question – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Favorite questions, home

8-second video: it was time to leave Cinderella Castle at Disney’s Magic Kingdom when the parade music kicked in from the Frontierland Hub bridge. Guess who stayed a few extra minutes?

N, W, S, E: Needs, Wants, Stereotypes, and Emotions.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
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Some favorite questions:

What’s the best that could happen?

What was your childhood dream?

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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.

Rob asked, what’s your approach?

boy on a pogo stick — 1969, at my cousin’s house.

Writing five daily, differently-themed (mind, body, spirit, work, home) blog posts became a daily habit in 2009.
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“Have been subscribed to Rob Hatch’s weekly email for years. This is a rare reply to ‘social media’ posts. Today’s email he entitled “I Second That!”

I thought I’d weigh in on the topic of journaling, Jeff. Chris talked about his approach last Sunday.

I find immense value in the experience. It has helped me with everything from clearing my head at the start of my day to navigating profound grief to working through concepts and ideas.

Method? What method?”

He wrote on for additional paragraphs and finally asked, “What’s your approach to journaling?”

My reply…

Happy present moment (.hpm), Rob.

Have been faithfully reading your (and Chris’s) weekly email for years.

You both have a style that hasn’t bored me…(Seth and Hugh MacLeod are the other 2…btw, i read them for their content, not their style). Also, there’s something rare about your consistency and determination.

So you asked your audience about journalling, “What’s your approach?” Coincidently, and the only prompt compelling enough to get me to reply to you, is the 15-year milestone approaching on April Fool’s Day…

Started writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts on April Fools Day 2009. The goal was a 100-day self-imposed writer’s bootcamp. Before started, the personal record was two consecutive days.

Made it to 100 days and then discovered that stopping at 100 days seemed silly because of daily writing’s (journalling as you call it) transformational power.

On Monday year 16 starts. Five daily, differently-themed (mind, body, spirit, work, home) blog posts times 15 years is nearly 5,500 consecutive days; over 27,000 posts.

Insane.

Impossible.

Life changing.

Fun.

.hpm

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What obsesses you at home?

4-second video: Checking in on some ‘Dixie Chicks’.

7-second video: Every day, four fresh eggs.

What obsesses me at home? Prioritized priorities.
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What obsesses me at home?

Knowing what’s most important to me, in priority order.

Distractions, fear, blind spots and competing priorities had me unintentionally being unintentional with my priorities.

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When did your priorities peak?

When did your priorities peak?
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Q. When did your priorities peak?

A. Hit the plateau in 2013. Been on that same plateau ever since.

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And when you’re not?

15-second video: Taking a stroll through the old stomping grounds.

8-second video: So much “work” goodness yesterday. Working from anywhere. Met Jill at a keynote speech at DU (Deloitte University), in Texas, in 2018.

5-second video: Sent to an international client 2 hours before our call.

7-second video: Heard and then “inspected” a commotion while exiting The Hub. This is a Magic Moment that happens every day at Casey’s Corner opening. Been in place for years. The other tool is a ‘Take-5’, which is organic, unplanned and spontaneous, no script.

Disney strollers — There’s a story here.

13-second video: Used the secret Cast Member handshake to get this close-up access.

6-second video: 75 degrees at lunch time, late Winter. Hometown vibe.

What’s your life like when you’re not doing what makes you come alive?
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My two favorite places on Earth are my back porch and my front porch. Curiously, when asking others their favorite places in the world, can’t recall anyone saying it’s where they live. The places they describe are places that they visit once a year or once every so many years. It reminds me what life is like when you’re in your favorite place on the planet. Which is awesome, right!? Then it makes me wonder what life is like when not in your favorite place.

What makes you come alive when you’re not in your favorite place(s)?

Is once a year or once every couple years good enough for you?

And then the crazy questions…

Is it possible to feel like you are in your most favorite place everyday, day after day….for a lifetime?

Is it possible for once a year or once every few years to feel like a bullseye?

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