Dear Son – Page 5 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Change what you see

Change what you think is supposed to happen as you age.

Floss daily to increase the odds your senior smile contains original equipment (teeth).

Now apply this to every single aspect of your life. It’s called over-focusing on the same things others under-focus on or ignore.

Be an example, not a warning.

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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.

What if at home

Disney speaker jeffnoel and Mickey Mouse mask at motel sign — In 2020, spent 50 days in the simplest of motel rooms. On the coldest days, wore all eight upper layers and all three lower layers. Merino wool garments can go roughly two weeks between washings.

At home you have no room for disorganization, neglect, complexity.
dad

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Personal stories

Walt Disney quote about innovation — Blinding flash of the obvious, eh?

May I speak with Jeff? Speaking. Jeff, I need to set up your lunch meeting with Steve Heise the Disney Institute Director. Lunch meeting? Steve Heise? Disney Institute? You’ve got the wrong Jeff…(and the rest, as they say, is history).
dad

Critical distinction: Using stories is a common tool. However, using personal stories is rare. Curators, pontificators, and copycats can be quite skilled at telling someone else’s story. Think Simon Sinek. Who wants to hear about the front lines of poverty eradication from an historian? Who wants to hear from someone who felt the physical pangs and emotional anguish from looking starvation in the eyes and from being a starving adult with starving children?

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Disney Speaker reality check

Bob Iger — Influenced by the 2nd and 3rd longest running Disney CEO’s, after Walt Disney. Artistry runs in our DNA, even in how we run our business from the top.

In reality, after four years as a Disney Keynote Speaker, had finally reached the starting line. Had totally underestimated my incompetence. And what happened in the next 11 years at Disney Institute was gradual, artistic Magic.
dad

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Competent incompetent

Walt Disney World Resort construction photo — Disney’s Contemporary Resort rooms were built a few miles away, then driven to the site and slid into the Contemporary’s A-frame.

A competent-incompetent knows how much they do not know. In 1999, was fully aware i knew zero about public speaking.
dad

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