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Short jaunt from downstairs

two story home foyer steps
Carrying a DIY bookshelf upstairs.

Enjoying the gentle, small glimpses of rediscovering a more carefree jeff.

How?

Shedding stuff (for years and years).

Shedding work/career responsibilities (one final “consulting” client – my favorite and longest). This one is a significant catalyst. A recent decision to commit to officially stop.

Note: Still gladly doing Disney Customer Service Keynotes. Never feels like work. Dedicated my life to synthesizing Disney’s world class customer service reputation into something that anyone can do.

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We teach without a plan

yellow post it note with a turret flag drawing
Circa 2014: My Castle turret sketch for a graphic designer.
yellow post it note with a turret flag drawing
Another version of the Castle turret. Created a bunch of these to help a graphic designer see what i was saying.

We teach without a plan.

How?

We teach with our behaviors.

Our behavioral habits demonstrate what we actually believe in.

The unspoken challenge (and unspoken opportunity) is to become self aware.

Self aware of our limited efforts to shed the unproductive things we do. The unproductive habits that develop over time because in the early stages, they brought us pleasure or eliminated pain. We welcomed that in those earlier days. And we will become what we repeatedly do, so those insidious mechanisms to create pleasure or to avoid pain are unconsciously who we are.

Everyone close to us knows it.

Our original plan to create pleasure or avoid pain are counter-productive to identifying our life’s priorities in a prioritized order.

A vicious cycle that quietly moves from generation to generation.

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My Stage Door Cafe at DU

cafe hours sign
Note to self. i under-utilize this special Cast Member perk. It’d be nice to not to.
6-second video: Wonder if any of this group are some of those we see daily in our yard.
12-second video; Same Keegan i sent a sunset video to two days ago.

My Stage Door Cafe is a figure of speech. And simultaneously, it’s true.

As a retired Cast Member i have easy, all-the-time access to Disney University and Stage Door Cafe.

Note: Most months i visit DU a half-dozen times.

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Steps to prioritization

Two MacBooks and an iPad being recycled in an Apple Store
What were the odds of Gary helping me at the Apple Store yesterday. Not zero but close. Delightfully surprised to catch up with him.
doctor office
Health is wealth.

Steps to prioritization are simple. Priorities are filtered by:

  1. Non-negotiable
  2. Famous for
  3. Business need

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Right fit talent, home

Walt Disney World Casting Center
Here you can zoom in a bit easier on Walt’s socks.

What company matches a building’s exterior and interior walls to it’s founder’s socks?

Why would anyone do this?

No one will make the connection. So why do it?

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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.