When Your Life Changes – Page 5 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Be brave with yourself

8-second video: Nov 5, 2024.

7-second video: Midway through Election Day.

Changing “the” world starts with my world.

My world starts with me.

Never let what you cannot do stop you from what you can do.

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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.

Why does this matter, home

Prioritized priorities matter for an obvious reason.

Do you know why?

Can you see the difference in decisions being made with an hierarchical filter versus one that has no hierarchy?

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The need to grow, home

Three ski jump ramps in Lahti, Finland. — Never dreamed of being a Senior Olympian. Yet in 2009, here i was. Lahti, Finland. Representing Team USA at the 2009 Masters Track and Field World Championships.

two black frames with personal items — From the office wall where i blog most days, these two photos are a few feet away. Photo: My ‘racing bib’ from 2009 and a newspaper article photo from 1977.

My greatest “personal-life” growth opportunity surfaced while teaching Disney Institute (DI) business principles for 15 years.

Disney has, since 1955’s Disneyland opening, operated with four foundational Quality Standards.

They are, in alphabetical order:

Courtesy
Efficiency
Safety
Show

The key however is putting these in an operational priority order.

While teaching this nebulous business wisdom to outsiders, the time-tested DI curriculum never (literally never) rallied outsiders to work through the pain, and risk, that comes from committing to a ‘carved-in-stone’ holy-grail operational imperative.

To help solve this i created a heretofore undiscovered prioritization filter:

Non-negotiable
Famous-for
#1 Business-need

Watch how this becomes easy to put the four alphabetized quality standards into an operational-priority order.

Non-negotiable = Safety

Famous-for = Courtesy and Show (in that order)

#1 Business-need = Efficiency

This business wisdom is context neutral and can be applied in any domain. So, long ago i applied this (and still apply it) to create our family quality standards.

Note: Quality standards are simply a prioritized decision-making matrix. It’s applied by everyone, everywhere at Disney. Your work scope and department NEVER alters the order. Consistency is the hallmark of world-class organizations. This is how we do it at Disney. It’s also how i run my personal life. Safety, Service, Simplicity.

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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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