Category: Completely Different?

You can observe a lot from one little trick

Parking lot numbers
Yesterday at Windermere Prep.

 

Parking lot numbers
Walking towards the track yesterday morning.

 

You can observe a lot from one little trick:

Paying attention.

In a random moment walking through a High School parking lot yesterday morning, a Sunday, the (empty) parking lot numbers caught my eye.

The first photo has gotten me to today, age 56.

The second photo represents a deadline that’s tempting to forget.

No male on my Dad’s side has lived past 60.

What motivates you and does it still light your fire?

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Seemingly insignificant isn’t

Peanut butter, bread and honey
Home made room service last night.

 

With crazy traffic, going to dinner was nullified. Room service would have run us $100.

What to do?

Use the old realiable, peanut butter and honey sandwiches.

The glamour of world class DNA from a lifetime at Disney.

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All you need is one percent more to have final say

Disney, Best, Leadership, Speaker
Photo: David Smith: Last week giving a speech in Ft Lauderdale, Florida.

 

Be organized enough to know this and deliver on it.

Is there any currency more valuable than time?

All those books that use short cuts and secrets to lure you into buying them.

How have they served you?

The long way is the short cut.

Since retiring from Disney, my “get to do” versus “have to do” percentage has moved from:

51/49 to 95/5

Stunning.

If you ever have a business partner, never go 50/50.

When you disagree, there’s no tie-breaker, there’s stale mate.

But all you need to have controlling interest, and critical decision making authority, is 51%.

Same in life.

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