Rewards – Page 4 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Fix it when the sun shines

13-second video: Having fun (like i always do) at Disney University’s Stage Door Cafe.

twilight moon and planet — Last night. Watering some plants. Enjoying the last bit of light from a delightfully warm January 31st.

Long ago i knew i had to live next to palm trees and daily sunshine (warmth).

Note: Born and raised near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Intimately familiar with freezing-cold temperatures and long, drawn-out cloudy winters, lasting for what seemed to be six-months long.

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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.

Everyday dwelling

We think, we move, we feel, we contribute, we dwell.

Everyday prioritizing accumulates into a life.

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Imagine one Disney couple

two retired disney leaders — “Mickey and Minnie”. Felt like it sometimes. We share 66 combined years of Disney Service.

Imagine one couple.

Working a combined 66 years at the same company.

Now imagine if they had lived out the original plan for 80 combined years.

Crazy!

Right?

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Small talk, holiday version, home

Fruit bowl on kitchen counter — Tonight’s dinner is an untried Jambalaya recipe.

Pool patio — Second shortest day of the year, December 22.

Your world can open up beyond what you thought was (realistically) possible.

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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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