Category: Leaving a trail for our son

All my personal posts 2008-2016.

Clock or compass?

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Trying to finish today’s posts. Top pink banner message: just now a new error message is entering the mix.
woman making sandwiches in mountain setting
My photo library is full of reminders. Reminders about how lucky i am. Photo: A few years ago, making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before an (another) epic hike.

Haven’t worn a watch since 1995.

Stopped wearing one (30 years ago) to remind me daily that where i’m going is more important than how fast i’m getting there.

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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.

Endangered species, personal details

(Also) Long ago, i stopped revealing my actual birthday on social media forms. Why? It’s an important piece of personal information. And it’s easily harvested.

Everyone knows where you live thanks to the Internet. And Google Earth lets everyone look in your back yard. And you can look in theirs.

The best we can do in today’s world is throw a few curves.

Happy present moment.

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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.

Priorities and Calendar gymnastics

Facebook post screenshot
Wow, roughly nine years ago in 2016.
empty Facebook friends list
Creative decision to not yet delete my Facebook account. Instead, i deleted (unfriended, but i like deleted better) all 27 Friends, all linked posts, and all comments on the posts remaining. These 27 people…we can text and call each other anytime. We’re family and a few lifetime friends from hometown and college. No Disney colleagues in this account, btw.

Calendar gymnastics is the phrase that inspired today’s posts.

i prefer prioritization gymnastics.

Since our priorities drive what’s on our calendar, it feels synonymous.

Perhaps calendar gymnastics’ original definition is “balancing and flexing all the stuff we want to do with all the stuff other’s want us to do”.

To me, the best way to do that is to be crystal clear on your prioritized priorities.

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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.

When people say, home

Industrial sized dumpster on a residential street
i would never dare put my industrial sized dumpster partially on my neighbors property when i have so much road frontage.
6-second video: First day back after four days in Nebraska’s polar vortex. Note: To tell a story in my keynote, i use a slide of Cheryl, me, and Captain Hook. Sent this to the amazing client who booked me.

When people say… 

With everything that’s coming at us (etc) it’s time to really focus on our priorities. Priorities have never been more important.

Never?

Ever?

May i just ask, “Are you serious?”

What do they mean “it’s time”?

Hasn’t it always been time?

Always.

Like always.

Seriously.

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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.

i’m going to Walt Disney World, home

10-second video: Happy present moment at 3:39 PM. Heading to WDW.
10-second video: Snow in Atlanta at 5PM? Yep.

If i wasn’t a Disney Customer Service keynote speaker, i’d still be doin this.

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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.