February 2025 – Page 2 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Three days until Glacier, home

How do we benefit from HQ consistency?

How important is the consistency of our prioritized priorities?

Conversely, what’s at risk if we aren’t consistent?

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Four days until Glacier, home

Rainbow — Last night after dinner. Never gets old.

Garmin Inreach Mini 2 set up screen — Best device for hiking backcountry and its technology gives me peace of mind when i’m in the wild. Been using a Garmin inReach MINi since 2019. Upgraded this year to a MINI 2. Activated it yesterday.

This will be our first summer in Glacier with a rented storage space.

We are organized to have everything we need waiting on us.

It’s a new structure and process after all these years.

Brainstorming improvements and implementing one of the ideas is fun.

And just like in our Disney careers, once an idea is implemented you immediately and instinctively begin improving the improvement.

Wheels up in four days.

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Prioritizing is worship

Prioritizing is worship.

If worship and serving can be considered synonymous, then prioritizing your priorities is the best way to lead yourself.

Leading is serving.

Lead, and serve, yourself first.

Why?

The same reason on an airplane you put the oxygen mask on yourself first — so you can then help others more effectively.

Note: Prioritizing is one of life’s greatest insights. Prioritizing is also one of the least embraced life habits because we have few, if any, people in our life who’ve been taught the process. So there is little growth because there are so few teachers. The teacher is the one who walks the walk. Most everyone else habitually talks the talk. “Someday i’m gonna figure life out.”

“Someday” is a liar.

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How do i test the hypothesis?

Disney writer Jeff Noel in the mountains — Randomly found this 2017 photo of me blogging at Granite Park Chalet.

Being happy with what you have is a great place to be in life.

Pursuing what you want is the American Dream.

Can being happy with what you have prevent you from pursuing what you want?

For example…

i’m happy with spending two hours daily writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts.

As the years continue to pass, especially these years in my 60’s, the thought of having two hours of discretionary time — every day — invested in something different might be a wonderful, and healthy, adventure.

The only way to know is to experiment with the idea.

How do i test the hypothesis?

Does it even matter?

What if i’m wrong?

What if i’m right?

What if i wait too long to try?

What if i start now?

Bonus thoughts:

Never let your memories be bigger than your dreams.

How much is enough?

Be content with what you have and be at peace with who you are.

Luck favors the bold. Luck favors the prepared.

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Banking on every blog

hand written note — One of the final photos from (2023) last Summer’s first-month Glacier visit. Planned to return in one week to continue a planned three-month Glacier season.

Banking on every blog i’ve written (all 30,000+) to help me make the wisest choice.

And at the same time, what seems like an arduous answer to find may be the simplest answer to find.

Time will tell.

i’m enjoying and savoring this opportunity to decide.

Also giddy at how ‘easy’ the solution is gonna be.

Can’t wait to discover it.

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