Why aren’t we crystal clear with ourselves about this?

Disney University Lobby
Photo from earlier this week. A lifetime here is a heavy influence in how i think. In 1982, i worked on the second floor every Friday in Cast Activities.

 

It was weird in hindsight.

We talked at length yesterday about how powerful culture is. Everyone knows it’s critically important.

Yet like health, we don’t do much about it (today).

It’s something we save for when we have time.

The harsh reality is we never have time.

We aren’t organized enough to be crystal clear about our priorities.

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From one Mouse House to another

Disney's Contemporary Resort at Sunrise
Four miles from here to hq.

 

Apple Watch workout app
There were a fair number of breaks in the almost three hour run.

 

Mid Life Celebration home office
Mid Life Celebration (hq pictured here) is one of the best companies to work for.

 

From one Mouse House to another was today’s round trip run.

Living your dream takes many things.

Being decently organized is one of them.

i think about mornings like this one and realize this is how the early pioneers must have felt when after they did the arduous work of striking out on their own, clearing their land, surviving the unforgiving environment, planting their crop, figuring out how to live until harvest, and then the harvest.

The glorious, life-sustaining harvest.

And then their spirit soared.

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Unwilling to use state of the art technology?

Apple Time Machine backup
Last night getting ready for this morning.

 

Unwilling to use state of the art technology?

Bought a new MacBook 12″ three weeks ago. Haven’t turned it on yet, but will in a few hours.

Upgrade when you don’t have to so that you are ready before you need to be.

So am i unwilling?

Pfft.

PS. Sometimes we crack ourselves up. Embrace and enjoy those moments.

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Finally realized why it’s tough to commit sometimes

Business meeting outside a Publix
This breakfast meeting two days ago lasted three hours, because neither was over-scheduled.

 

A friend is bringing his lovely family from Ohio to Walt Disney World in two weeks. And it is in our trying to schedule time together that a blind spot was revealed just a few minutes ago while waiting for the microwave to finish heating a cup of water.

He’s here for one week. i’m out of town for three days, leaving us four days, including two weekend days, which i try to keep for Family. When you are out of town, your schedule is busier for a few days after you return, simply because you were out of town. You miss three days of normal daily chores. So you add those in upon your return and they appear on days where they normally don’t – so several normal busy days become busier busy days.

i’d like to play it by ear. He’d like to know in advance.

With his visit, time is exceptionally precious because he’s at WDW attempting to make the most of every minute.

On the other hand, i’m at WDW (home) too, but i’m trying to not over schedule my days because too many unexpected things happen. Having white space allows for them.

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Everything is easy

Apple iPhone 6 screen shot
The right business model can accommodate a pocket sized business model.

 

Everything is easy when you know how to do it.

Do you find being organized difficult?

Here’s what i’ve come to accept about my organizational shortcomings:

  • Nothing will change if i don’t want the change bad enough
  • Failure used to stop me from continuing the journey
  • Continuing the journey (trying again and again) leads to breakthroughs
  • It’s easy to make excuses
  • It’s even easier to get used to being disorganized

i accept the truth that our degree of personal organization is the degree to which all other things in our life prosper or flounder.

Going digital, also known as going paperless, is a huge adjustment for paper dependent people.

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