Are You? – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Serve your future, home

Live, before you die. Airport banner in 2009.

Serve your future at home.

Blinding flash of the obvious, why wouldn’t i?

i’d be a fool not to.

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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.

Aging is cool, home

high school track runner — 1977, 200 meters, Spring Grove Area High School track. We competed at the middle school track. The original High School track was only 1/5-mile. And “cinders”. #iykyk

car window decal — The real adventure is creating personal vibrancy. Which implies aging gracefully, healthfully, spiritually, mentally, and letting go of “work”.

Aging.

Advantage or disadvantage?

As i blog, my energy and inspiration ebbs and flows.

My desire to leave a trail for our son never wavers.

Why?

Commitment.

To what?

To leaving a trail.

And now that i no longer “work for a living”, have new goals that i never had before.

i absolutely need to capture in writing this new life-stage.

Why?

If i don’t he’ll never have a first-hand (ring-side seat) take on what aging can be – if you dream of personal vibrancy.

Ps. Been dreaming about personal vibrancy since – i don’t know – maybe 1999?

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Let’s make “SYDK” a category, home

two people at mountain pass — Dear Son, your passion for card strategy games is remarkable. Loved that we got to play Dominion for three days at Sperry in 2025. Love that you got to experience Sperry for the first time in such a special way.

Dear Son, it has been fun thinking and writing about this stuff today.

Started writing today’s five posts a couple hours ago.

The first two posts flowed easily and quickly. Third post also easy, but focus started to fade as the morning progressed.

Why?

It’s Saturday and there are a few other things calling my name.

One of the biggest opportunities that’s creating dynamic tension in my vibrancy is letting go of work stuff and space.

In my head, the dumb idea to get the thought-party started is: “Could i clear office selves, drawers, and other spaces for your use?”

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Get busy living, home

Disney's Leadership Chain of Excellence — Disney’s Leadership Chain of Excellence makes perfect sense. Now, apply it to personal vibrancy: mind, body, spirit, work, home.

Dylan (Bob) said, “He who is not busy being born, is busy dying.”

Spring Break is a time for celebration and relaxation.

At some point if we’re lucky, we’ll have a personal reckoning.

Perhaps the proverbial midlife crisis.

Perhaps some other untimely crisis.

And if we’re exceptionally lucky, we’ll intentionally force these personal reckonings as we travel through life.

Why?

To proactively trust but verify that our life’s priorities are in ‘perfect-sense” order.

Much easier to manage a small fire than a forest fire.

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Memory a day, home

Sanibel sunrise years ago. Often, we are not positioned to see the sun directly. No worries. The sky is the academy award winning supporting actor.

Are you making a memory a day at home?

A memory a day with your priorities?

A memory a day for your final exit?

Well done, good and faithful servant.

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