Priorities – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

My three prioritized work priorities

Three young men at a dinner table — The three caballeros. They met years ago in High School freshman Latin class. In a month they will make their fifth or sixth ‘family’ trip to Glacier together. Photo: Today at dinner time. The first time they’ve been together in six months. The whole Australia thing.

Some of the questions (about 20%) i asked my executive coaching client this morning.

What are your top three priorities in Priority order?
Mine are (1) have fun, (2) .think .differently, (3) lean into discomfort.
Having fun is paramount to an enjoyable life. Life is too short not to. #truth
.think .differently to avoiding insanity by expecting different results but doing the same thing i’ve always done.
Leaning into discomfort is about taking action: a.k.a. the 72-hour challenge karma. No one builds a reputation or gets results with “what they’re gonna do someday, maybe, (probably not)”.

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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.

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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If only, at home

Pile of frisbees next to a tree — 11 frisbees. Front yard.

What if your yard was big enough that you could throw a frisbee as hard as possible and it would never reach your neighbors yard? Even if you tried 500 times.

What if your priorities were prioritized?

What if they aren’t?

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2020 flashback

15-second 2020 video: As the camera pans you immediately see Pollock Mountain, Mt Siyeh, and Piegan Mountain.

5-second 2020 video: Acknowledged the news of Covid-induced, 30,000 Cast Member layoff. Had no idea what to say, so i kept it simple and gut-level.

These two videos remind me of the September 30, 2020 Oberlin (8,200′) summit.

In the moment, it felt scarier than the close (15′?) Grizzly Bear encounter at Granite Park – the one where i had to turn my back on the Grizzly and continued walking.

A rare – and a first – sunset summit.

Just a quick jaunt up and back. Shoot a couple client videos from the summit. Then boogie on down to the car.

Without explanation, i got lost on the summit and couldn’t find my way down.

Have written about it before and will spare a rehash now.

What’s noteworthy in this post is the spectrum of emotions captured on these two videos. And, the emotions never captured on video that evening.

Duplicate Update: Starting tomorrow all five blogs become an “unthemed-canvas” of sorts. The normal mind-body-spirit-work-home theme goes on hiatus until this “couple-week project” concludes.

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Iger’s brilliance

Let Bob Iger’s leadership pillars sink in.

This is worth a second look…

Creativity.

Technology.

Globalization.

Let me unpack this for you:

Ideas got us where we are. Technology is the new platform for our ideas. Delight the entire world with our Disney Magic.

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