Leaving a trail for our son – Page 38 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Cruel, glorious world

5-second video: Final 1883 episode. Superb. It ain’t for everyone. In my opinion, it’s for people who are living now, not waiting for later to start living.

5-second video: Simple pleasures as you walk around your yard.

There’s only one time it’s okay to lie. If someone’s life depends on it.
dad

Son, humans crave honesty.

The paradox, similar to the extra mile vs the extra inch…or midlife crisis vs midlife celebration, is this:

Humans crave honesty but…

Humans aren’t honest.

Nor do humans want the truth.

Why?

The truth hurts.

No one wants to hurt another, nor do they want to be hurt.

The truth can set you free.

This is truth’s purpose – freedom.

Freedom scares the crap out of people.

Why?

Because every decision, every effort, every result – you’re on the hook for it.

Most people are too weak to be strong enough to break free.

i know this simply because i’ve lived it.

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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.

Your home life brand

Tim McGra Ticket order — Saw Tim in the late 1990’s.

Humble Servant.
dad

The above quote is my vision in life. It’s what i strive to be. Every day. All day.

Vision is what you want ‘to be’.

Mission is what you need ‘to do’.

Brand is what you want others (and yourself) ‘to feel’.

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Post Op Day 22, home

21-second video: Perspective on where we’ve come from. And before this house, we were on a $7,500 lot and a $39,000 starter house. True story. Felt like we hit the lottery. Both making minimum Disney wage. One car and one bicycle. Thirty-miles one way to work.

Autopilot can be transformational and glorious.
dad

Habits drive results.

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Post Op Day 21, home

We judge ourselves on our intentions. Others judge us on our behaviors.
dad (Disney Institute)

A client sent the video. Didn’t mention that yesterday. This video reminded them of me.

Today, reflecting, it stimulates thinking about the message from an organizational vibrancy angle instead of the obvious personal vibrancy.

Think about that for a moment.

Imagine intentional things an organization could (and should) do, but doesn’t. Much like the lone human being depicted in two scenarios: intentional and unintentional.

People, and entire organizations, reap what they sow.

The damning habit they both have is thinking today won’t make a remarkable difference to their futures.

Or conversely, the remarkable habit that every company has available: over-focusing on the same things other companies under-focus on or ignore.

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Post Op Day 20, home

Reaping what you sow seems irrefutable. There are rare exceptions. Plan on not being one.
dad

Floating in the pool.

5:36 PM

Writing this fifth and final blog for today, October 5, 2023.

Tomorrow our Son starts his day at Celebration Health Hospital’s infusion center.

Mine starts at Central Florida Retina Specialists.

The next day we dine at our family-favorite Disney restaurant. And we are joined by our Son’s three best friends in the world.

Happy present moment.

Be an example not a warning.

How long have i been saying that?

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