When Your Life Changes – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

2026 forecast for goodbyes

Forecasted goodbyes for 2026:

Goodbye to work

Note: Following goodbyes, there are planned ‘hellos’.

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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.

Making a budget

Making a budget used to be simple.

Do we have enough money at the end of the month?
Do we pay our credit card bill in full every month?
Do we auto-save money for the future?

Now…

Now it’s different.

Past few days i’ve been itemizing all our fixed and variable expenses.

Eye-opening.

Why change and refocus?

We are heading to a reduced, fixed income soon.

The goal?

Same three original goals, but without dual (or even single) professional job income. Zero jobs moving forward. Only pensions and Social Security. Exciting times.

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Interesting time in life, at home

bus with Advent Health ad — Care for every dreamer. Start with yourself.

Interesting time in life.

Lots of stuff (belongings) doesn’t matter.

While accumulating stuff over decades, you can’t see what’s coming.

Eventually, say in your 60’s, you see the truth.

Now what?

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Only you

Bob Iger with Jeff Noel from Disney Institute, circa 2005 — When you are part of a company, you follow orders. When you own the company, you call the shots.

It took me nearly six decades to realize that i should only being doing what only i can do.

It’s a common ‘leadership text book’ theory.

Yet until you are in charge of your fate, you’ll never know what it means.

i’m in a place where if i now get asked (by someone who’s paying me) to do something someone else can do, i have the rare option to offer them their money back.

Why?

Because i refuse to do something that others can do.

i recently renamed my line of work from Executive Coach to Executive Resource. Why?

Because i bring something to the table no one else brings. Disney experience, Disney wisdom, Disney insight and Disney mastery. This is my super-power. This is what i get paid for.

Note: Undoubtedly, with everything else, there’s someone far more expert than me.

Writing today’s blogs has been therapeutic and cathartic. Today’s blogs have also been strategic. They’ve reframed that i need to move from verbal explanations to a one-page (if possible) written summary. Why? To scale the onslaught of requests, from previous clients, for this type of work (resource).

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Addiction affects everyone

Who doesn’t love a funny person?

Laughter affects everyone, not just the person addicted to it.

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