Blog Stuff – Page 3 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Back to the future

Disney keynote speaker Jeff Noel and event MC — On my own, have always wanted to speak in jeans and a t-shirt. As a first step, did it in the final two minutes of the Keynote. The speech concluded with the audience blessing themselves with a standing ovation.

“Back to the future.”

That’s what creative writing often feels like.

Currently sitting on 1,000+ scheduled blog posts across all five Mid Life Celebration websites.

The original multi-month surplus took a slow, steady, unintentional 13-year climb. The past three months has seen a writer’s flood at unprecedented levels. New territory. Exciting. Fun. Humbling.

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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.

Photos slow you down

Disney Keynote speaker Jeff Noel in Finland — Finland, Summer 2009. Four months after beginning that fateful April Fools Day writing bootcamp challenge.

Photos slow you down.

Writing is the easy part.

Searching for a decently-themed photo is time consuming. Both from selecting to the administrative blogging functions required to load and format each image.

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Ever write 50 blog posts in one day?

WordPress admin panel — This is from a single Blog website. There are five Blogs/websites. Yes, we are talking 25,000 blog posts, easy.

Ever write 50 blog posts in one day?

Yep.

When was the last time?

Two days ago.

Note: In the past three weeks the daily blog post writing average is roughly 15-30 posts per day.

After 13 years of prolific writing, still suffering (thriving) from writer’s flood.

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Blogging is a scared obligation

weird saying — Here’s what if…if this was true, we wouldn’t have so many personal and societal challenges.

Blogging is a scared obligation.

What?

Just like running a prioritized, intentional, over-focused home is a scared obligation, so too is daily blogging.

To a casual observer, this is ludicrous.

To a casual observer, life passes by fast, often (literally always) leading to regret.

Over the 13-year arc from 24,000 published (so far) blog posts, ‘regret sucks’ is a common theme.

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First day grade

This 7-second video receives an A.

First-day grade for writing differently?

Solid C.

There were no burdens, there were no epiphanies.

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