Uncommon Sense – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Before one of us starts to forget, home

Before one of us starts forgetting, i’d like to start remembering…

Our first wondering about ‘what if’.
Our first apartments (Stephenson North and Scott-Coman) at Washington State University.
Our first Summer (1982) in Florida at Sun Club Apartments.
Our first year (Aug 1984-Aug 1985) in Florida, also at Sun Club.
Our first ‘starter home’ in Poinciana, with zero furniture.
Our first sleeper sofa in Poinciana, our first furniture purchase.
Our first Yellow Lab, Luther.
Our first hurricane.
Our first mortgage.
Our first Disney fireworks from our master bathroom.
Our first 401k auto-payroll-deduction.
Our first fire in our fireplace.
Our first year as parents.
Our first Honda Van.
Our first swimming pool.
Our first High School graduation as parents.
Our first College graduation(s) as parents: UniSC & Goucher.
Our first social security check.

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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.

Not easy and not hard, home

Important stuff, like running a home, for a lifetime.

Important stuff like establishing life priorities.

Important stuff like prioritizing those priorities.

Most stuff in life is not easy.

Most stuff in life is also not hard.

Paradox.

Great news, if you believe it.

Greater news if you use the wisdom.

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Planned freedom, home

mountains and small glacier — From Oberlin looking at Gunsight Mountain and Sperry Glacier.

At home.

The planned freedom you surround yourself with.

How much agency do you have?

How much agency does your family have?

How much freedom to think, move, feel, contribute, and prioritize?

Satisfied?

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Teach hope, home

mountains and lake — Same place, slightly different look. This look is always on a spectrum: from modestly-dramatic to super-dramatic.

Teach hope at home…

Help others hope that they can discern their priorities.

Note: Priorities are a nebulous, under-rated, under-focused on, and remarkably neglected concept.

Show with your life’s example that getting this right leads to personal vibrancy.

Help others take one more defining step…

Prioritize the priorities.

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Harvest hope, home

old motel room — Spent 50 days and nights here in 2020. Now it’s Pursuit employee housing. Formerly known as West Glacier Motel. During Covid-19 (2020), Glacier’s entire 500,000-acre East side was closed to visitors.

Hope spawned from the goal (hope) of taking our son, 12, to Glacier for the first time in 2012.

Why?

Imprint something opposite from ‘all he knows…’.

He grew up every summer spending a week on Sanibel Island. Even before he turned one year old.

Palm trees and sunshine.

Flat.

Hot.

Sea-level.

The first year carried the hope he’d want to return a second time.

Why?

Simply to experience the paradox of Florida beaches…

Mountains.

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