When Your Life Changes – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

We teach without a plan

yellow post it note with a turret flag drawing — Circa 2014: My Castle turret sketch for a graphic designer.

We teach without a plan.

How?

We teach with our behaviors.

Our behavioral habits demonstrate what we actually believe in.

The unspoken challenge (and unspoken opportunity) is to become self aware.

Self aware of our limited efforts to shed the unproductive things we do. The unproductive habits that develop over time because in the early stages, they brought us pleasure or eliminated pain. We welcomed that in those earlier days. And we will become what we repeatedly do, so those insidious mechanisms to create pleasure or to avoid pain are unconsciously who we are.

Everyone close to us knows it.

Our original plan to create pleasure or avoid pain are counter-productive to identifying our life’s priorities in a prioritized order.

A vicious cycle that quietly moves from generation to generation.

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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.

Zero expectations, home

Examining and reflecting on myself, i ask…

What expectations are needed at home (HQ)?

What HQ expectations are nice to have?

What HQ expectations are unnecessary?

What HQ expectations are harmful?

Thoughts control habits.

Habits control results.

Therefore thoughts control my results at home (HQ).

And what happens to my habits and results if i reduce or eliminate unnecessary and harmful HQ expectations?

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Just a photo, work

mountaintop fire watch tower — Swiftcurrent Firetower. Best view of Glacier and the easiest to access. And when i say easiest, the easiest from waking up at Granite Park Chalet. Otherwise, it’s hard.

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Beware of doubt

Beware of doubt.

Why?

Doubt has robbed me (and most) of pursuing alternatives to social norms.

Norms like closed-mindset.

Norms like a sedentary lifestyle, fueled with mostly processed foods.

Norms like being a Christian with our smile, but not with our heart.

Norms like sacrificing health and family for career ladder climbing.

Norms like living a life that’s architected by default, not by design.

Norms like thinking someone else is in charge of your life.

When was the last time you convinced yourself, “I’m the CEO of Me, Inc?”

Had a nice ring to it when i thought it up, and convinced myself, “Jeff, you are The CEO of You, Inc.”

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Make success easy, home

Make success at home easy.

Spend as many years as it takes to identify your life’s priorities.

Once you have a compelling list, prioritize it.

Create auto-pilot habits to ensure all your decisions use your prioritized-priorities filter.

Eliminate all habits founded on unprioritized priorities.

Why do this?

To live with personal vibrancy.

Note: Personal vibrancy does not meaning the absence of pain, suffering, regret, disease, etc. Personal vibrancy means in spite of never-ending challenges, you’ve built a house of stone, not sticks or straw.

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