When Your Life Changes – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Prioritizing is worship

Prioritizing is worship.

If worship and serving can be considered synonymous, then prioritizing your priorities is the best way to lead yourself.

Leading is serving.

Lead, and serve, yourself first.

Why?

The same reason on an airplane you put the oxygen mask on yourself first — so you can then help others more effectively.

Note: Prioritizing is one of life’s greatest insights. Prioritizing is also one of the least embraced life habits because we have few, if any, people in our life who’ve been taught the process. So there is little growth because there are so few teachers. The teacher is the one who walks the walk. Most everyone else habitually talks the talk. “Someday i’m gonna figure life out.”

“Someday” is a liar.

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Eye surgery followup, home

43-second video: Wearing my cataract surgery ‘sunglasses’. i’ve kept them since April for moments like today. Much better looking than the solar-shields you get at the retina office. But know that i am placing them over my eye-glasses, so it does look a bit senior-citizen redneck. And i’m down with that!

This morning was a great morning.

As i write this from the home office in late afternoon, we are an hour away from picking up our Def Leppard compadres for a dinner date at a local Italian restaurant.

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Waking up in your own bed, home

United airlines app screen — Upper left corner, 10:16am, 14 minutes from wheels up.

Everything you own that seems important to you is at your home.

Living away from that is a masterclass in stoic simplification.

i was probably between 55-60 years old when i first coined one on my favorite mantras…

Only pack what you can carry.

If it’s checked luggage, perhaps it’s too much.

Bonus: When i travel, my goal is one “kiddie-daypack”. If i need more stuff, i’ll take a second “kiddie-backpack”. The second one i wear across my chest. This process leaves me hands-free. Handsfree is an extraordinary way to travel.

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Sight or sips?

i enjoy eyesight more than happy hour. My happiest hours are seeing the world around me.
dad

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Retina scaring

retina photographs — Left is today. Right is one month ago. Worrisome is the retina “scarring” in the left photo.

You can’t plan for every adversity. But you can clear life’s runway for all types of landings.
dad

Remove non-essential habits, things, beliefs, people.

Here’s why.

You then make more room (perhaps all the room) for essential habits, things, beliefs, people.

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