Leaving a trail for our son – Page 6 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

You can’t own this

Social media quote — The truth hurts. The truth also grants freedom.

I wanna live a life, live a life,
like a dollar and the clock on the wall don’t own me.
Tim McGraw song lyric

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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.

Burn it

Tuition screen — Disney Institute 3.5 day tuition ($5.5k). Add airfare, hotel, ground transportation and meals. Easily a $7k per person cost plus time away from work.

Burn the ships.
Herman Cortes,1519

This article says Cortes destroyed the ships, but not by burning them.

So the quote above seems more myth and legend than actual.

Doesn’t matter, the concept is easy to understand.

Make retreat impossible so everyone is crystal clear, die or win.

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i love doing what i love

Laptop — Just finished our taxes. Earliest in a long time. Feels amazing.

You work hard, but you live confused.
dad

Sound familiar…

You are a master at running your business.

You are a beginner at enjoying life.

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A simple life lavishes

Mountains — Photo: Steve or Stacy Wahlberg. Such a cool angle. So insanely remote and high.

A simple life doesn’t impoverish, it lavishes.
dad

A simple life doesn’t impoverish, it lavishes.

Optimism.

Health.

Peace.

Art.

Vibrancy.

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Tell PwC time-off story on DI schedule

cabin bedroom — Simple blessings are habitually taken for granted. Life far outside your comfort zone brings simple blessings into focus.

Lack of conveniences reveals life’s fundamental blessings. Shelter, love, health.
dad

We knew the ‘exact day’ our son was to be born.

It was in the middle of Disney Institute’s (DI) annual busiest three weeks the year.

And i was the newest person on the DI team.

Don’t even think about asking for vacation time.

Imagine my surprise when i was listed as a ‘floater’ on the DI schedule during those three weeks.

And sure enough, the first week of ‘all hands on deck‘ — nearly three weeks early — our son decides to call an audible.

Having my boss at the time, Tom Madden, ensure, without me asking, that i’d not have to worry about being there for our son’s birth is the greatest Disney recognition i ever received. Greater even than the two Disney Lifetime Achievement awards.

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