iMindShift with Steve Chandler: I was a garbage man

I was a garbage man

"I was a garbage man. I had no problem with that job. None.
I'd go back and do it again if I had to."

~Larry Bird

That's why he became so great. He had no problem doing the work that other people don't want to do.

Larry Bird proved that it's not speed or strength or genetics or athleticism. It's doing the work that other people won't do.

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I love it when people show courage and put themselves on the line. Charrise McCrorey has a cool blog called Full Out and Fearless in which she explores this issue in very thought-provoking ways. I recommend you visit her...even hire her if you don't have a coach yet.

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"You can turn a conservative bank president into a garbage eating bum just by killing off some of the brain cells that contain the biocomputer program for his personality. If you damage other areas of the brain, you can erase all memory."

~Christopher Calder

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     In the book I called fearless I wrote about the sculptor Henry Moore. Sometimes the secret of life comes down to bold, creative moves. In the mind and in the world. And maybe a truly fearless life doesn't take a lot of accumulated wisdom.

      It might simply be reflected in what Southwest Airlines' brilliant founder Herb Kelleher used to say: "Yes, we have a 'strategic plan.' It's called 'doing things.'"

       I loved what Henry Moore said about this subject to the poet Donald Hall in Hall's book Life Work. Hall had asked Moore-now that Moore had just turned 80-what the secret of life was.

      Moore said, "The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is-it must be something you cannot possibly do!"

      Moore's task was to be the greatest sculptor who ever lived and to know it.

     Most people would think that was a bit obsessive. Most people would scoff at that kind of goal. But I must be different than most people. Because when I came to that part of Hall's book I was lit up for days! I loved it! Because whenever I read something bold like that I suddenly know what I want to do with my life, too. Courage inspires … even the courage of a fearless, impossible vision.

       I'm going to say now that my task is to offer the world this club called club fearless ... and by offering it to the world, I really mean that I only want to offer it to one person. And that would be you.