Finland, 2009. These are so much higher than they look in this photo.
Prioritize what you want to prioritize.
To each their own.
Don’t worry about what others think about your priorities.
They don’t worry about what you think of theirs.
People care less than we think they do. We can even go as far as saying they spend zero time worrying about how you run your life.
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A decade ago. Said a few ‘official’ farewells before walking down this stairwell to drive (home) to Magic Kingdom Wardrobe to turn in the Walt Disney Walt Jungle Cruise hat.
Let people prioritize the way they want to prioritize.
Prioritize as much or as little as suits you.
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Bonus goodie: If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
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When you change what you see, what you see changes.
Change your priorities order, change what you see.
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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.
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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