Blog – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Soar with your strengths

split tail kite — While watering trees, got graced with this ‘show’.

The sky is one of my favorite streaming services.
dad

Son, remember, i was 40 years old when a random Disney work phone call transformed my life.

i’ve always had focus, discipline, and a wild imagination.

And for four decades, those strengths were applied to all my jobs.

But when your strengths combine with the right job – the job you were born for – magic happens.

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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.

Home mediocrity

Motel small bathroom and shower — Compared to our master bathroom at home this is tiny. Compared to a stream in the forest this is the Ritz Carlton.

It can wait until tomorrow.
Mediocrates

Home mediocrity flourishes if we never discover our purpose. Or, when we slowly get bored with our purpose and drift away, uncaringly.

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What the world needs from humanity

Funny teacher — Halifax Airport gift shop, 7:30 AM,

You owe humanity decency.
dad

What the world needs from humanity is different from what the universe needs from humanity.

Why?

Because the Universe needs nothing from humans.

Nothing.

Zero.

Zip.

0.00

But the “world” needs something from humanity, and that is a sense of humor.

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Astonishing Paradox

Hotel room window with a chair — Final look at my Wolfville, Nova Scotia office.

Brick building — All the top floor wall is my apartment. Photo taken from outdoor deck.

Red chair on porch — Enjoying a frozen pizza fresh out of the apartment oven. Then the cheering and screaming ensued.

Paradox fascinates me.
dad

The opposite of dogma and tradition.

The opposite of familiar and popular.

The opposite of comfortable and safe.

The opposite of logical and better. Or is it?

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Keynote notes

post-it note notes — This is, verbatim, what i will ask everyone to write down or type into their phone.

canada t-shirt — Texted this photo to Jody Maberry and Tim Dyck.

Be brilliant at the basics.
dad

Life only becomes complicated when we ignore the basics.

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