We returned here shortly after a one-week Family Summer visit. Why? To have lunch one more time before the new school year. It was kinda a joke/dream that came true. How? Being remarkably organized.
Therapy HQ means having a decently organized home structure and processes, like a business.
Being organized is mental therapy.
Without the high stress from being chronically disorganized, chronic and insidious overwhelm becomes far less intense.
Overwhelm isn’t eliminated, but significantly alleviated. So much so that normal, healthy living becomes the norm rather than an exception.
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You shun the urgent to focus on the important, non-urgent.
Chronic personal-organization improvement also foreshadows your life’s quality in the final decades.
Decades.
One, two, or even three decades of great home organizational habits compounding over time.
Congratulations.
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Cheryl submitted a request for Granite. Number 2,023 on request list. There are 12 rooms and a 70-night season. We will not get in.
Perfectly, at home, crazy.
When you are free to taste crazy at home, there is no turning back.
How crazy is that?
Pretty crazy.
Perfectly crazy.
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Old chemical injection system. It worked but tubing would consistently and randomly disconnect. No chlorine means untreated water.
New chemical injection system. The improvement is invisible beyond the color of the injection pump. The unseen improvements are a 1,000% improvement.Old filter (center).New filter (center).Home improvements 2021.
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My boss, Wayne Gagne, procured the Jungle Cruise hat from Wardrobe. Can’t recall why, but i offered to return it on the drive home. On the ride home, i drive past Magic Kingdom Wardrobe. Wayne does not.Now the hat makes sense with the leopard-print…befitting a Jungle Boat skipper.Stopped taking the elevator years ago. One final walk down the stairwell.While easy and natural to second guess yourself, it did not happen on this final stairwell trip down.Some of Jungle Jeff’s final steps while still “on the clock” during his final, Magical, day.
So what is such a great question and has unlimited applications.
So what? Was it worth it, all those years at Disney and Disney Institute?
H, e, double-hockey-sticks yes!
Knowing six years in advance i’d be retiring at 55 instead of 65 provided enormous opportunity to cherish and savor those final years in a glorious, yet private way.
Remember, i was the only one who knew. Cheryl knew of the intention, but couldn’t fully appreciate the commitment to it. It’s easy to change your mind when no one knows.
The final-five-year countdown was visible only to me.
In hindsight, now seven years into retirement (and running my own business, since 2009) it is unanimously the best work decision ever.
Best decision by an order of magnitude, whatever that means. It sounds big to a guy from the small Paper Mill town of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania.
From pulp dust to Pixie Dust.
Second star to the right. Straight on ’til morning.
To infinity and beyond!
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