A Summer of Questions – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Smiling Jesus, home

What makes Jesus smile?

Gotta say, this is beyond my understanding.

But if pressed to share some ideas…

Self-awareness…

Patience…

Fidelity…

Joy…

Children…

Caring…

And so on and so forth…

Probably all the things that make humans smile.

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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.

July 1, 2026, home

smiling Jesus painting in a gift shop — My recent first ever discovery of a smiling Jesus. Beyond surprised. Overwhelmed. Delighted. Ecstatic.

What’s one thing that’s surprised you about summer 2026?

While not technically ‘surprised’, being a couple months into a fixed-income lifestyle is not negatively denting our normal lifestyle so far.

Delightfully surprised.

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Wildcard day, home

Garden state parkway sign — A segue to tomorrow’s posts? Maybe.

What’s a blogging challenge few, if any, know about?

Finding photos and videos to support the written content, five times a day.

Bonus unknown challenge: Knowing when to stop prolific blogging?

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Blogging memories day 7, home

Disney Institute facilitators — From years ago, in 2014, on a trip with fellow Disney Institute colleagues. Walt said, “Laughter is no enemy to learning.”

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

Having fun.

Fun in quietly practicing everything we preached at Disney Institute.

Which eventually led to me coining…

“Only preach what you practice.”

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Blogging memories day 6, home

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

An important memory, and an important question from these two questions:

What will you write about?
What will you speak about after you retire?

Yes, here is one more question from the above two:

Q. How will i scale writing and speaking in a simple, practical, fun, and hopefully compelling way?

A. For starters, reveal to the world the secret recipe for balance: the deep, broad, and obvious interconnectedness between mind, body, spirit, work, and home.

Why?

Because most humans, including myself, believe it’s a balance between only two things: work life and home life.

My discovery, after chasing balance for four decades, is balance is built from life’s five big choices.

Tomorrow, i’ll share a blinding flash of the obvious, creative writing framework.

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