Leaving a trail for our son – Page 34 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Grammy always said

Small apartment packed with packing boxes — Furnished apartment was full of furniture (of course), boxes, and an army of night-time roaches.

Shirtless man in a small apartment kitchen — Me spraying for roaches. Hopefully the baseboard, bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen spraying will help. It didn’t.

Two-story old apartment building — Lower, corner unit next to a busy cut-through road.

Four people standing outside a building — Cheryl’s Grammy and her cousin Michael paid us a visit shortly after we arrived. i think Cheryl’s parents sent Grammy to make sure Cheryl was ok and wasn’t in over her head with someone like me. lol

Two people posing at Epcot in front of a fountain and spaceship earth — Grammy and me at Epcot, September 1984. This was before selfies were invented. Someone actually held your camera and stepped back, then took the picture.

Cheryl’s Grammy always said, “Health is wealth.”

This is not an exaggeration, Grammy may be the most remarkable human being i have ever known. She lived to be almost 94 and she died in my arms.

Note: Cheryl and i flew home September 1989. i was in our best man’s wedding party and we stayed at Cheryl’s place until the wedding 60 miles away. Grammy passed before the wedding and we were conflicted about still attending Cort and Katie’s marriage. The answer was easy, Grammy would want us to go. So we did.

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Why are prioritized priorities important?

Jeff Noel's Colorful business card from 2009 — Everything matters. Nothing is optional, If Disney ran your life. First business card, 2009. Didn’t retire from Disney until 2014. Didn’t make a dime until after official Disney retirement.

Why are prioritized priorities important?

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The closer to death, home

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.

The closer to you get to death, the less you care what others think about the way you did or didn’t prioritize your key home-life priorities.

Why?

Because you’ll be dead soon and nothing will matter.

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Aggressively un-fancy

Lane 8 is the worst lane in the 400. The slowest runner gets it. You can’t see any of the other runners until they pass you. It’s the lane i want, and i don’t care if i come in last. In the finals. At the Olympics. You can be dead last yet be the eighth fastest human in the world.

Aggressively unfancy, to me, means you’ve spent so much time honing your life’s simple, key, repeatable messages that you’ve become them.

In the lifetime of reps you’ve done to discern, to pick, and to apply only the very best insights, your actions say everything without you needing to utter a word.

Your life is your message.

You only preach what you daily practice.

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