He’s Just Nutty – Page 4 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Winter can be hot

Feet up on a stand as the sunsets — At 445pm (sunset is at 610pm) it’s hot enough to make me sweat. Sitting in a chair, shirtless, doing nothing but listening to the Doobie Brothers.

13-second video: Real life in real time.

Does this sound like bragging…

Sitting in the chair (above) deep into winter, and i’m sweating. Shirtless. An hour from sunset. How cool is that?

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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.

Are you present enough?

elementary school class photo — Montessori class. Eight years at this school. Was supposed to be one, Pre-K.

Happy present moment.

.hpm is a perfect salutation no matter the year, month, week, day, hour, or minute.

How cool is that?

i love this place!

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Fear of success?

If we lived life unafraid of death, what would change?

We don’t fear death as much as we fear something else.

We fear having to change into who we know we really want to be.

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Trust yourself

priority mail envelop — Yesterday, January 10, 2025. Third year in a row doing this. Doing what? Mailing in our annual homeowner’s dues through Priority Mail, including USPS tracking, and delivery confirmation. The mailbox is on our vacant homeowner’s lot and there’s no proven mailbox checking frequency. Additionally, i use a Cashier’s Check. If you don’t trust someone or something, you can over-focus on what you can control. Simple as that.

Began spending a lifetime in the wilderness, since my parents first let me leave the house without limits. Maybe 8-10 years old. However, there was one parent-imposed limit in the early years — NEVER cross the road. The road is Route 116 that runs past our subdivision to Spring Grove.

Early on i was mostly a lone explorer.

But i read everything i could about plants, animals, and wilderness-danger preparation and avoidance.

Fast forward to today, add on 400 days of hiking inside Glacier National Park (GNP).

No one recommends solo hiking inside GNP. However, several years i was there alone.

Hiking like i mean it. Alone. In the wild. No cell signal. No people. Late season as Grizzly Bears engage in hyperphasia.

Steep cliffs. Unpredictable weather. With just a “kiddie” day pack for essentials. A kiddie daypack offers better comfort, but also less room for essentials. The ultimate test for “only carrying what is absolutely necessary”.

Then the rest comes down to this, trust yourself, your experience, your knowledge, your abilities, your preparedness.

Insight worth noting: You prepare for worst case scenario. Because if it happens and you planned intentionally, you can manage through adversity. If caught without an essential, you could die.

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A microphone that works

residential front screen door — End of year holiday decorations always exceed the first 10 months decorations.

Which would you rather have?

A microphone that’s always on and easily available?

Or a microphone that when used is heard by everyone you want to hear your message.

i follow a decent number of incredibly talented and smart subject matter experts on LinkedIn.

i consider myself lucky to pay attention to what they say.

The challenge for them (and me) is having an audience that cares about your subject matter expertise.

Most don’t.

Ps. And, your “followers” are probably not people who can write checks.

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