Who knew Pixar felt compelled to craft a movie after my book? Never saw that coming.
Mid life celebration is a glorious life milestone. It changed everything for me.
dad
It took 30 years to write the first sentence. Two years to write the book. Then two more years to get the guts to publish it.
No where in my rational mind can i picture thinking to myself, “Give yourself 34 years to write your first book.”
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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.
We spent hours here. And because of that, the shadow the clouds had cast on the entire lake and mountain side vanished to reveal an unexpected blue sky and stunning sunlight.
You change your world one day at a time. There is no other way.
dad
Improvement:
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) is “Disney’s Six Sigma for Beginners”. You can’t improve what you don’t measure. Need diverse team of CIP Advocates to influence growth in their departments.
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Got shut out at last year’s lottery. Yet somehow managed two multi-day reservations. A three-day in July i enjoyed before family arrived for annual trip. A four-night, season-closing res that we had to cancel due to eye surgery.
A healthy sense of urgency is the harvest for being fully present in the moment(s).
dad
Out of office alert at home…
Cultural attention to details.
Who owns it, maintains it, improves it?
Like, who’s personally graded for consistently excellent results?
It’s important to remember and easy to forget that the road to excellence has no finish line.
This exercise was for a tiny Galen detail that hundreds of people do hundreds of different ways.
And from the exercise, now hundred’s are doing it one way — The Galen Way.
Can you start to imaging the magnification and opportunity to creatively have fun addressing anything and everything that you do day in and day out — for your entire career.
The goal is always to have more employees, doing better things, more often.
Launch, learn, revise. Repeat.
It’s only impossible until you do it the first time.
Everything that is currently done the way it is done was once ‘never done that way’.
Organizational Creativity is the DNA of world-class organizations.
Nursing Education never turns down anyone with world class dreams.
Final note: OOO voice messages and OOO text messages need standards and expectations too.
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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.
A few hours ago on today’s first three-mile walk. During the second three-mile walk, the hat, neckerchief, and sweatshirt weren’t worn.
The easier it is to remember, the easier it is to do. Prioritize your priorities.
dad
One-hundred days of writing got me started.
A year of writing got me mildly confused.
A decade of writing solidified a scalable life.
A decade and a half of writing leaves me wanting for almost nothing.
How much more writing will be enjoyed before reaching nirvana?
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The card’s inside is as fun as it’s outside (above).
8-second video: Bananas flambé on Christmas Day (last night).
Fun needs to be a priority at home.
dad
Home is the one place in the world where we can, and should, count on peace. There are laws against disturbing the peace.
Peace is synonymous with rest. Hence, rest in peace.
Rest generally implies a slower pace, a less intense focus, relaxation.
Where does fun enter the ‘home’ equation’?
When?
How often?
Why?
Why not?
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