HOA – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

How many hours can you afford?

Disney podcaster Jeff Noel in the mountains — Jody and me sitting next to Swiftcurrent Glacier. It’s massive and we can literally reach over and touch it. From this perspective, you’d never in a million years know about the massive Glacier, unless you trusted me to be telling you the truth. Or you can ask Jody, he took this photo and that’s his microphone.

If you don’t presently have a legal-fee line item budget in your Homeowner’s Association (HOA) financial statement, what’s your plan if you get sued for an accident?

How many hours of legal counsel can you afford?

Said another way, make sure you have personal financial resources to weather an unexpected legal nightmare.

Remember, there’s a reason things are called accidents.

There’s a reason things are called liabilities.

Obvious solution?

Most likely.

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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.

Turning the home page

gas purchase price at pump — Personally, in 2021 around town in my car, i drove 1,500 miles. Roughly 125 miles per month. Walked, jogged or bicycled to whatever needed.

Turning the home page.

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Pretend you’re new – reprise

jet fighter — Ukraine is not new. War is not new. Where do we go from here?

Pretend you’re new – reprise:

Your 40-year old neighborhood is moving into it’s next phase.

This phase represents what happens when you (meaning your town, city, State) become famous. Everyone wants a piece of the special goodness you discovered decades before the masses.

Our Publix grocery store is reputed to be the busiest in Florida.

Every cashier i ask estimates no less than half the grocery shoppers are tourists.

There are thousands of homes in every style and category within a five-mile radius.

It’s like living across the street from Disneyland’s property. If you’ve ever stayed in the Disneyland Hotel with a high room and a balcony facing West, you see the adjacent residential neighborhoods. Can you imagine?

Yes.

Why?

Because we live less than one mile from Walt Disney World.

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Pretend you’re new

Disney Cast Member Service Awards on a desk — We are so glad to be all moved in. We love living in a safe, private, respectful, well run location.

Pretend you’re new to your neighborhood.

Behave like a busy professional couple who, like nearly every other household on the street – on all the streets – is too busy to know who their neighbors are.

This is perfect.

Keep to yourself.

Don’t get involved in any neighborhood drama.

Trust no one?

Pretty close.

What say ye?

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Thumbs up

Disney diaper changing station — Outsiders will never think like insiders. Only Disney is going to over-focus on the same things others under-focus on or ignore. Four rolls of toilet paper at the diaper changing station? Absolutely.

Thumbs up.

That’s what i present when someone cuts me off or nearly causes an accident. That and a prayer for the driver.

Used to offer the center finger. And no prayer. Ever.

Becoming a dad, and a Disney Institute teacher required a higher standard from someone who is preaching the highest standards.

Same on the local streets.

When you change what you see, what you see changes.

Dear son, this would have been impossible for me in my 20’s, 30’s and 40’s.

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