Leaving a trail for our son – Page 18 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Commitment

Commitment.

Commitment to your prioritized priorities.

Commitment means making the honeymoon promises last a lifetime.

Commitment means doing the reps to prioritize your priorities. This may take some time, creativity, experimentation, reflection, mistakes, and eventually, conviction.

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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.

Prioritization

colorful business card — Starting my own business in 2008 was the first time i identified a life-priorities short list. In 2009, i prioritized the priority order.

Prioritization.

An hierarchical order.

Based on importance.

Having priorities is good.

Having your priorities prioritized is great.

Note: Had i not become a Disney Institute teacher and a brand new parent at the turn of the century, i would still be oblivious to the power of an hierarchical priority order. Changing careers and changing my life’s focus simultaneously changed the way i thought about personal priorities.

Bonus note: Pre-parenting focus was inward on self. Parent focus was outward on child. Never knew the contrast. When John 3:16 finally became tangible, my life changed, starting with putting my priorities in an hierarchical order. Daily teaching of our Disney Quality Standards (Safety, Courtesy, Show, Efficiency) at Disney Institute was a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious). When you know the prioritized order, you can easily see what’s most important in any given situation, especially the most critical and urgent situations.

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Reflection

Mid Life Celebration book — Reflection enabled me to see past the stereotypical midlife crisis. Reflection is a self-love habit. Your potential vibrancy depends on it.

Reflection.

Pausing.

Thinking.

Learning.

Learning is the gift we receive from reflection.

Reflection is under-focused on, or ignored, by many.

Why?

Time.

As in not enough time to pause.

This becomes habitual.

This is what leads to personal and organizational crisis.

Reflection is a superpower.

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Learning

Learning.

We learn by observing and thinking.

Find a million ways to observe and think.

This is learning’s key.

Broad, deep, constant.

We can only use what we know.

Know as much as you can on what personal vibrancy means to you.

Then continuously act on your knowledge. And continually learn.

Note: Two of life’s five big choices (pillars), Mind and Home, start the same. Observing, thinking, learning. Also, they both share similar personal vibrancy DNA because both revolve around ideas as the conduit to success.

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