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The Chicken Whisperer
One speaker highlighted The Chicken Whisperer’s story.

 

The thing about being organized to write five daily, differently-themed blog posts for 2,238 consecutive days is that it’s easy to start riffing and go on and on about something. When that happens, balance out the other posts that day with some…

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Unfortunately, people tell you what you want to hear

Work life balance Disney Speaker
Photo of MacBook while reading Facebook. In 30 years at Disney, never had a role model for balance.

 

In 30 incredible years i longed for a work-life balance role model. Never found one. Seriously.

How is that possible you ask?

Easy.

When you are a world class organization and one of the top ten most admired companies in the world, the public thinks it’s perfect on the inside.

PS. Necessity is the mother of invention. Disney’s work-life balance expert is now available for hire. Live live you mean it.

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Our only chance of thriving is to fight like hell

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Envy Labs Orlando
Envy Labs Orlando

 

Envy Labs Orlando robot mascot
Envy Labs Orlando robot mascot.

 

WordPress Core Team contributor David Laietta.
WordPress Core Team contributor David Laietta. Love his shirt.

 

WorldPress Orlando Meetup at Envy Labs
WorldPress Orlando Meetup at Envy Labs last night.

 

Twitter direct message
Chance meeting and connection at seminar.

 

Biggest roller coaster under construction on Orlando's International Drive
The Orlando Eye is under construction on International Drive.

 

This is one of five daily posts i write. Today’s other four posts are hiding something.

The issues and challenges that occur daily, endlessly.

Teaching a 14-year old to wire his brain to make every problem an opportunity or a challenge. And that bad things happen to everyone, all the time.

Our only chance of thriving is to fight like hell.

To get and stay in fighting shape: mentally, physically, spiritually, career-wise, and at our home base.

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Balance is the killer app

Disney Springs sign at Downtown Disney
Disney Springs sign at Downtown Disney Jan. 11, 2015.

 

Balance is the killer app.

But balance doesn’t exist. Right? That’s what we keep telling ourselves and each other.

We even joke about how elusive balance is.

What if it takes 50 years of never quitting to get it?

Unbalance feeds on itself.

So does balance.

Never saw that coming.

Ridiculously joyful in the blindside though.

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A literal non-negotiable

Orlando Disney Leadership Speakers

 

(photo: The American Way?)

Is being decently organized a pipe dream?

Is it impossible?

Here’s what it feels like to overcome this thinking:

There is something about preparing for the day, which in theory could be our last, long before dawn and watching the darkness change to light.

A bit like daily eating and bathing. A literal non-negotiable.

And as they say, ‘Every damn day.’

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