Rewards – Page 4 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Time on my home

Woman in room with flipcharts — Photo 2005. Alicia, pictured here, and i were together on September 11, 2001. We were delivering a four-day Disney Institute program then. Pictured here in 2005, Alicia was helping facilitate a new leader transition for Leslie Campbell (i think). “New Leader Transition” is when a new leader communicates their style and asks for the team’s (each individual) style. Below, highlighted in red, is a snapshot into “Jeff-Land”.

Flipcart handwritten notes — Photo: 2005 internal leadership session. My public declaration for how i like to be “recognized”: “Freedom, Flexibility, and Development”. Fun to reminisce.

The interesting thing about your home is a fascinating paradox.

The bigger your living space, the more you have to take care of.

As you age, you have to decide where you want to spend time and money.

The less you have, the less you have to take care of.

Same goes for your your home’s “lot”.

Our “lot” is big.

And…

i’ve been intentionally architecting a low-maintenance “big-lot” design. Most of our big yard will not need tending to. It’s a work in progress.

Been intentionally, by design, working on it for a few decades. And in the past four years, an accelerated perimeter barrier and buffer. A wilderness landscape requiring no maintenance.

i love envisioning a future that’s not only better than now but much better than now.

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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.

Shedding’s superpower

Apple photos app screen shot — Upper left. There’s a six-digit number under the word “Library”. That number compiles everything past 2013.

Shedding creates fearful feelings.

Shedding is permission.

Shedding is freedom.

On the shedding menu are:

Fear
Regret
Freedom
Joy
Vibrancy

This was a fun thread to write today.

Note: The new-age challenge with digital is that the storage space is invisible. There are 200,000 photos/videos on my phone. If they were physical photos and movie reels, i’d be a clear contender for hoarder of the year.

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Try to keep up

pelicans flying — First pelican sighting.

ocean shoreline — Mooloolaba Surf Club is a block from us.

bird photo and stats — The Kookaburra is the signature sound you hear in jungle movies. We’ve heard it several times over eight weeks. We have yet to see one though.

Doing what you love and living within your means is not the only goal.

Mental, physical, and spiritual vibrancy should accompany artistic passion and prioritized stability.

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Island time

3 adults posing at beach — Late lunch. Early afternoon Pacific Ocean stroll.

two people walking on beach — Pacific Ocean with two Floridians. By the way, it’s winter here.

green leaf closeup — Big leaf. Intricate circulatory system.

It’s common for many to think a life of career sacrifices leads to a payoff in retirement.

Equally important to remember that work sacrifices (always) ripple into home sacrifices.

It is helpful to think and write to myself about this concept.

Why?

Because yesterday it was easy to feel guilt. My private thoughts, if expressed publicly, would sound like gloating. i am not a gloater, yet my private reflections felt boastful.

We have been here over two weeks and have revisited all the places and things we enjoyed most from our five-week trip six months ago.

So this final week we are reflecting more seriously about all the things we get to do here. We know we will likely never return. Australia’s Sun Coast is nice, yet it isn’t much different than Central Florida.

Therefore, i close today’s writing knowing that we (me and Cheryl) have earned this time to do what we want, when we want, and not feel guilt.

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Eleven, home

Sidewalk art — Lake Lure Flowering Bridge.

17-second video: Heading home from downtown. Mountain-side style.

John drives mountain roads like he’s been doing it for three decades.

Why?

Because he has been.

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