Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker
One million+ people globally while at Disney Institute.
(photo: David Laietta delivering opening remarks at yesterday’s 2014 Orlando WordPress Word Camp)
Exceed our expectations by delightfully surprising us. It doesn’t take much.
But it must be intentional.
Great speakers are intentional.
The same way great coders are.
What happens when a coder becomes the speaker?
The two are not mutually exclusive.
What a great opportunity for next year.
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(photo: Sand and snow can look the same, yet are drastically different. When you can touch it, taste, it, smell it… everything changes.)
The biggest reason we struggle with getting and staying decently organized is that we cannot see ourselves living a different way.
Well, we can see it, but not clearly enough that we can touch it, taste it, smell it, hear it.
Not mapping out our future state is actually mapping out our future state.
Think about it.
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(photo: Final photo at Office Depot last night.)
You can’t wake up one day and decide to be a writer. You must write, for years, and then decide if you will continue as a writer.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Steady.
And slow.
Maybe Definitely years to rewire our brains and fix our processes and priorities.
Be an example, not a warning.
PS. Yes, it’s hard as hell, and takes forever. The time and the struggle will pass anyway. So why not do it?
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(photo: The final day of Disney Outlook calendar access is lower right. The final month, upper left.)
One of the biggest tasks before retirement was organizing all the personal files from 30 years of service.
Many of those files now digital.
To help process the reality of this life altering choice, every calendar entry and every contact was deleted.
It’s the same process we go through when we buy a new cell phone – erase all the data off the old device.
But in this case, there’s no iCloud backup.
Thank goodness this day had been six years in the making.
Today is day 33 of retirement. Busy as ever. Who would have thought time would still feel limited?
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(photo: The American Way?)
Is being decently organized a pipe dream?
Is it impossible?
Here’s what it feels like to overcome this thinking:
There is something about preparing for the day, which in theory could be our last, long before dawn and watching the darkness change to light.
A bit like daily eating and bathing. A literal non-negotiable.
And as they say, ‘Every damn day.’
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