busy – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Nine clouds, ten clouds

Nine clouds, ten clouds?

How many did you notice?

Two days ago?

Last week?

How long do you watch them?

Why do you watch them?

Almost always, the clouds are moving.

i’ve found that random glances never reveal movement.

Stationary clouds are a fallacy.

Yet…

Stationary clouds, i think, are a stereotype that creates lifelong cloud-watching avoidance.

No two days worth of skies in our lifetime will be identical.

What a gift of never-ending variety, compliments of the Cosmos.

Ps. ‘Scuse me while i kiss the sky.

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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.

The work is never done

The work is never done.

Ever.

Until it is.

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Never ends, never will

Well, 2025 is almost over.

But not the endless blur of ‘the next thing in front of me’ (us).

Never ends.

Never will.

Unless…

You get your prioritized priorities in world-class shape.

Note: Even then, you can never let your guard down. Just because you reach your goal of prioritized priorities…doesn’t qualify you for lifetime autopilot. Life constantly throws unexpected curves. Aim for perfection, settle for excellence — you’ll need this when the unexpected storms hit.

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Priorities and Calendar gymnastics

Facebook post screenshot — Wow, roughly nine years ago in 2016.

empty Facebook friends list — Creative decision to not yet delete my Facebook account. Instead, i deleted (unfriended, but i like deleted better) all 27 Friends, all linked posts, and all comments on the posts remaining. These 27 people…we can text and call each other anytime. We’re family and a few lifetime friends from hometown and college. No Disney colleagues in this account, btw.

Calendar gymnastics is the phrase that inspired today’s posts.

i prefer prioritization gymnastics.

Since our priorities drive what’s on our calendar, it feels synonymous.

Perhaps calendar gymnastics’ original definition is “balancing and flexing all the stuff we want to do with all the stuff other’s want us to do”.

To me, the best way to do that is to be crystal clear on your prioritized priorities.

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Ending where we started

text thread screenshot — Text thread “jeff-riff” in it’s entirety.

In a busy, disorganized, unprioritized world, it’s easy to ignore or gloss over things.

Repetition is the mother of all learning.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Live before you die.

Happy present moment.

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