Home – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Chores and such

sprinkler hose — Dry winter. Getting a jump on priming some of the tropical plants for Spring. It’s February now.

5-second video: The group of seven wanted to do Small World. Who am i to say no?

Been focused on doing important personal and business paperwork.

Sprinkling in some yard work. Fresh air and movement is the same as recess as a kid.

Since adults are simply older kids, i never want to miss recess.

Note: The recesses are getting extended and more frequent. Why? The warm weather has us yearning to be outside in the dirt.

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Handwritten notes on a piece of paper — Things that add to your paperwork of life. Travel. United States column and Australia column. January was a busy ‘work’ month. Had many calls to coordinate.

Australian university info sign — Very first UniSC photo. Local and regional customs, mandates, laws, etc, can change from what you know at home.

Family of three posing on a college campus — Second UniSC campus photo.

College campus safety info board — Tenth UniSC campus photo.

Prepaid mobile phone plan receipt — A day later. Grateful each of our phones had e-sim capability. Looking back, it was way too involved to establish an Australian mobile account. We physically had to go to a store and work with an associate. It was cumbersome and clunky. But it had to get done.

Australian equivalent of 911 — Something as simple and routine as calling 9-1-1 is different here. Better know this before you need it. Australia’s 911 is 0-0-0.

AMP.

Means what?

Always More Paperwork.

Life’s In-Box.

It ebbs and flows as you ebb and flow through life.

It ends when you end.

Note: i’m banking on a plan that will minimize any in-box surprises for whomever is the Executor of my will.

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The paperwork of life

Post-it note with handwriting — Days later, still working to close my Old GoDaddy Legacy account. Multiple calls, on multiple days, to multiple people. A few emails too. The drag from ‘administrative friction’ puts unproductive strain on our time and psyche.

Oil leak on concrete under a car — Same unwelcome drag when one issue, car repair, becomes a series of domino-effect unresolved administrative chores. Pictured here is a new oil leak, after $3,600 (and three weeks). Will have to return to Action Gator Tire and begin again to ask, “Why is this happening? It wasn’t happening before i brought it to you. Please exceed my expectations, if possible.”

iPhone alarm clock setting — Getting eight hours of sleep is a daily ‘to-do’. It is never on a list though. It’s an automatic (atomic) habit. Actually got nine hours last night. Yay me. Day seven, Flu-A. Sleep is recovery medicine.

The cosmos.

Inexplicable.

Hard to articulate.

But i feel a cosmic energy shift in my commitment to minimalism.

Note: i envision less of everything is more of everything. It sounds paradoxical. Which is in my wheelhouse. So that feels like money in the bank.

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Dwell well

Mickey and Minnie, looking at the sunset, social media post — Can’t recall this image’s origin. The four words are gold. Wise.

What is your way?

Using home as an escape and refuge from work?

Using home as your energy and inspiration source?

Over-focus on putting your personal priorities in priority order.

Make you home your favorite place in the world.

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Never once, until today

6-second video: Always the shutterbug, since single-digit childhood.

concrete driveway hump — With no one, nor any cargo. This threshold is uncomfortable.

Never make your customers need nor beg for resolution.
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In disbelief at the finished product. In hindsight, no one from the concrete company was there to ensure the framing would yield the desirable (and avoid the undesirable) result. Also, no one from the drainage company showed up today. In hindsight, they should have, to avoid customer disappointment. We lived here for three decades and never once worried about vehicle clearance onto our property. Until today.

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