Carving Out A Life – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Do you remember?

What?

i can remember when i wanted what i presently have.

So grateful to have all the things that used to be missing or hoped for.

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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.

Grammy always said

Small apartment packed with packing boxes — Furnished apartment was full of furniture (of course), boxes, and an army of night-time roaches.

Shirtless man in a small apartment kitchen — Me spraying for roaches. Hopefully the baseboard, bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen spraying will help. It didn’t.

Two-story old apartment building — Lower, corner unit next to a busy cut-through road.

Four people standing outside a building — Cheryl’s Grammy and her cousin Michael paid us a visit shortly after we arrived. i think Cheryl’s parents sent Grammy to make sure Cheryl was ok and wasn’t in over her head with someone like me. lol

Two people posing at Epcot in front of a fountain and spaceship earth — Grammy and me at Epcot, September 1984. This was before selfies were invented. Someone actually held your camera and stepped back, then took the picture.

Cheryl’s Grammy always said, “Health is wealth.”

This is not an exaggeration, Grammy may be the most remarkable human being i have ever known. She lived to be almost 94 and she died in my arms.

Note: Cheryl and i flew home September 1989. i was in our best man’s wedding party and we stayed at Cheryl’s place until the wedding 60 miles away. Grammy passed before the wedding and we were conflicted about still attending Cort and Katie’s marriage. The answer was easy, Grammy would want us to go. So we did.

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Only so many, home

There are only so many things you can do especially well.

Only so many thoughts that summarize the whole home-life volume.

For example: Having priorities but not knowing their priority is bad. Work is a priority over health? Your retired-life is (probably) proof of that.

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Never ends, never will

Well, 2025 is almost over.

But not the endless blur of ‘the next thing in front of me’ (us).

Never ends.

Never will.

Unless…

You get your prioritized priorities in world-class shape.

Note: Even then, you can never let your guard down. Just because you reach your goal of prioritized priorities…doesn’t qualify you for lifetime autopilot. Life constantly throws unexpected curves. Aim for perfection, settle for excellence — you’ll need this when the unexpected storms hit.

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