Leaving a trail for our son – Page 21 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Motivation is like a fire

3-second video: Fuel is the key to a good fire, to any fire.

Motivation is a superpower.
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i am motivated to live in constant gratitude.

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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.

Time well tasted

4-second video: Happy New Year ‘smores’.

An ancient campfire was the first iPhone.
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If we had enough wood that didn’t negatively impact our world, i could sit by a fire every single day.

Every.

Single.

Day.

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Amazing Grace in every day

Book and Pixar toys — Who knew Pixar felt compelled to craft a movie after my book? Never saw that coming.

Mid life celebration is a glorious life milestone. It changed everything for me.
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It took 30 years to write the first sentence. Two years to write the book. Then two more years to get the guts to publish it.

No where in my rational mind can i picture thinking to myself, “Give yourself 34 years to write your first book.”

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Functionality, plumbing, HVAC, electric, lighting

Couple posing by mountain lake — We spent hours here. And because of that, the shadow the clouds had cast on the entire lake and mountain side vanished to reveal an unexpected blue sky and stunning sunlight.

You change your world one day at a time. There is no other way.
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Improvement:

Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) is “Disney’s Six Sigma for Beginners”. You can’t improve what you don’t measure. Need diverse team of CIP Advocates to influence growth in their departments.

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Out of office alert at home

hotel website page — Got shut out at last year’s lottery. Yet somehow managed two multi-day reservations. A three-day in July i enjoyed before family arrived for annual trip. A four-night, season-closing res that we had to cancel due to eye surgery.

A healthy sense of urgency is the harvest for being fully present in the moment(s).
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Out of office alert at home…

Cultural attention to details.

Who owns it, maintains it, improves it?

Like, who’s personally graded for consistently excellent results?

It’s important to remember and easy to forget that the road to excellence has no finish line.

This exercise was for a tiny Galen detail that hundreds of people do hundreds of different ways.

And from the exercise, now hundred’s are doing it one way — The Galen Way.

Can you start to imaging the magnification and opportunity to creatively have fun addressing anything and everything that you do day in and day out — for your entire career.

The goal is always to have more employees, doing better things, more often.

Launch, learn, revise. Repeat.

It’s only impossible until you do it the first time.

Everything that is currently done the way it is done was once ‘never done that way’.

Organizational Creativity is the DNA of world-class organizations.

Nursing Education never turns down anyone with world class dreams.

Final note: OOO voice messages and OOO text messages need standards and expectations too.

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