creativity – Page 12 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Discomfort zone

Denver football stadium — Denver. Attending a conference. Out for a run.

Leaning into discomfort must become a habit. Make being uncomfortable your comfort zone.

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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.

Paint like you mean it

small boy with holding teddy bear with dog sitting nearby — Sanibel Island, 2004-ish.

Paint a picture of the future that’s not only better than now, but much better than now. Describe, succinctly, how reading your book benefits her or him.

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Prepare for takeoff

As book two prepares for takeoff, there are now 12 years and 22,000+ blog posts under my belt. Write like you mean it if you want to be a writer.

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Looked like failure

Disney Institute Speaker Jeff Noel — 2005-ish.

JB’s departure from Mid Life Celebration, the book, felt like failure. The saving Grace is we had crafted enough of the storyboard that i eventually finished polishing it into everything needed to begin writing. While it took 34 years from start to finish, the writing took only two weeks.

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Worry less

Disney Podcast Jeff Noel — Podcasting can become an audio trail, to compliment or expand a book’s message.

Once you publish you first book, you learn what not to worry about on your second book. Just worry about writing.
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