Progress – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Steps to prioritization

Two MacBooks and an iPad being recycled in an Apple Store — What were the odds of Gary helping me at the Apple Store yesterday. Not zero but close. Delightfully surprised to catch up with him.

Steps to prioritization are simple. Priorities are filtered by:

Non-negotiable
Famous for
Business need

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Home progress

GoDaddy technical support email — In the past 72 hours i’ve completed a lot of “paperwork”. Most of it i call high-value completion. Some call it ‘big-ticket’ items. Both are accurate.

quest diagnostics medical appointment check in screen — Checked in from my car in the Quest parking lot. There for the annual blood draw. Walking into the lobby there was a line across the lobby, to the entrance door. Six people waiting to check in on the lobby device. Was in the process of opening my phone as i took a seat (obviously bypassing the lobby checkin) and i heard, “Jeffrey”. Shot up like a rocket and politely cut through the line blocking me.

movie theater seating chart — Tomorrow, Sunday, is a good day to see this movie. Didn’t grow up a Dylan fan. At all. But became one once i started listening regularly a few years ago during Glacier Summers. Want to see how big a rebel he was. i like good and decent rebels. i strive to learn as much as possible from them.

photo of a text thread — While you active work on “Your Life’s” in-box, you occasionally get brief moments of glorious feedback. Feedback that validates your desire (and belief) that what you do matters. Pearl is the mom of one of our Son’s key friends. Drew was here New Year’s Day (and night) with Renato and Skylar.

four men at mountain lake — Renato, Skylar, Chapin, and Drew (not in this photo) have been friends since ninth-grade Latin class nearly a decade ago. This was a 13-mile hike and the reason Cheryl took a break (and isn’t in this pic). Photo, August 2024, days before their epic train trip to Seattle.

nine hikers posing in the mountains — Three on the left: Skylar, Renato, and Chapin from a couple years ago.

18-second video: August 2024. Skylar, Renato, and Chapin spent eight days in Glacier and now they’re heading to see Drew in Seattle.

4-second video: Arriving Guests’ luggage. Context for this Amtrak location.

19-second video: Desk draw is spartan. Spartan means: Sparta had the warriors — the guys who went to bed early and drilled all day. They lived in bare rooms and didn’t get sick days or time off. A spartan life is a life of discipline and self-denial. Some people like it like that.

Daily chores.

The paperwork of life.

Driven to make the paperwork of life…

Simple.

Functional.

Important.

Easy.

Fun.

Done from anywhere, anytime.

Scalable.

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Thank you Friday

Our DI leadership chain of excellence has morphed to this model. Photo: Twitter screen shot.

Thank you Friday.

For what?

Being mindful and present to understand the significance of this 72-hour window.

Cheryl’s Disney retirement announcement yesterday
Traveled the world with Scott Milligan, Disney colleague who took his life today seven years ago
Tomorrow’s If Disney Ran Your Life podcast launch
Assorted other behind-the-scenes business progress
Our son returns to college in 48 hours after 6-week break

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Making progress helps

This is one way to organize. Come moving day, and moving day will one day arrive, how objectively easy will moving be?

Making progress helps us make more progress.

Not making progress inhibits progress.

Period.

Solution?

Find a million ways to stay motivated.

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It felt like it would take forever to see progress

Honda van — Much of what we purge is donated to Goodwill. Once a month we literally fill the van with stuff from a 38-year life together.

Every Tuesday (yesterday) i put as many recyclables and as much trash as i can into the two Orange County provided bins.

When i first began the 2017 purging process, it felt like it would take forever to see progress.

After 10 weeks, i can see it.

Slow and steady wins the race.

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