blouse, blazer… and a baseball cap.
I was startled to see the logo on the cap was Victoria’s Secret. Hardly what you’d expect from a great-grandmother.
Now here’s a fearless matriarch with some serious ‘sass’ going on. She must be the type who refused to be told by anyone what she couldn’t wear, couldn’t do, and couldn’t say. That underneath her elegant matronly exterior was a fiery, tenacious, gutsy lady… high-spirited, full of life, and comfortable in her own skin. At her advanced age. Good for her!
So here is the message - Where’s your spunk? Your boldness? Your sense of dash, derring-do, and defiant individualism?
This is not going overboard by being rude, disrespectful, or ugly to others.
It means stepping into your power so strongly, being so confident and brave, head held high, shoulders square, that you’ll courageously dance to a different beat and break a few rules. And not give a hoot if the world cringes or disapproves.
Most successful people are relentless rule-breakers? Crowd-followers they’re not -- they blaze new paths, preferring to invent their own. In business, they defy industry norms, carve new niches, pursue the un-obvious.
Look at the icons: Gates, Sandberg, Branson, Welch, Disney. Trail-blazers all.
You pick any walk of life and you’ll find a tiny sliver of elite performers who stepped outside the norm and took an unconventional path to prominence. Read a biography of one of these elite performers. They veered off the heavily-traveled path, down a dark, bumpy, dirt road. Often on purpose, occasionally by accident, but always unattached from the crowd.
As poet and award-winning author Maya Angelou said, “If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.”
ACTIONS FOR YOU
If it is success you seek?
Lesson 1, ignore what the world expects you to be, where it expects you to go, how and when it expects you to arrive. That’s your decision and no one else’s. The view is better when you’re not jammed into the center of the herd.
Lesson 2 Do your invites and show the Plan. Yes you will get comments and disapprovals - most often from those closest to you. It will test your resolve.
Most people are derailed right there, from the very start, unable to jump these two attitudinal hurdles - unwilling to risk disfavor, sacrificing high achievement in the process.
For me, I forever want the image of that bold, zesty granny burned in my memory… a vivid reminder to take the road less traveled.
Do you have a Victoria Secret hat – if not get one and wear it to the next BBS
I was startled to see the logo on the cap was Victoria’s Secret. Hardly what you’d expect from a great-grandmother.
Now here’s a fearless matriarch with some serious ‘sass’ going on. She must be the type who refused to be told by anyone what she couldn’t wear, couldn’t do, and couldn’t say. That underneath her elegant matronly exterior was a fiery, tenacious, gutsy lady… high-spirited, full of life, and comfortable in her own skin. At her advanced age. Good for her!
So here is the message - Where’s your spunk? Your boldness? Your sense of dash, derring-do, and defiant individualism?
This is not going overboard by being rude, disrespectful, or ugly to others.
It means stepping into your power so strongly, being so confident and brave, head held high, shoulders square, that you’ll courageously dance to a different beat and break a few rules. And not give a hoot if the world cringes or disapproves.
Most successful people are relentless rule-breakers? Crowd-followers they’re not -- they blaze new paths, preferring to invent their own. In business, they defy industry norms, carve new niches, pursue the un-obvious.
Look at the icons: Gates, Sandberg, Branson, Welch, Disney. Trail-blazers all.
You pick any walk of life and you’ll find a tiny sliver of elite performers who stepped outside the norm and took an unconventional path to prominence. Read a biography of one of these elite performers. They veered off the heavily-traveled path, down a dark, bumpy, dirt road. Often on purpose, occasionally by accident, but always unattached from the crowd.
As poet and award-winning author Maya Angelou said, “If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.”
ACTIONS FOR YOU
If it is success you seek?
Lesson 1, ignore what the world expects you to be, where it expects you to go, how and when it expects you to arrive. That’s your decision and no one else’s. The view is better when you’re not jammed into the center of the herd.
Lesson 2 Do your invites and show the Plan. Yes you will get comments and disapprovals - most often from those closest to you. It will test your resolve.
Most people are derailed right there, from the very start, unable to jump these two attitudinal hurdles - unwilling to risk disfavor, sacrificing high achievement in the process.
For me, I forever want the image of that bold, zesty granny burned in my memory… a vivid reminder to take the road less traveled.
Do you have a Victoria Secret hat – if not get one and wear it to the next BBS